Comments From Readers:

"A Time for Healing is a moving description of one woman's - and all women's - bewilderment, sadness, fear and courage when facing treatment for breast cancer. In her collection of poems, Valerie Hodge-Williams has eloquently depicted the steps of her emotional journey. The reader who has not shared this experience comes away with a new understanding of how women feel when faced the complexities surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer."
-Lauren A. Schnaper M.D.

"My patients tell me that A Time for Healing has been a source of strength and a well-spring of advice about feelings surrounding a breast cancer diagnosis. The book tells women and their families they are not alone."
-Patti M. Wilcox-Honnold, RN, CS, ANP Nurse Practitioner

"Every breast cancer survivor will say 'I have been there.' A Time for Healing should be included in the library of every breast center."
-Marsha Oakley, President, Arm-in-Arm (support organization for women diagnosed with breast cancer), Timonium, MD

"I was able to laugh and cry with the poetry, but most importantly, I was able to realize all the emotions I had experienced during my illness were normal - that I was not alone."
-Stephanie Evans, breast cancer survivor

"The prose and poem history of your encounter with cancer is powerful and touching because it does ring so true ... and because it does carry the reader emotionally along. When I finished reading it, I wept ..."
-Judith Viorst, Author