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Women’s Cancer: Angelina Jolie, Preventive Double Mastectomy
Angelina Jolie, gorgeous woman she is, broke silence by courageously offering knowledge to all of us she chose a double preventive double mastectomy in an op-ed piece, New York Times. She lost her mother to ovarian cancer and Angelina … Continue reading
Cancer Emotional WellBeing Tool: Triangle Breathing For Cancer Patients & Caregivers
TRIANGLE BREATHING Triangle breathing is a great tool to use for effectively decreasing stress whether you are cancer patient or caregiver. You can use triangle breathing … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, breast cancer, cancer, cancer patient, Caregiving, depression, Emotion, emotional empowerment, emotional support, emotional wellbeing, featured, newly diagnosed, one step at a time, overwhelm, recurrence, resource, Strategies, strategies and tools, Stress Management, time out, tools
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Cancer Emotional WellBeing: Calming the Chaos
What if you heard what your own voice had to say…Listen… We aren’t so much schooled in listening to our own voice. Rather, early … Continue reading
Cancer: Is Survivor’s Guilt Similar to Grief and Grieving?
L. Marie Shadwick wrote a moving guest post about survivor guilt and how it affected her. I see many patients who experience survivor’s guilt, and have found it is not uncommon. To quote from L. Marie’s guest post, “Why was I … Continue reading
Cancer: Shock? Terror? Emotional Shutdown? It’s Okay,… Really!
Shock stops you in your tracks but you must deal with it. Terror stops you in your tracks but you must take time to feel it. An emotional shutdown, the kind where you feel completely numb, must be attended to. … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, breast cancer, cancer, cancer patient, Caregiving, couples, depression, Emotion, emotional empowerment, emotional support, emotional wellbeing, emotions, exhaustion, fear, men, newly diagnosed, overwhelm, prostate cancer, recurrence, Strategies, strategies and tools, Stress Management
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Sometimes Silence Is The Best Answer. Dalai Lama
Sometimes Silence is the Answer. Dalai Lama Questions: How do I get through this? Treatment Caregiving in addition to working and managing household Recurrence and Metastasis Anger, fear, worry, shock Being here for my kids Watching her go through this … Continue reading
Posted in After Treatment, Couples & Partners, Emotions, Strategies & Tools, Support
Tagged anxiety, cancer, cancer patient, Caregiving, depression, Emotion, emotional empowerment, emotional support, emotional wellbeing, exhaustion, fear, five minutes, newly diagnosed, overwhelm, Relationships, Strategies, strategies and tools, Stress Management, time out, tools
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Cancer Emotional Wellness Taking A Needed Time Out/10 minutes
Life situations and thoughts sometimes combine in a chaotic way bringing a smorgasbord of feelings such as… anxiety, stress, worry, fear, doubt, overwhelm, and… and… and… STOP IT! by taking a 10 minute time out. As a result, you will … Continue reading
Posted in After Treatment, Caregivers, Couples & Partners, Emotions, Strategies & Tools, Support
Tagged anxiety, breast cancer, cancer, cancer patient, Caregiving, depression, Emotion, emotional empowerment, emotional wellbeing, exhaustion, fear, newly diagnosed, one step at a time, recurrence, resource, Strategies, strategies and tools, Stress Management, time out
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Fearing The Flu: Double Whammy for Cancer
Turn on the TV, reports about flu!!!!! Read the newspaper, headlines about flu!!!!! Social Media, much talk about flu!!!!! Getting the flu is scary, particularly when you have an already compromised immune system. Scaring yourself about getting the … Continue reading
Posted in Emotions, News, Strategies & Tools, Support
Tagged anxiety, cancer, cancer patient, Caregiving, Emotion, emotional wellbeing, emotions, exhaustion, fear, fear of getting flu, flu, overwhelm, strategies and tools
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