Resource Roundup – Your Healing Journey
Patient Resources Your Healing Journey- Create an Optimal Healing Environment in Your Life “Optimal Healing Environments: Your Healing Journey” explores small changes individuals can make in daily life, to…
Case Study: Community Health System Frederick Health Makes Whole Person Cancer Care Routine
Most people with cancer receive cancer care in community settings, not academic medical centers. This case study highlights how a not-for-profit health system was able was able to promote healing and wellbeing while treating cancer by making integrative services a routine part of cancer care.
Veterans and Cancer Pocket Guide
This resource provides information for veterans with cancer and their caregivers. It helps break down if veterans are more likely to have cancer, what happens after diagnosis, how to work with insurance companies, common questions and more.
Whole Person Care: A Path to Wellbeing
“I am too young to have all this pain and anxiety, doc. I used to be healthy. I was deployed to Afghanistan twice and could keep up with any of…
Grieving the Healthi(er) Person You Used to Be
The pain of loss from chronic illness or a life-threatening diagnosis is very real Olivia’s lupus struck during her second year in college. An art major, she noticed her hands…
Young Adult and Teen Cancer Pocket Guide
Health-care providers and researchers know that adolescents and young adults, or AYAs, face unique challenges. These are mostly related to dealing with a disease during the life stages where you would normally focus on building your adult life through school or training, work, relationships, and family. It's important to have a strong understanding of the impact cancer can have on these age groups.
Cancer and Sexual Health Pocket Guide
Your sex life doesn’t have to end when you are diagnosed with cancer. What’s likely, though, is that it will change, just as it changes with other life events. Cancer has physical, mental, and emotional effects on your sex life. It’s important to emotionally prepare for the changes that may occur and eventually adjust to the change that you have experienced because of cancer treatment.
Legacy of Health Series: Understanding the Needs of Your Parents as They Age
Jenny Leyh is a mother, freelance writer, cancer survivor and integrative health advocate living in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. For most people and for much of our life, our parents…
How the Right Relationships Can Help You Heal
Your personal support system consists of a number of relationships. These include your family, friends, doctor, pastor, neighbors, coworkers, boss and many others. They can support you, or they can…
How to Improve Your Well-Being In the New Year
Personal wholeness is the feeling of well-being that occurs when your body, mind, and spirit are in harmony and balance. Whether you are suffering from depression or recovering from a…