Cancer Survivors Network

50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

Handbook for Mortals offer practical, reasuring information on topics such as:coping with the uncertainty of serious illness, orchestrating support from family caregivers, case managers, nurses and doctors; getting the most out of conversations with your doctor or your loved one's doctor and many more useful tips.

Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Some turn to marijuana. But does it really work when other treatments fail?brbrMarijuana as Medicine? provides patients - and the people who care for them - with a foundation for making decisions about their own health care.