Symington Cancer Conference Spotlight: Diana Lindsay on Listening Inward and Healing
In her powerful and heartfelt presentation, Conversations with our Inner Healers and Guides, Diana Lindsay invites us into the deeply personal journey she and her husband Kelly walked through cancer, healing, death, and continued connection beyond the veil. This is the first in our blog series featuring talks from the 2025 Symington Public Forum on Healing with Integrative Cancer Care, co-sponsored by CancerChoices.
. First published on : May 12 2025What to Do When Things Go Better Than Expected: Finding My New Normal with “NED” Ten Years Later
I’ve spent a lot of these past ten years on cancer. Diagnosis. Remission. Recurrence. Lethal prognosis. A resolve to search the globe for every kind of treatment that might work. Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hospital visits. Thoughts every day about how I must write my calendar in pencil, not pen. Coexisting and cancer coaching. Surfing the waves of complications and side effects. But now? It feels like another page is turning.
. First published on : Apr 20 2025Easing Cancer Pain and Suffering with Tom Smith, MD
In this CancerChoices webinar, CancerChoices co-founder Michael Lerner and Thomas Smith, MD, converse about easing cancer pain and suffering. Uncontrolled pain creates unnecessary suffering, but when pain is controlled, quality of life improves dramatically.
. First published on : Jan 02 2025Your Dance with Cancer: A Conversation with A Metastatic Breast Cancer Thriver
In this CancerChoices webinar, CancerChoices co-founder Michael Lerner talks with cancer coach Lindsay McDonell about her journey with cancer, her coaching work, and her work with the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC.
. First published on : Jan 02 2025Catching up to the Science of Cancer Care with Wayne Jonas, MD
In this CancerChoices webinar, CancerChoices co-founder Michael Lerner and CancerChoices advisor Wayne B. Jonas, MD, explore how whole person care can become part of routine oncology.
. First published on : Jan 02 2025Face to Face, Heart to Heart with Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA
In this CancerChoices webinar, CancerChoices co-founder and TNS host Michael Lerner and Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA, offer a conversation inspired by Janie’s work at the Callanish Society—a grassroots non-profit organization in Vancouver, BC, for people living with, and dying from, cancer.
. First published on : Dec 05 2024What Is Healing? with Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA
Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA, co-founder and executive director of the Callanish Society, explores the nature of the healing that arises among people communing together in retreat.
. First published on : Dec 05 2024How Social Support and Examining Life Priorities Transform the Cancer Journey with Dwight McKee, MD
CancerChoices advisor Dwight McKee, MD, and CancerChoices co-founder Michael Lerner “unpack” the lifestyle practice of social support, which includes finding meaning and experiencing various kinds of love.
. First published on : Dec 02 2024Responding to Uncertainty without Fear: Tips for Patients and Professionals with Wayne Jonas, MD
CancerChoices advisor Wayne B. Jonas, MD, discusses how people with cancer and the professionals caring for them can use intuition and thoughtful communication to respond to uncertainty without fear.
. First published on : Dec 02 2024Listening As Medicine with Janie Brown, RN, MSN, MA
Janie Brown, co-founder and executive director of the Callanish Society, discusses the profound healing that can occur when we listen to each other with full openness and attention.
. First published on : Dec 02 2024