Dr Cordelia Galgut is a practising BPS Chartered psychologist, an HCPC Registered counselling psychologist and a Registered MBACP senior accredited counsellor/psychotherapist. She is widely published on various aspects of psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, but since her breast cancer diagnosis in 2004 has often written about the emotional impact of breast cancer from her dual perspective as psychologist and breast cancer sufferer.

• Introduction. Why I have written this book. About this book. Moving on. What affects how we feel when we have breast cancer? Prognosis. Treatment. Myths about treatment. Other feelings we often experience. Some practical suggestions that might be helpful. Longer-term shock. The longer-term impact of trauma. Why can people, including those of us with breast cancer, often act as if breast cancer is easier to live with than it is? Relationships. Family and friends. Relationships with doctors and nurses. Getting emotional support during breast cancer. Is this fear of cancer/ breast cancer made worse by anything else? All cancers are hard to live with, but is there anything about breast cancer that is different? Why can having breast cancer make us feel bad about ourselves? Why can we easily feel this bad? Am I to blame? Long-term effects of treatment. Further reading. Finally. Please don't. Just diagnosed. Shock. It's not your fault. Talking to doctors and nurses about your diagnosis and surgery. Reactions of those around us. Telling people. After surgery. A final reminder. References.

'The book has exercises to develop an acceptance of thoughts and feelings, whilst the individual accounts validate the multitude of emotions felt by sufferers. This book has had glowing reviews and it is easy to see why; it has the tone of a good friend and the wisdom of a health care professional. Anything to get through the trauma of breast cancer is a must, and this book impressed me on many levels: An essential.' - Frost Magazine