Dear Friend
We recommend these 7 Lifestyle Practices as core for your cancer self care. They are widely endorsed at major cancer centers as central to their integrative care programs.
Start by asking yourself what matters now in your life. That is key to all your other decisions about how to live, what treatments to undertake, and equally important what treatments not to undertake.
You can investigate the healing practices as you choose. What draws you? It may be improving your diet, reducing stress, sleeping better or getting more exercise.
The 7 Lifestyle Practices are deeply connected. Moving More, especially in nature, can help with stress and sleep. Sharing Love and Support helps everything.
These 7 Lifestyle Practices are all things you can do for yourself. They cost little or nothing. They are the heart of self care.
You don’t have to start all these practices at once. Listen to your inner wisdom. If one practice appeals to you, start there. No practice is healing if it doesn’t feel healing. Start with what matters now for you. Explore healing practices that feel nourishing. You can’t go wrong that way.
Wishing you well,
Michael
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Michael Lerner is co-founder of Commonweal and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, The New School at Commonweal, and CancerChoices. He has led more than 200 Commonweal Cancer Help Program retreats to date. His book Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer was the first book on integrative cancer care to be well received by prominent medical journals as well as by the patient and integrative cancer care community.
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