Finding Joy in Small Places: Supporting a Friend with Cancer, a Chronic Illness, or a Progressive Disability
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When a friend comes to you and says, “Ihave cancer”or “Ihave Multiple Sclerosis,”you don’tgenerally know what to say, how to help, or how to encourage them without minimizing their condition. Most of us feel very helpless when faced with such a devastating announcement. Finding Joy in Small Places: Supporting a Friend with Cancer, a Chronic Illness, or a Progressive Disability can help you find the words, gives you ideas on how to provide support, and how to offer encouragement especially when times get rough.In addition to providing support, this book will give you ideas on how to:adapt to life changes,learn to honor limitations,become a strong self-advocate,and find joy in small places.Through her experience with being on both sides –having been both the caretaker and the one needing support –Jan Mariet offers suggestions of what you can say and do for a friend who is dealing with cancer, a chronic illness, or a progressive disability, and how you can truly make a difference. Choosing joy is direct defiance against the despair and hopelessness that a life-changing condition can bring. Joy can be found in something as simple a tiny, defiant flower thriving amidst a pavement crack. Joy can even be found in the gravel and dust of everyday life if you are focused on finding it. Joy lurks in plain sight, waiting to be discovered. The most important piece to helping with a life-changing condition is to find joy in small places.