Folks with cancer teaching the rest of us about living a better life.

Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer is a collection of the stories I heard from women facing life’s ultimate sink hole, and doing it with grace, humor, moxie and joy. I organized the stories into these eight lessons:

• The Healing Power of Joy
• Gratitude Eases Pain
• Laughter Lightens Tragedy
• You’re Terminal Too, Embrace It
• When to Fight, When to Flow
• Art Restores
• Relationships Are Fluid
• Channel Sorrow Into Service

The book includes 100+ pages of full-color photographs by Christina Shook, author of Chicks on Bikes.