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  • The Smooth River

  • Finding Inspiration and Exquisite Beauty During Terminal Illness. Lessons from the Front Line
  • By: Richard S. Cohen
  • Narrated by: Rich Miller
  • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Smooth River

By: Richard S. Cohen
Narrated by: Rich Miller
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The Smooth River is the remarkable story of how a well-known public relations expert and her husband met her stage 4 pancreatic cancer head-on. With vigor and strength, they deployed all they and medicine had to offer.

But in contrast to narrow conventional approaches, the couple developed a far more expansive view of what strength means in response to a crisis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River. This clear-eyed, transcendent perspective was so vital that they wouldn’t let anything disrupt it - not cancer’s lethal march, not the strongest chemos and their failures to work, not the frequent episodes of severe pain, not how society expected them to think or act, not the process of dying itself.

The Smooth River demonstrates how to treat one’s life as bigger - and far more important - than any medical condition, any tragedy, any setback of any kind. With effusive warmth, refreshing candor, and practical detail, it describes how to personalize medical and life plans that affirm the value of a patient's being and guide their loved ones.

Its invaluable lessons show how to face the possibility of dying with sanctity and comfort, to view it as an opportunity for personal growth, finding inspiration and intense beauty in the experience - in life itself. There are lessons in the Smooth River approach for everyone.

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©2021 Richard S. Cohen (P)2022 Richard S. Cohen
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