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A customized guide for patients and caregivers-including survivor stories, mindset tools, and strategies drawn from Gallup's strengths psychology. You have cancer. Those three words can turn your world upside down. When Traci McCausland was diagnosed out of the blue at just 39, she wasn't interested in pretending to be a warrior. Her first Google search was, ""What if fighting cancer doesn't resonate with me?"" A business owner and mother of two young children, Traci felt her worlds collide. Instead of following a one-size-fits-all playbook, she drew on her work as a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and her background in psychology. Having trained over 5,000 people to live and lead through their natural talents, she realized she had a powerful resource to help her face cancer-understanding of her mindset and strengths. Surviving Cancer with Your Strengths is a practical, research-backed, and customized guide to navigating cancer in a way that feels natural and authentic to you. Grounded in Gallup's CliftonStrengths framework and supported by research from leading health institutions, this book helps you move through diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship with greater clarity, confidence, and hope. Whether you're newly diagnosed, in active treatment, or supporting a loved one through it, this book offers tools and inspiration including: Ways to identify your strengths and personalize your cancer experience Strategies for communicating with your care team, family, and friends Insights and ideas from over 30 cancer survivors who've walked this path Concepts like growth mindset, post-traumatic growth, mindfulness, and self-compassion Suggestions for caregivers to support their loved ones through a strengths-based lens

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""A thoughtful, insightful guide for anyone living through the chaos of a cancer diagnosis. Because no two paths are the same-and the tools to face yours are already within you."" -Dr. Jim Asplund, GALLUP(R) Chief Scientist, Strengths""In addition to treating the disease, it's important to address the physical, psychosocial, and emotional . . . needs of cancer patients and their families. Surviving Cancer with Your Strengths emphasizes this mind-body-spirit approach to healing."" -Richard L. Deming, MD, Medical Director of the MercyOne Richard Deming Cancer Center and Founder of Above + Beyond Cancer ""Traci combines her natural understanding for what makes people tick with her own powerful story. The perspective she offers becomes a vital thread stitched into the fabric of the strengths concept, elevating us all."" -Maika D. Leibbrandt, Workplace Scientist, Maika Leibbrandt Consulting""This book includes affirmation and practical strategies about how each of us is wired. Traci is astute and amazing, and she is giving us a really important guidebook for these vulnerable and precarious moments."" -JerLene Mosley, Strengths & Leadership Coach ""Surviving Cancer with Your Strengths is unlike any other ""cancer self-help book."" It takes concept and applies it to personal and practical action in a way that meets the soul and role of each person."" -Rosanne Liesveld, Liesveld Strengths ""The strength and vulnerability that Traci showed during her own cancer journey and now shares with others through this book are invaluable tools that will help patients and caregivers as they learn to navigate through their 'new normal'!"" -Margaret and coach Fran McCaffery, parents of youth cancer survivor and founding members of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program, University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center

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Traci McCausland is the founder of Follow Your Strengths(R) and provides training and keynote speaking on leadership, employee engagement, and strengths-based development. She helps organizations develop leaders, build better teams, and create great places to work. Since becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach in 2014, she has trained more than 5,000 people in over 100 organizations worldwide. In 2017, at the age of 39, Traci was diagnosed with breast cancer. This unexpected health challenge led her to reflect on concepts she teaches others-strengths, mindset, and authenticity. As the daughter of educators and a lifelong learner, she has remained engaged in the world of cancer survivorship. Traci now serves on the board of the American Cancer Society in Iowa and has traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for cancer survivors through the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the National Breast Cancer Coalition. She believes that facing a cancer diagnosis is hard enough without additional barriers to quality care. Traci holds degrees in management and organizations and counseling psychology from the University of Iowa and the University of Kansas. She lives in Waterloo, Iowa, with her husband, Kent, and their two children.

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