Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Holistic Approach to Healing and Wellness
Yoga can help with a variety of issues related to breast cancer, such as managing weight, lowering cortisol levels, preventing lymphedema, and even helping with side effects of chemotherapy like chemo brain. In this blog, we will discuss different types of yoga that can be beneficial for breast cancer survivors, and the benefits of incorporating yoga into your healing journey.
The Importance of Empathy to Cancer Caregivers
What Children Need When a Parent Has Cancer
The health and physical functioning of children are often tied to the health of their parents. While this is relevant in many health conversations, it is especially important to cancer patients with young children who may suffer health-related impacts as a result of their parent’s cancer diagnosis.
We Are Better Together — No Seriously
Several years ago, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad of Brigham Young University boiled a heap of meaty research down to a simple finding: loneliness and a low level of social support present the same risk to our physical health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. That’s right. While people facing cancer and other serious illnesses have long been advised to join support groups to bolster their emotional well-being, we now know that social support is also linked with improved physical health in the general population, such as lower mortality rates, lower risk of heart disease and stroke and decreased blood pressure and chronic pain.