Our Journey With Prostate Cancer : Empowering Strategies for Patients and Families

"Your spirit is your most important personal weapon in the battle with cancer!" Writing from the unique perspective of an oncology social worker, a holistic psychotherapist, and the wife of a patient with high-risk prostate cancer Judith Desjardins shares the intimate details of their journey and the empowering strategies she devised to turn a pessimistic prognosis into improbable, positive, and hopeful results. This book is a firsthand picture of the emotional and psychological toll that prostate cancer takes on patients and their loved ones, and shows how it affects them on the inside-the mind, emotions, and spirit. It is her firm belief that understanding and treating these dimensions of the disease as well as the body, in a holistic approach,can lead to a better prognosis for the prostate cancer patient-and that it can also prevent family caretakers from developing their own medical problems due to stress.

Awards for "Our Journey with Prostate Cancer: Empowering Strategies For Patients and Families", by Judith Anne Desjardins, LCSW, BCD, MSWAC

Reader Views 2014/2015 Literary Award Winner
First Place, Category: Body, Mind, Spirit

Reader Views 2014/2015 Literary Award Winner
Reader Views Award For the Best Body/Health Book

The 2014USA Best Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist, Category: Health/Cancer

The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist.

The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Honorable Mention Winner, Category: Health,

The 2015 Pacific Book Awards – Award-Winning Finalist, Category: Self-Help

2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards, Winner, Category: Cancer

2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards, Winner, Category: Men's Health

The 2015 International Book Awards, Winner, Category: Health: Cancer