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AFTER SHOCK: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing - A step-by-step guide to help you navigate your way Paperback – October 1, 2006

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AFTER SHOCK: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing is a user-friendly step-by-step guide, providing encouragement and practical advice to help patients and their families organize all aspects of their cancer experience-specifically: Medical choices: How to enlist support; get the most out of doctor appointments; make informed treatment decisions based on both established Western practices and complementary and alternative therapies. The overwhelming mountain of paperwork: How to track medical reports, test results, billing, insurance, personal notes and information about cancer. A personal "wellness program": How to select healthful practices such as relaxation, guided imagery, exercise and diet to support lifestyle changes; using the mind, emotions and spirit to contribute to physical healing. Endorsements include: MDs-Christiane Northrup, Larry Dossey & Marc Sheldon Feldman; writers-Marian Woodman, Rosalyn L Bruyere & Jason Elias; others with personal experience of cancer. Born and educated in Scotland, Thomson now lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State where she is founder and director of ROOTS & WINGS. Thomson created Roots & Wings-Guided Imagery and Meditations to Transform Your Life, an audio with music by Richard Shulman (1996) and a companion workbook (1999).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Roots & Wings (October 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1928663052
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1928663058
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #9,860,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #14,333 in Cancer (Books)
- #37,462 in Mental & Spiritual Healing
- #437,105 in Medical Books (Books)

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Puja A. J. Thomson, director of Roots & Wings in New Paltz N.Y., offers holistic counseling, interfaith ceremonies, and workshops on various health, wellness, and spirituality topics throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. Thomson made the U.S. her home in 1978, but was born in Scotland and educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. She has traveled widely in Europe, India and Sri Lanka, where she explored spirituality and meditation. Thomson continued training in the U.S. in hands-on energy healing to expand her understanding of an inclusive holistic approach to life; this is reflected in her writing.

In 1994, she was ordained as a Minister of Natural Healing by Rev. Roslyn L. Bruyere in the Healing Light Center Church which honors all pathways to the divine and holds the belief that true healing lies at the crossroads of science and spirituality.

In her most recent book, “Track Your Truth: Discover Your Authentic Self,” Thomson encourages you to use the skills of a detective to discover what is working and what isn’t working in your life. This carefully created, step-by-step book shows you how to follow the clues of your body, mind, emotions, and spirit, so that you can focus your own energy, create useful new habits, and live your truth.

Previous works include a revised version of “After Shock: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing,” “My Hope & Focus Cancer Organizer- Manage Your Health and Ease Your Mind,” and “My Health & Wellness Organizer- An Easy Guide to Manage Your Healthcare- and Your Medical Records.” Thomson also introduced the “Roots & Wings for Strength and Freedom” CD and companion Workbook with music by Richard Shulman.

For further information check her out of YouTube under "Puja AJ Thomson"

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Diane from Woodstock

nobody wants this

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2013

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Unfortunately, if you have cancer, you need it. But who can concentrate at a time like this? An important resource.

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Jeffrey A. Falk

A Must Have when Facing Catastrophic Illness

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2008

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I have completed reading this easy to follow instructional manual and I think it is great. It is more than just a book. The text is a how to survive the medical maze everyone faces when confronted by a serious illness. J. Falk, RN, MS, CLTCO

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Laura R. Rodsen

After Shock: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2009

If you are diagnosed with cancer or for that matter any serious illness, therapist Puja Thomson's easy-to-read practical book After Shock: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing will first help you face the shock and pain of your diagnosis. It will then give you the tools how to deal with all aspects of the experience, ranging from helpful information culled from the practice of others, questions to ask your doctor, how to organize the overwhelming amounts of paperwork, and how to create your own healthy "wellness program".

The author was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. She couldn't find a really comprehensive book for patients so she began to write it herself at the suggestion of Barbara Sarah, the Founder of the Oncology Support Program at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, NY. Throughout the book, you'll see many different perspectives besides Puja's. There is no one right way for everyone and Puja empowers you to make your own choices based of the knowledge and information at your fingertips. Thomson offers ways to use your mind, emotions and spirit to enhance you're healing again with examples from others. For example Esther said, "I notice if my mind moves into the old habit of focusing on what I don't want, and then I gently redirect it." By reading this book, you will understand that breast cancer is recoverable and your active involvement in your healing decisions and attitude is central to a healthy outcome.

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017

Puja is a committed and heart-centered healer. After Shock and her other books will no doubt give you important information and will help to reassure you during difficult as well as other times.

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Sarvananda Bluestone

Miraculous self help book for those facing cancer

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2007

There is simply nothing else like Puja Thompson's Aftershock. It fills a need that anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer will recognize.

Those of us who have been told that we have cancer experience a shock unlike any other. Each of us goes through it by ourselves no matter how much support there is around us. And, yet, there are common experiences that all of us have and, until now, there have been few means of support. Puja's book gives that support.

From the time that a person is diagnosed to the time that they make decisions as to treatment to spiritual support Aftershock is a miraculous self-help book for those of us with cancer and their loved ones. Puja provides a step by step support.

There are few times when a person feels more vulnerable than when they have been told that they have cancer. At that time, even the most critical and well-read of us will revert to helplessness and throw all of our trust in the particular physician that we happen to see. Puja shows us the need to visit a physician or oncologist with a friend or relative--never to do it alone. I wish I had that insight when I had my experience with cancer.

Most of us have little access to alternative forms of treatment. Without grinding an axe Puja gives us all kinds of places to go to see for ourselves. She provides some methods in the book. I wish I had that guide when I had my experience with cancer.

Puja shows us how to ask the right questions when visiting a health care practitioner. She shows us how to get the most out of health related appointments. She shows us how to organize paperwork, medical reports and even financial records related to the illness. I wish that I had that guide when I had my experience with cancer.

It may sound perverse but people who are diagnosed with cancer are luckier now with Puja Thompson's book. It deserves to be in every hospital, every cancer patient's home. It is a milestone.

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Cynthia H.

After Shock:Review

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2009

This is a unique and important book--for those diagnosed with cancer, those who are close to someone diagnosed with cancer, or even anyone who would like to learn to become more empowered as a patient under doctor's care. Thomson's practical organization and step-by step guide helps a patient manage everything from the emotions and fears of a diagnosis to bills and medical coverage. Her innovative new approach of creating a "healing team" eases the burden of the patient, and gives concerned family members and friends a useful way to show support and help guide their loved one through a health crisis.
"After Shock" is a beacon of light in a dark sea of health options and treatments that can often overwhelm a patient. Thomson patiently explores both alternative holistic and traditional western medical treatments, urging those diagnosed with cancer to become informed, and listen to their inner intuition. A veritable treasure chest of resources--including community support groups, tools for medical exam preparation and management, and advice for forging a powerful and healing mind-body connection--this beautifully written book can help patients get the most of their care, as well as help healthcare professionals, or loved ones, be supportive, compassionate guides to those who are on a journey from illness to healing.

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