The Cancer Recovery Guide: Finding Your Way Back
Cancer Recovery With Integrative Support: Finding Your Way Back If you've just heard the words "you have cancer," the world feels like it has tilted sideways. You're drowning in medical terminology. Your body feels like it belongs to someone else. And the people who love you are carrying their own weight of fear and helplessness alongside yours. The Cancer Recovery Guide by Professor Kerryn Phelps AM meets you exactly where [...]
Bush Medicine: Australian Native Plants & Healing Guide
There's something grounding about connecting with the land you live on—and understanding how the plants around us have been used for healing, for generations, offers both comfort and perspective. Tim Low's Bush Medicine: A Pharmacopoeia of Natural Remedies, first published in 1990, is a beautifully illustrated guide to the therapeutic plants of the Australian wilderness. For anyone interested in integrative wellness and the deep roots of healing practice in Australia, [...]
Between Heaven and Earth: A Book for Finding Balance After Cancer
There's a moment many people reach after cancer treatment where conventional medicine has done its job—but you're still searching for something. A framework that sees you not as a set of broken parts to be fixed, but as a whole person needing care and balance. That's when Between Heaven and Earth by Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold often finds its way into cancer survivors' hands looking to understand integrative [...]
When You’re Having a Blue Day: Why The Blue Day Book Still Matters
There are days when everything feels too heavy. When you're not sure how much longer you can keep going. If you've walked the cancer journey—whether as someone living with cancer, a carer, or someone who's lost someone—you know those days intimately. The Blue Day Book, written by Australian author Bradley Trevor Greive, has helped millions of people navigate exactly those feelings. And we think it deserves a place in your [...]
3,000 “Coffee Breaks”: A Memoir of Resilience and Gentle Hope
When serious illness arrives, you often feel like you're walking alone. But the right cancer memoir can change that. James Wedgwood's 3,000 "Coffee Breaks" offers exactly what you need—a deeply human account of navigating diagnosis with vulnerability, commitment, and genuine humour. This cancer memoir doesn't focus on treatment protocols. Instead, it becomes a warm companion for anyone living with cancer. What Makes This Cancer Memoir Stand Out A veteran entertainer [...]
Integrative Oncology Book Review
An Evidence-Informed Guide for Cancer Treatment Side Effects This integrative oncology book review examines What's Your Plan? Manage Side Effects of Chemo and Other Cancer Treatments by Jillian Exton. The book is a practical, evidence-informed guide designed to support people navigating the often-challenging side effects of chemotherapy and other cancer treatments. Exton's resource stands out as both highly informative and deeply personal. Drawing on her own lived experience as a [...]
Defeat Cancer Like I Did Twice Book Review
Barry Thomson faced terminal double melanoma in 2003. Five years later, bowel cancer struck again. However, both times he chose a path few would consider: no chemotherapy, no radiation. This Barry Thomson Defeat Cancer book review explores how Thomson survived—and what he wants cancer patients to know about his unconventional choices. What Thomson Went Through Thomson's first diagnosis came with a terminal prognosis. Conventional oncology offered him chemotherapy and radiation. [...]
Book Review: From Cancer to Wellness – The Forgotten Secrets by Kristine S. Matheson
From Cancer to Wellness – The Forgotten Secrets by Kristine S. Matheson... is a holistic cancer wellness book written for anyone navigating cancer and seeking a path to improved health and wellbeing. Written by a stage IV melanoma survivor, it blends personal experience, natural health research, and practical tools into a comprehensive wellness handbook — one that supports the whole person, not just the diagnosis. About the Book Matheson presents [...]
Meditation: an in-depth Guide
By Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson Meditation is increasingly recommended for relaxation and stress management, to enhance the relationships and wellbeing, to increase performance in sport and business, for personal growth, to transform pain and to assist healing. From two leading Western meditation teachers comes this inspiring and comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to know how to meditate well. Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson explain how to build a [...]
Shattering the Cancer Myth
By Katrina Ellis Katrina Ellis' story is one that will amaze and encourage anyone who has found themselves affected by the harsh realities of cancer. A survivor herself and practising Naturopath for almost a decade, she writes with personal empathy and candour about her own experience of conquering cancer, and in doing so offers a perfusion of hope to her readers Shattering The Cancer Myth is not only a remarkable [...]
