What Matters Now: 7 Healing Letters to a Friend with Cancer by Michael Lerner

Healing is different from curing. A cure takes a disease away, never to return. Healing is a movement toward wholeness—physical, emotional, mental and/or spiritual. Healing can take place at any point in the cancer journey.

What Matters Now: 7 Healing Letters to a Friend with Cancer is a personal and practical guide born from over 40 years of intimate counsel with people facing cancer. Written by Commonweal founder Michael Lerner, these 7 letters distill what he’s learned from sitting with more than 2,000 souls navigating a cancer diagnosis, and from his own encounters with life-threatening illness.

It’s a companion, the kind of book you want on hand when a friend tells you they’ve just been diagnosed—something you can give them that says: “You’re not alone. Here’s what matters.”