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  • Is Fear Impacting Your Healing Journey?

    Is Fear Impacting Your Healing Journey?

    In the 2019 Sundance awarding-winning movie The Farewell by director Lulu Wang, there is a powerful scene where the uncle expresses a common Chinese philosophy about cancer: “People don’t die of cancer — they die of the fear.” This dialogue occurs between the granddaughter of the diagnosed grandmother, and her uncle. The family has chosen…

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  • EMDR and Cancer Trauma: A Tool To Support Healing

    EMDR and Cancer Trauma: A Tool To Support Healing

    The relationship between trauma and cancer can go both ways. Trauma can be a long-time foundational stressor which kicks in the cancer process. Other times, a cancer diagnosis can create its own trauma. A well-established psychological tool called EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) Therapy has been shown by several studies to help ease cancer…

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  • The Relaxation Response: What It is and How to “Turn It On”

    The Relaxation Response: What It is and How to “Turn It On”

    In honor of “National Relaxation Day” (yes, there really is such a thing), let’s take a look at an amazing phenomena called the Relaxation Response and just how easy it is to “turn it on” inside your body for ultimate healing! What is the Relaxation Response? Basically, the “Relaxation Response” is the exact opposite of…

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