Beverly Kirkhart

Beverly Kirkhart's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Author, My Healing Companion and co-author, Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul; President and founding member of the Breast Resource Center of Santa Barbara, along with Dr. Susan Love.

More About Bev . . .
Beverly Kirkhart knows what it means to live everyday to its fullest. After being diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago, she overcame the loss of a business, bankruptcy and divorce. Drawing on her own experience with professional and personal setbacks and her ability to create opportunity from adversity, Beverly delivers a powerful message with a personal touch. In weaving her life story amongst the other inspirational and courageous stories found in Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul, she identifies ways a person can stay strong, productive and upbeat during challenging times and beyond.

• How to Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks:
  

  Five steps to survive and thrive after life challenging situations….These proven steps teach us how to look at adversity as an opportunity

• Caregivers with Compassion…Healers with Heart:
  

  Emerging strategies of loving and compassionate ways medical professionals can combine medical science with supportive therapies.

• Take the “Why Me?” Out of Cancer:
  

  Five ways survivors can learn to cope with the emotional aspects of a cancer diagnosis…These survival tools can help us reclaim our lives.

• Cancer: Life’s Unexpected Teacher:
  

  Survivors can discover the opportunities in cancer to reclaim their life and develop new outcomes and expectations for themselves.

• Healing the Soul During and After Cancer:
  

  An inspirational presentation for survivors, caregivers and medical professionals designed to help them discover practical ways to cope, stay strong and connect with their inner strength.

• Celebrating Our Surviving Spirit:
  

  We don’t know what life will bring us. At anytime we could suddenly fall victim to an enormous challenge finding ourselves overwhelmed with despair. In this inspirational program, Beverly identifies tools to help us create a surviving spirit to live life with a newfound appreciation, gratefulness, and respect.

• Empower Yourself Through Words©:
  

  An inspirational interactive journal program designed to help survivors explore their feelings – from fear to victory – associated with a cancer diagnosis and treatment.

• Empower Yourself Through Words© Train the Trainer
  

  Educational program teaches medical professionals key skills to help patients direct their emotional healing through writing, and to sustain this inventive therapy concept over time.

Your talk was extremely well received the attendees thought it was one of the best programs we have ever offered. We agree!Your talk was extremely well received the attendees thought it was one of the best programs we have ever offered. We agree!

---Pam Whitcomb Development Director
Scripps Foundation

Beverly’s visit was a blessing to us.  We had asked her to convey an inspirational story and she did much more.  She did her research, knew her audience and was a delight to work with.  I hope our paths cross again some day.

--- Tracy Holder, Executive Director
Cancer Center for Healthy Living, Inc.

We want Beverly to come back and do another workshop.  She is a dynamic speaker who comes from an experience similar to the participants.  And she is really funny.  She uses her sense of humor to put people at ease.

--- Anne Debecco, Roche Oncology, Ohio

After reading My Healing Companion, then witnessing Beverly Kirkhart interacting with an audience of cancer patients and their families, I realized that she is able to fill a void that we as oncologists cannot.  While we can treat the disease, Beverly brings tools to treat the spirit.

--- Donald R. Fleming M.D. Medical Center of Vincennes, Indiana