Explore Dr. Louise B. Lubin’s resources, including videos, podcasts, guided imagery, books, links, and organizations for support, emotional healing, wellness, mindfulness, and survivorship.
Resources
Girl’s Retreat 2020
Guided Imagery
- 8 Tips to Improve the Dance of Communication
Learn tips to help you improve the outcome of those difficult conversations that occur when life gets stressful and effective communication is needed. - Your Safe Place
Listen to this guided imagery to allow your mind to go to your Safe Place to reduce stress and bring a sense of relaxation and peace. - Awakening the Healer Within
Connecting to your body’s own natural ability to heal and find balance is possible when you quiet your mind and body. This guided imagery tape will help you Awaken the Healer Within. - Experience Time in a Mindful Way
Time takes on a different quality and meaning after a diagnosis of cancer. Learn how Mindfulness can help you gain awareness of how to live your time in an expanded way. - Give Yourself the Gift of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is moving from the victim to the hero role to build a stronger and more healthy life. This podcast is influenced by Dr. Luskin’s, Forgive for Good.
Good Reads
- Managing Pain Before It Manages You, Margaret Caudill
- Healthy Mind Healthy Body Handbook, Sobel and Ornstein
- The Journey Through Cancer, Jeremy Geffen, MD
- Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Cancer Book, Susan M. Love, MD
- The Relaxation Response, Herbert Benson, MD
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner
- The Mindful Way Through Depression, Williams, Teasdale, Segal
- Forgive for Good, Fred Luskin
- Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat Zinn
- Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat Zinn
- Living Beyond Limits, David Spiegel, MD
- Chemotherapy Survival Guide, McKay and Schacher
- Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Gottman and Silver
- Marriage Rules, Harriet Lerner
- Intimacy After Breast Cancer, Gina M. Maisano
- Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson, PH.D.
- Just One Thing, Rick Hanson, PH.D.
- On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler Ross
- One Year to Live, Stephen Levine
- Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Joan Borysenko
Great Links
- New Harbinger Publications
- Health Journeys
- SOUNDSTRUE.COM
- LORETTALAROCHE.COM
- Hay House Publishing
- Tarabrach.com
- Selfcompassion.org
- Gainhope.com
- Conversationproject.com
Helpful Organizations
- www.cancer.gov
- www.asco.org
- www.youngsurvival.org
- www.cancercare.org
- www.cdc.gov/cancer/survivorship/
- www.oncolink.upenn.edu
- www.facingourrisk.org
- www.canceradvocacy.org
- www.livestrong.org
- www.healthfinder.gov
- www.cancer.net
- www.pltc.org
- www.cancer.org
- www.journeyforward.org
- www.cancersupportcommunity.org
- www.websiteplanet.com/blog/breast-cancer-survivor-resources/
Articles
Understanding Hope
Hope is a state of mind that is vital to life and not just dependent on the present situation. It results from your focusing on your goals and reflects your plans for the future. Test yourself on a “future scale” and explore your hopes and how you can work towards achieving them.
The Five Points of a Survivor Star
“Living As If Your Life Depends on It” was a talk by Dr. Neil Fiore that defined five vital qualities of a Survivor. Learn how to bring these powerful ideas to your daily life and change your self-talk to become a Survivor Star.
What is Guided Imagery?
Guided Imagery is a gentle, but powerful tool that focuses and directs your imagination. Read this introduction with some helpful tips and listen to the imagery on the website to aid in your healing journey.
The Ability to Rebound and Heal
Resiliency is adapting well in the face of adversity. It is possible even when you feel distress. Explore some of the behaviors, thoughts, and actions that you can learn as you move along the road to resiliency.
Can You Give Yourself Some Compassion?
Can you begin to accept yourself and increase your self- worth and ability to manage stress? Test yourself on a scale of self -compassion and learn some practical tools for your emotional well-being.
How Angry Are You?
Anger is a normal reaction to loss and grief. Learn how to ID the signs of anger and learn ways to effectively manage its impact on your health.
More Tips to Improve the Dance of Communication
There are some good steps to move any difficult conversation forward as well as ways to stop the music. Learn some tools to help improve the dance when you want to listen and be heard.
What’s “In” Your Mind?
Your mind is much more than your brain. Your feelings, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and thoughts all are facets of your mind. Explore these aspects of your mind to further your healing journey.