Practical support for families facing childhood cancer includes hospital preparation, clear medical communication, school coordination, mind-body coping, integrative therapies, sibling care, parent self-care, and advocacy.
Childhood cancer survivor stories inspire hope, teach coping skills, and build resilience for families and caregivers, emphasizing community support, emotional healing, and ongoing recovery beyond treatment.
Integrative healing in childhood cancer survivorship blends science and compassion through mind-body practices, supportive therapies, family routines, and connection to foster resilience and hope.
Integrative oncology supports childhood cancer survivors through mind-body medicine, nutrition, art therapy, mindfulness, and compassionate caregiving, fostering resilience and holistic healing beyond hospital care.
"Small Braveries" shares personal stories of resilience during childhood cancer, highlighting small acts of courage, the power of routine, vulnerability, hope, and mind-body practices to support families through treatment and healing.
This guide offers practical strategies for families facing childhood cancer, emphasizing hope, caregiver self-care, open communication, family resilience, trauma growth, and mind-body healing for holistic recovery.
Integrative therapies like mindfulness, yoga, acupuncture, nutrition, and sleep support resilience in cancer survivorship. Collaborate with oncology teams for safe, evidence-based healing.
Shutterstock, Andy Dean Photography Life events are the situations; the insight we gain is our story. What meaning do you make of the turning points in your life? Have you ever waited for something that seemed to take forever to happen or get resolved? And after all that waiting, the outcome wasn’t guaranteed or might not be what you expected? I’m still lying in bed 20 hours a day, waiting for the pain to lessen and my spine to heal on its own from two compression fractures. The neurosurgeon’s PA says to give it 12 weeks. It’s been almost 6 weeks since I fractured the second vertebra (bending over [...]
Did you make New Year's resolutions? Here’s one way to empower yourself to reach your goals. Resolutions and Intentions I wrote in my January newsletter that I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do set intentions. And then I wondered what the difference was and why resolutions didn’t work for me. Somewhere over the years, I stopped making resolutions to get more exercise and eat healthier and set self-imposed deadlines for work and writing projects. The goals felt more like something I should do or would do anyway, without a specific outcome, rather than what I wanted to work on. Instead, I started setting intentions for my emotional well-being and spiritual growth and that [...]
The fall equinox and a new moon in Libra invite us to find harmony and balance by letting go of thoughts that no longer bring peace and joy. Happy fall equinox for those of us in the northern hemisphere (happy glorious spring equinox for our southern companions). For one day (Sept 22), the earth was in perfect balance on its 23.5º axis with the sun pointed directly at the equator. Everyone around the globe had 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness. Balance. Global synchrony. Did you notice? What does balance even feel like? For me, it’s not an outcome to achieve (how would I know when I’ve found it?) but an ongoing [...]
