Hi Folks - I'm delighted to kick off the People Soup Summer Series of Live Virtual Podcast Recordings with the launch of Dr Sarah Swan's book - Coping with Breast Cancer - how to navigate the emotional impact throughout your journey.

"In this book a clinical psychologist who is also a breast cancer survivor describes the cancer journey and adds evidence-based psychological techniques to help us understand explore and deal with the various emotions we might experience, written in a way that you can select the approach that best fits with your personal experience and priorities." Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, Doctor and breast cancer survivor, Oxford, UK.

        "If you have been affected by breast cancer or know anyone who has, I can't recommend this highly enough. You won't find a more helpful, moving or compassionate book on the subject." Dr Joe Oliver, Contextual Consulting.

Tickets are free - so please do Join the guest list now as space is limited. 

Once you join the guest list,

• You will receive your link to join the event on Wednesday 19 July.
• Each guest will also be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a free signed copy of Sarah's book. We'll announce the winner at the end of the live episode.
• After the event - you'll also receive an exclusive link to the video of the recording, which will not be on general release.
  

About Sarah

Sarah is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who worked in the NHS for 25 years, culminating in being Head of Psychology for a large London Borough. She is trained in a number of therapeutic approaches including ACT and EMDR. Sarah has been on the board of directors for ACP-UK and continues to support the organisation in a consultancy role.

Sarah now works in independent practice, offering psychological therapy to adults with a range of mental health and addiction problems, and has a number of associates who support her in this work. In addition, Sarah works as an expert witness for the family courts. Sarah also works with businesses and organisations in relation to employee wellbeing, bringing evidence based psychological formulation and interventions to the workplace.

About Sarah's book

Current statistics suggest that between one in seven and one in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. Being diagnosed with breast cancer can leave you feeling anxious and depressed, fearful of the treatment to come and concerned about your mortality. The treatment itself can have a significant impact on your wellbeing as you are faced with marked changes in your physical appearance, sense of self and energy levels.

There is lots of information available regarding cancer and its treatment, but little to help you cope with the emotional fall out. There are some excellent support services available but access to high quality evidence-based psychological interventions to help you cope is limited.

This self-help book is the first of its kind: written by a highly experienced clinical psychologist, who has herself gone through the devastating impact of breast cancer, drawing from the evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach to provide you with essential coping skills. This book takes you through what your journey may look like through diagnosis, treatment and recovery, and explains the ACT skills that can help you to cope with the emotional impact of this disease and its treatment. The ACT approach enables you to respond differently to the painful thoughts and feelings that will arise during your cancer journey. Rather than fighting with them, the skills in this book help you to acknowledge and step back from your difficult thoughts and feelings so that you can focus on living your life in a way that will positively impact your physical and emotional wellbeing.

You can pre-order Sarah's book here and use the code ACP20 at the checkout to get a 20% discount too.

What to expect when you join the live conversation

The event will be recorded. If you could keep your microphones on mute that would be appreciated. 

We'll chat for about 45 minutes and then there'll be 10 to 15 minutes for some of your questions. 

You'll find out a bit about Sarah's career and her purpose in writing this outstanding book. We'll also talk about the workplace, and how we can support and talk to colleagues who have received a diagnosis of breast cancer. 

The audio from the event will also be part of a future People Soup Podcast episode - on all the usual platforms.

About People Soup
People Soup is an award-winning podcast where we share evidence-based behavioural science in a way that's practical, accessible, and fun to help you glow to work a bit more often.

You can find People Soup wherever you get your podcasts or here on captivate.fm

This event is part of the People Soup Summer Series. The next event is on 28 July from 10:00 to 11:00 and our guest will be Dr Richard MacKinnon who'll be talking about Loneliness at Work - come and hear about Richard's research on how we can all Connect and Thrive - book your free ticket here.

ACT Train the Trainer - if you're keen to learn how to deliver ACT in the Workplace I'm delivering a Train the Trainer series of virtual workshops in April and May next year in partnership with Contextual Consulting. You can find all the details here.