Moving More

The science on exercise and cancer is the strongest of any of the lifestyle therapies.

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Managing Stress

Reducing stress is vital to healing. So is finding skillful ways to cope with stresses you can’t remove.

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Sleeping Well

There’s a lot you can do to improve sleep. It’s one of the most powerful and important healing practices.

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Creating a Healing Environment

Creating a sense of healing or sacred space in your corner or a room of your own depends deeply on what you find healing.

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Sharing Love and Support

Love heals. That is the simplest way to put it. Friends help us heal. Kindness heals. Kindness, they say, is love with its work boots on.

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Choices in Complementary Care

Choices in complementary cancer care goes beyond conventional care. Complementary care offers therapies and practices that “complement” conventional therapies.

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How to Integrate Your Choices

People who wisely choose their conventional and complementary therapies and who practice self care are likely to live better and longer than those who don’t. 

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Healing Circles & Retreats

The special power of Healing Circles and the Commonweal Cancer Help Program is that we can do this together, in a circle of equally dedicated participants and staff, and without any distractions from the outside world.

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Anton: Rediscovering Sleep

Anton explained he realized after sleeping so well the night before, that he had not had a full night’s sleep since moving to New York.

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Kay: A Cancer Recurrence Story

Now that she’s completed her chemotherapy, she wants to explore healing practices and therapies that will help keep the cancer from recurring.

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