New Research: Yoga Can Help Improve Mood and Insomnia for Cancer Survivors

A nationwide study assessed the impacts regular yoga had on fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia among cancer survivors. After participating in four weeks of regular yoga practices, people reported less anxiety and fatigue than cancer survivors who did not practice yoga. The improvements in mood also aided with insomnia.

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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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Deborah Baker: Insights from a Caregiver

The very challenging first step is the private admission and acceptance that you need help.

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Daniel Heagerty: Cancer—Choosing Expansion vs Contraction

As humans we strive for certainty every day, every hour, yet now I must learn how to be with uncertainty, every day.

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Ron: A Terminal Diagnosis, an Integrated Treatment Plan, and a White Light

Through the sadness and fear something happened. I realized I wanted to live.

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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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Ruth Hennig: Cancer, Again: Acupuncture and Guided Meditation as Part of the Surgery Experience

When I got diagnosed with a second breast cancer earlier this year, I turned instinctively to acupuncture.

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Bonnie Gintis: Self Advocacy in Assessing Options

No one ever expected I would do this well and be alive and thriving this many years postdiagnosis.

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