Beyond Cancer Survival: Living a Life of Thrival, Samuelson Michael

Over sixteen years ago, Michael Hayes Samuelson received a phone call that forever changed his life. Hello, Michael. This is Dr. Marcus. No good news. You have cancer. Those three words-you have cancer-echoed in his brain.

Okay, now what? For Michael, an internationally known and respected health educator and motivational speaker, his health message took on more urgency. The diagnosis was a penetrating wake-up call yanking him into menacing and mysterious territory.

He was a man with breast cancer, a stranger in a strange land.

In the beginning, this uninvited-and mind-numbing-voyage was distorted by a cracked prism of muted and blurred colors, only to burst forth with the passage of time to reveal both a heightened internal focus and an intense desire-an urgent need, commanding him to leave the comfort of the couch, put on his boots, pick up his trekking poles, and explore the outer reaches of the planet, on foot.