Tag: Caregivers
Nutrition and Weight Management for Healthy Cancer Survivorship
Nutrition and exercise are two areas in which lifestyle changes can help you to reduce the risk of recurrent and new cancers and promote overall survival. Both optimal nutrition and adequate exercise will help you to achieve a healthy body weight. A Survivorship Nutrition Plan The optimal diet focused on cancer prevention emphasizes increasing your…
Cancer Caregiving: Rewarding, Fulfilling, Frustrating, Burdensome, or Spiritually Uplifting?
As I began writing this article, I started to think about the many caregivers I have known and what they have shared with me about their experiences as caregivers. The myriad of descriptors they used are only a few of the words in the title of this article. One caregiver said she had never had…
Self Care – Everyone Needs It!
Dealing with a major illness can be traumatic on all levels—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Similarly, recovery from illness also needs to happen on all levels. Self-care refers to simple practices that nurture the mind, body and spirit. As part of a healthy lifestyle, self-care practices can help boost resilience or one’s ability to “bounce…
Self Care – Everyone Needs It!
Dealing with a major illness can be traumatic on all levels—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Similarly, recovery from illness also needs to happen on all levels. Self-care refers to simple practices that nurture the mind, body and spirit. As part of a healthy lifestyle, self-care practices can help boost resilience or one’s ability to “bounce…
Living with Cancer-Related Sexuality Changes
As cancer survival rates increase, more attention is being paid to quality-of-life issues such as sexuality. Initially you may be concerned about lifestyle changes or limitations from cancer and do not focus on sexuality issues until you are resuming your life. Treatments and/or the disease itself can cause changes in sexuality, but health care providers…
Tomorrow’s Pain
It was the size of the needle that made the biggest impression on me. Cindy Sanderson, a clinical psychologist in her mid-40s, was delivering a lecture to the psychiatry service of the cancer hospital where I was training. She didn’t offer the usual research on this or that psychiatric issue; instead, Sanderson described coping with…