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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
Q And A With Niki
Q My wife had lung cancer, and passed away after terrible suffering. I feel lost now and so guilty… Please what can I do, I don’t have any medical insurance. A I’m so sorry to hear about your wife’s passing … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, bereavement, bereavement group, cancer patient, depression, Emotion, emotional support, fear, featured, grief, grief group, men, overwhelm, Relationships, survivor guilt
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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 EMOTIONAL WELLBEING TOOL: SHIFTING YOUR FOCUS WITH ZOOMING
SHIFTING YOUR FOCUS WITH ZOOMING Think of a camera. You can zoom in for a close-up or you can take a regular picture. Using the same idea, you can check in with yourself to see how things are going by … Continue reading
Cancer WellBeing Self Talk: What Words Are You Choosing?
What you tell yourself matters. If your thoughts are centered on “I can’t handle this” self-talk, or if you continually use the “I can’t handle this” phrase in talking with your family and friends, you are setting up a … 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
Q And A With Niki
Question: I had a question on twitter from a woman asking about uterine cancer and lynch syndrome (a genetic digestive cancer, can include further impact for women). Living in “the unknown” pops out dramatically within cancer and many other concerns … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, breast cancer, cancer patient, depression, Emotion, emotional empowerment, emotional support, emotional wellbeing, exhaustion, fear, newly diagnosed, overwhelm, qa-niki, recurrence, resource, Strategies, strategies and tools, Stress Management, time out, tools
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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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