Holiday Stress Series: Take a Tech Break
Last week I wrote about meditation as a scientifically proven tool for reducing stress. If you haven’t read that post, check it out. Mindful breathing meditation is not as hard as it may sound. This week, I’m encouraging you to take a break from technology. Multiple recent studies have shown that our daily tech addiction […]
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Holiday Stress Series: Mindful Breathing Meditation
In this series on managing stress, last week I wrote about how and why it is vitally important to learn how to manage stress if you are trying to create Permanent Remission. It can be especially challenging during the holidays. Today, I start off with a scientifically proven method to reduce stress while simultaneously boosting […]
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Holiday Stress Series: How and Why to Reduce Stress
Happy Thanksgiving! Although this can be a joyful time of the year, the holidays can also bring added stress to our already busy, stress-filled lives. You may be feeling a lot of pressure to make the holidays special for kids or loved ones; you may have visits with extended family, bringing up past triggers; or […]
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Healing the Gut
I have been having a bug problem for 30 years and it’s not in my house. It’s in my gut. I have been learning a lot about the importance of the various bacteria in and on our bodies since my two cancer diagnoses. Did you know we are host to a hundred trillion bacteria? Did […]
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The First 3 Steps to Getting Back on Your Feet Post-Treatment
You’re so freaking tired. You’re afraid of every weird pain wondering if it might be the cancer back again. So much anxiety! Add to that, your friends and family are expecting you to be back to normal now that the treatment is over. But you are not back to normal. You’re pretty sure you will […]
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The Permanent Remission Diet
Sometimes I hear people say that food doesn’t matter in health. Or all food is converted to glucose in the blood and that fuels all cells so it doesn’t matter what you eat. Or all calories are the same inside the body. These opinions, sometimes even made by medical professionals, are ignoring new studies that […]
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Healthy Lifestyle Hacks + Roasted Chicken Provençal recipe
This week I’m bringing up to the front one of my older posts that is so helpful. It speaks to the HOW to living a healthy lifestyle in a busy world. Be sure to read all the way to the end for my delicious Roasted Chicken Provençal Recipe! Following are a few lifestyle hacks that I have […]
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3 Surprising Foods That Boost Your Immune System
One of the best things you can do to fight cancer and to make sure it doesn’t recur is to boost your immune system. There are lots of ways to do that which I talk about in my book, WTF?! I Have Cancer? and in my coaching program The Permanent Remission Project. One of my favorites to […]
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Self-Care in a Crazy World
Does the world seem to be off its axis? I was brought up to pay attention to and be involved in politics and to care about our planet. I have lived over half a century now and this is the craziest time I’ve ever witnessed on both fronts. Random horrific violence, multiple earthquakes and devastating hurricanes […]
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Basic Yoga for Cancer Remission
I’m happy to bring you a guest post this week by Heidi Hackler, RYT, CHHC Where yoga was once considered “woo-woo” stuff that only vegetarians did, it has now become mainstream, and today most cancer centers in the US have some form of yoga program available. Yoga can be beneficial for healing the body from a […]
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