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Survivor’s Guilt: Trying to Understand Cancer’s Mystery
I was walking down the hallway of the hospital and wearing a large grin. I had just received the results of my mammogram – still no evidence of disease (3+ years cancer free). My mood quickly changed...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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 on, we become very accustomed to our...
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Cancer Emotional WellBeing Tool: Triangle Breathing For Cancer Patients &...
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...
View ArticleQ 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...
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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...
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I’m Just Sayin…Cancer Emotional WellBeing
What are you just sayin’? What is it that guides you, moves you, rocks you with nurture? What is it that keeps you moving forward? What confuses you, panics you, saddens you? What thrills you, brings...
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Capturing Emotional WellBeing Within Life and Cancer: The Three C’s
Use the three C’s for empowering wellbeing. Whether caregiver or cancer patient, family member or friend, it is an understatement that cancer tends to interfere with emotional wellbeing. How can you...
View ArticleCancer Diagnosis, Continuing To Tan, What’s The Real Story?
In an article for DailyGlow.com, Angela Tague discussed a continuation of tanning despite a cancer diagnosis as reported in a recent article, Journal of the American Medical Association. It was...
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Cancer Patient, Caregivers, And Friends That Stop “Showing Up”
Relationships within cancer may change for both cancer patient and caregiver. Sometimes people you thought would be there for you just don’t “show up”. When this happens, its both disheartening and...
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PDQ Dying With Emotional WellBeing, Patients and Caregivers
How very essential, nurturing, human-being-like to ask a dying person “what do I need to know about you as a person to give you the best care possible?” Isn’t this important for all of us to...
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Cancer Patients, Caregivers, and Panic Buttons: Cancer Emotional WellBeing
Excited to be attending an event with a friend, I accidently pushed the panic button on the car/key fob. I’ve done this several times over the life of my elder car and never remember how to turn...
View ArticleCancer Fear: Afraid To DO What You Must!
When I work with cancer patients, caregivers, and those finished with treatment in psychotherapy, it’s not uncommon to hear: I don’t want to tell the doctor about this new bump, pain, side effect. I...
View ArticleCancer Patients and Caregivers Moving Forward Through Leaping Holiday Emotions
“This is not to be missed”. I noticed the sentence written by a famous author promoting another author’s new book, and it seemed a fitting message applied to holidays. How can we relax and celebrate...
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DROP FAMILY DRAMA, CANCER and HOLIDAYS
Choosing Holiday Peace Why is it that holidays just naturally seem to “bring in” family drama? Everyone is depending on you, as usual, to make the holiday special~ because after all you’re “cured” and...
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Who Doesn’t Deal with Disappointment?
Who doesn’t deal with disappointment? Disappointment shows up sometimes surprising us and sometimes not. Either way, the feeling is part of our human experience, at least for most of us. It’s the...
View ArticleAfter Treatment, Getting Back to Life as it Was Before Cancer, Yeah Right!
“What’s The Problem? Snap Out of It! You’re a Cancer Survivor!” Seriously, so you’re just suppose to go on like nothing happened and get on with your life? How does that work when You Had Cancer?...
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Cancer and Caregiving with Physical and Emotional Touch
“A gentle touch speaks volumes.” On a Dove chocolate candy wrapper I read, “a gentle touch speaks volumes”. Doesn’t it? Speaking with just as much volume is an emotional touch. You know the kind...
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