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PRACTICING RADICAL SELF CARE

PRACTICING RADICAL SELF CARE

woman undergoing breast cancer treatment practicing radical self care

For some who receive a cancer diagnosis, it can feel like the beginning of a lonely, uphill battle. Not only are cancer patients fighting for their lives, but also their autonomy, authenticity and dignity as they choose how to proceed with treatment. Choosing can look like sticking with the “norms” of conventional medicine, or it […]

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ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CHALLENGING BELIEFS

cancer diagnosis

Regardless of how your beliefs are rooted, they will be challenged after you’ve been diagnosed with cancer. Being able to embrace the diagnosis itself, and what it means, might cause a massive upheaval in your life and shake your values to the core.   Change is inevitable, but it’s not a negative factor in terms […]

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WHAT TO DO WHEN LIFE TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN

What happens when life takes an unexpected turn?   Please read on to learn how one patient grappled with the news of her breast cancer diagnosis.   Melissa’s note:   “We were sitting around the fire at our family cabin reminiscing about the days when the kids were little and how they would toddle around […]

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