Cancer - my top tips for thriving

Tasha Thor-Straten • 22 October 2019

Ideas to help you find ways to live better during & after cancer treatment

* Talk to friends & family - avoid keeping your feelings to yourself. Tell people how you want to be treated - if you need space, tell them….if you need to be treated normally, tell them.

* Talk to a therapist / counsellor at an early stage - The British Medical Journal reports that “depression affects up to 20%, and anxiety 10%, of patients with cancer”.

* Hospital appointments - ask questions, lots of questions. If you’re not sure of something, check and check again.

* Join online forums and find out how other people have dealt with diagnosis and treatment. Build your own community.

* Research nutritional changes to assist with improving your immune system.

* Listen to podcasts - Dr Rangan Chatterjee is my favourite for all things related to wellbeing.

* Explore complementary therapies that can sit alongside conventional treatment - I paid privately for acupuncture the day after my chemotherapy treatment. I also signed up to a course of complimentary reflexology sessions offered by my local Macmillan centre. I also sought safe advice from a registered homeopath to improve my immune system throughout treatment.

* Visit your local Macmillan centre (or similar organisation) for advice and support.

* Listen to your body, but don’t believe everything you think. Visiting an NLP practitioner will help you shift unhelpful thought patterns and establish a new ‘normal’ way of living. I wanted to stop crying a week before important scans, so I had a session to remove this pattern. Since then I have not cried about a scan. This is one of the reasons I studied to become a master practitioner.

* Make plans, don’t stop living.

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