Intimacy Is Healing with Dean Ornish, MD

CancerChoices advisor Dean Ornish, MD, discusses how the power of relationship and connection can be harnessed to nurture healing.

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The Healing Power of Love with Brian Bouch, MD

CancerChoices advisor Brian Bouch, MD, and CancerChoices co-founder Michael Lerner discuss the healing power of love in its various manifestations.

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Offering Guidance Without Prescription with Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA

Janie Brown, co-founder and executive director of the Callanish Society, and Michael Lerner, co-founder of CancerChoices, discuss the goal to meet people where they are when offering guidance.

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Palliative Care as an Approach to Life with BJ Miller, MD

CancerChoices advisor BJ Miller, MD, discusses what palliative care and its philosophy offer to us as we cope with the challenges of the COVID pandemic.

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Our Options in Responding to a Cancer Diagnosis with Wayne Jonas, MD

CancerChoices advisor Wayne B. Jonas, MD, discusses our options in responding to cancer: by waging a war against it, or by focusing on healing.

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Meet the Practitioner: Dr. Diljeet Singh

Integrative gynecologic oncologist Dr. Diljeet Singh and Christine Mineart, program director of CancerChoices, discuss health insurance challenges, cancer and exercise research, navigating integrative cancer care, and tips for finding moments of mindfulness.

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Cherie Sampson: “every.single.one”

Dance as a healing practice is an important throughline in the performance, as it was during my treatment and recovery.

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M. Patricia Díaz: Overcoming Stage 4 Cancer as a Teen and My Remission Journey to Wellness

When mom took me to her doctor, I was barely able to breathe. I looked at my lungs on the X-ray—one was white and the other black. Shortly after, I was surrounded by doctors and nurses, family and relatives. I had no idea what was happening.

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Healing and Curing

In Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, Michael Lerner describes both healing and curing cancer, suggesting how they differ and how they relate to each other. This post draws from the second chapter of his book.

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Choices in Healing

What is the true meaning of healing? Healing is movement toward wholeness.

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