One minute you’re emptying the dishwasher or queuing in the supermarket, the next you’re a ‘cancer patient.’ It’s shocking.
Fear, disbelief, horror or helplessness can overwhelm you in this stark reality. Coping with cancer is a whole new world to deal with, while you still have to juggle family, work and more. When your child is diagnosed with cancer your world changes totally.
Mindfulness therapy is proven in cancer care, helping ordinary people like you. It helps with after-effects of treatment … nausea, pain and post-cancer fatigue, reducing isolation, anxiety, improving sleep and lifting mood. If you’re a carer it gives you respite from fear and worry, to mind your child, advocate for them, take care of the rest of the family.
Doctors recommend Mindfulness for people with cancer. Studies show it’s as effective as morphine, reducing pain by up to 60%.This allows patients to stay alert when they want to.
It is as powerful as antidepressant medications for stress and anxiety. Cancer patients using Mindfuless need fewer medications and report a better quality of life during and after Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy.
Mindfuless offers relatives and carers a useful way of coping .
Cancer and Fertility … Onco-Fertility
As cancer outcomes improve preserving fertility is an important consideration.
Options may include fertility-sparing surgery and treatment, ovarian suppression or transposition, sperm, egg or embryo freezing, and emergency IVF with a short protocol. Patients often have little time in which to make important decisions.
My clients get support, information and therapy in navigating this new landscape, facing the effects of cancer treatment, the impact on their relationship, sexuality, fertility and parenting prospects.
Coping With Cancer – Stress & Fear
I help clients coping with cancer deal with the fear factor, anxiety. Then to get the best from treatment: surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Using deep relaxation along with psychotherapy I help dispel fears, improve mood, encourage good sleep, improve appetite, as well as minimising side-effects of therapy. The recovery period is sometimes challenging, fraught, difficult, crappy, and you can even feel worse than ever. It is so good to hear my clients tell me how I have helped them recover their self-confidence and feel good about themselves after major surgery. My experience includes Oncology nursing and cancer counseling. Every client is different and my approach is broad and varied to suit needs. My therapy focuses on your whole life and well-being, physically and mentally.
I teach self-hypnosis so you can easily calm and relax yourself at any time, too.
Clients tell me that they feel relieved, calmer and supported after just one session; they report feeling safe discussing their concerns with me.
‘The hour flew by, I certainly never expected to be laughing during it when I was only days away from my op!’
“Relief from the nausea was the very first thing I really noticed, I began to feel more human from that point on, more in control of things.”
Who Can Benefit
If you are facing cancer I can help you learn how to deal with fear, get the most from treatment, minimise side effects, boost your immune system and find a positive mind-set.
Maybe your partner or someone close to you is coping with cancer and you feel daunted by it.
Family members can often benefit from a time-out session with me when they are coping with cancer in their circle.
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