Coloring Outside the Lines - by Jan Adrian (Paperback)

About the Book

Jan describes the life experiences that taught her to trust her intuition, be curious, and trust the self-healing ability of her body. She identifies the healing attitudes and modalities she used to thrive with cancer for more than 30 years.

Book Synopsis

Jan's memoir describes the life experiences that enabled her to survive and thrive with cancer for more than 30 years. Early in her life she learned to trust her intuition, be curious, and trust the self-healing ability of her body. She describes the many strategies she used for healing, and how she learned that everything that washed up on her beach could be used for the growth of her soul. The needs she felt as a cancer patient motivated her to found the non-profit, Healing Journeys, and produce the Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving conference that inspired over 25,000 people over a period of 25 years. While living and surviving are important, to thrive is our greater potential that is achievable when we resist being restricted by fear.

Review Quotes

After a lifetime of navigating illness while staying vital, Jan Adrian offers much hard-earned wisdom in her brave and honest memoir. Jan is a wise and steadfast guide who never fails to penetrate trouble for the life-giving medicine at its center.

There are many books on the subject of cancer and the personal journeys that people go on in response to the diagnosis. But rarely is a book written with the emphasis on living with cancer and not fighting with it. Indeed, I think the wisdom in this approach is profoundly needed by all of us, since, in fact, we are all threatened by mortality in one way or another. As Jan writes, "the trick is not to let finite events eclipse the infinite." The book is an expression of a deeper truth, one that has taken courage and conviction to attain, and clarity of purpose to be able to share in a way that will produce the desired effect in the reader - inspiration. We can all be grateful that there are people like Jan who show us the way, heroes among us, pointing out the hidden blessings in each challenge that we face while alive. Jan teaches us that while living and surviving are important, to thrive is our greater potential that is achievable when we resist being restricted by fear. This requires that we evolve in our thinking and response to discomfort. In that respect, this book is a gift that will help you find your own way.

Jan's life story - especially how she has managed her diagnosis, treatments, recurrences, and "outside the lines" integrative therapies - will inspire anyone touched by cancer. She shows us how cancer can be managed while living a full, robust life.

Jan is an expert at coloring outside the lines and this skill has proven time and again to be the reason she is still here teaching and inspiring the rest of us to do the same. Her vulnerability in offering up this memoir helps folks realize how deeply biography impacts biology.

Jan Adrian brings us intimately into her story more than thirty years after her encounter with multiple relapsing breast cancer. The greatest enemy of anyone with cancer is fear. Jan describes how she transcended fear and went on to co-exist with life-threatening illness.

In Coloring Outside the Lines, Jan Adrian empowers readers with her wonderful wisdom, learned by navigating a life of ongoing challenges and chronic cancer. She teaches us the power of following our own unique path, trusting our intuition, and finding our courage and grounding through friendships and spirituality.