I Will Survive
Techniques For Coping
With A Health Challenge
by Corinne Laboon
Trade Paper: 6" x 9", 232 pp.
ISBN: 1-59663--521-5, $16.95
Special Introductory Price $15.95)
 

You have been diagnosed with a health challenge or learned that a loved one is facing one. Do you feel like you’ve just been punched in the stomach and can’t get your breath? That’s normal. But now it’s time to react. You have a choice. You can be like a porcelain figurine and crash to the floor in pieces or you can be like one of those inflatable punching bags with a clown’s face on the front that is given a swift jolt, rocks backwards, nearly hits the ground but bounces back forward again.

If you want to bounce back and take control of your life, this workbook is for you. It provides tools to help you face your health challenge head on.

What’s inside? Each easy-to-read chapter includes very brief, true stories that relate how the people next door and some well-known personalities faced health challenges – either their own or those of their loved ones — and survived. Reading the stories is the easy part. The chapters also include thought and emotion-provoking exercises that will help you find the strength, courage and determination to face your situation and find the inner self you may never even knew existed.

Whether you are age 5 or 85, there are exercises inside that will help you. There is a special section that addresses the emotional needs of young children and adolescents along with age-appropriate exercises for each group.

What’s it going to be?
Are you ready for the challenge?

About the Author:  Corinne Laboon lives what she writes. She experienced firsthand the feelings of helplessness that often accompany a loved one’s diagnosis when her husband learned he had a disease related to exposure to solvents and her sister struggled with breast cancer.
    Corinne believes that everything happens for a reason and that you just might find a diamond ring in that box of Cracker Jack. Her philosophy of life is that it’s similar to a theatrical performance; each life’s journey is made up of many "acts" filled with laughter, tears and surprises. When the curtain falls on one act, it will soon rise on another — and sometimes, you need to take an "intermission" along the way.
As a student at Duquesne University, she studied journalism and sociology and extensively researched the life and work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
    In two acts of her life performance, Corinne managed public relations programs for a non-profit organization and an international corporation. She continuously researches and writes about human emotions related to health and end-of-life issues.
Corinne lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, Walter, sons Steve and Jeff, and Shetland Sheepdogs, Amber and Devon.