Deep Breathing: Finding Calm Amid Cancer Anxiety

by Mary Holder Naegeli

When a scary reality invades our lives, God invites us to meet anxiety with faith. Readers who are experiencing cancer, or know someone who is, will find Deep Finding Calm amid Cancer Anxiety, by Mary Holder Naegeli, to be real, uplifting, and reassuring. Mary’s six-month chronicle of her lung cancer odyssey invites us to breathe deeply and receive the gift of God’s tender love.

325 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2020

About the author

Mary's calling as a writer and pastor is to bring the Word of God to life for ordinary people. Her education and forty years of pastoral experience have given her an appreciation for the human condition and the heart-cries of women and men searching for God's wisdom. Through sermons, lessons, blogs, and now non-fiction books, Mary's writing has helped believers and questioners sort out complex issues and clarify how the Bible is relevant to real life in real time.

Mary holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University (Music), and Master of Divinity (Christian Formation and Discipleship emphasis) and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister residing in the San Francisco Bay Area where she serves as a hospital chaplain.

Reviews

[Carolyn Strong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as expected

I chose to read this book because it seemed to be about coping with lung cancer. It is tangentially about treatment for lung cancer but is primarily a book about religion.

[Eleanor Duffield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eleanor Duffield's review may be read on Amazon.com.