Creating a Healing Environment Archives - CancerChoices



Creating a Healing Environment with Laura Pole, RN, MSN, OCNS

Laura Pole, RN, MSN, OCNS, senior clinical consultant at CancerChoices, shares an overview of creating a healing environment, one of the 7 Lifestyle Practices.

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Introducing the 7 Lifestyle Practices

These 7 Lifestyle Practices are all things you can do for yourself. They cost little or nothing. They are the heart of self care.

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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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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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How to Begin Anticancer Living

I started visualizing my role in my cancer treatment as a gardener of my body.

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Reducing Cancer Risks and Improving Outcomes

Addressing risk factors collectively as individuals, families, and communities, and also through public policy will have the greatest benefits.

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Why Timing Matters—for Eating, Sleeping, Exercise—and Cancer Therapies

Timing is basically about bringing us back to the natural rhythms of life.

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Ruth Hennig: Building My New Normal with the 7 Lifestyle Practices

The 7 Lifestyle Practices are so fundamental to overall good health that you’ll benefit from adopting them even if cancer weren’t your main concern.

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