Mindfulness, Coping and Cancer: Healing from Within*
Mindfulness and meditation are powerful tools for people with cancer. Cancer patients face an enormous range of challenges during their diagnosis and treatment. Difficult emotions, fears for the future, treatment side effects, and the need to protect loved ones from distress put tremendous strains on patients and families. Even after treatment is finished, cancer casts a long shadow. Cancer survivors have to cope with traumatic memories of their illness and treatment, and often worry about what might come next. Even after many years, cancer survivors can feel haunted by their experience.
We can help. Our program can teach you to manage the distress and uncertainty that comes with cancer and its aftermath. You will learn how to use your own inner resources to cope with challenges that might have once seemed overwhelming. One moment at a time, one breath after the other, you will be able to step back from reactivity and reconnect with your deeper inner balance. Learn to let go of difficulties that are over and gone, and step back from unproductive anxiety about catastrophes that will never happen. Mindfulness and meditation give you control over your situation because you discover how to find balance and strength in the present moment. Once you learn these techniques they belong to you forever, and you can apply them in any situation. Let the medical system deal with the cancer. We will show you how to take care of yourself, and that changes everything. The known benefits of mindfulness for people living with cancer include improved psychological functioning, reduction of stress, enhanced communication skills, and greater resiliency and coping.
* This workshop is run in conjunction with Patient and Family Services at the Abramson Cancer Center
Healing from Within Workshop Details
| Date/Times: | March 20- March 21, 2010 10:00am – 3:00pm both days |
| Location: | 3930 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, Pa 19104 |
| Cost: | $195 Suggested Donation |
| Register: | Registration Form |
| Facilitator: | Taught by Michael Baime, MD |
