What Illness Teaches You

A serious illness, a tumor or cancer changes everything at once. Beside the treatment there is another part, one nobody else can do for you: how you meet what is happening inside you.

These eight chapters walk through it step by step. You connect with the illness, accept that it's here, make room for what you feel, talk with it, understand what it teaches, release it, fill the space with love, and find gratitude.

This walks beside your medical treatment and never replaces it. Keep your appointments and follow your doctors' care. Nothing here says you caused your illness, and nothing here asks you to heal it alone. Go slowly. On a hard day, one paragraph is enough.

If it becomes too heavy, you don't have to carry it alone. In an emergency, call 112. Someone listens at any hour on 142 in Austria, 0800 111 0 111 in Germany and 116 123 in Slovenia.