By Karen Rigney and Sheila Emery Murphy, Certified Health Coaches Karen Rigney and Sheila Emery Murphy are certified health coaches who have led workshops on healthy cooking, nutrition and wellness for Support Connection. They offer the following simple tips for gradually integrating whole person health practices into your day*: 1. Your First Choice Counts […]
By Marlene Stager, MS Support Connection Peer Counselor I know who I was before I was diagnosed. I was a wife, mother of three, athlete, counselor and volunteer… each role came with an easy definition. Then I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Striving to be the most successful cancer patient on the planet while keeping […]
By Ruth Oratz, MD, FACP Reprinted by permission of Coping® magazine, copingmag.com. Amid the initial shock of hearing the words “You have cancer,” innumerable questions enter your mind:What does this mean for me? How will this affect my partner, my children, my parents, my friends? What about my job? You begin to realize that cancer will have […]
By Elana Miller, MD Reprinted from: Huffington Post On December 17, 2013 I went to the ER for what I presumed was walking pneumonia (as a physician, I’m good at misdiagnosing myself) only to find out I had a giant tumor in my chest that could have killed me within weeks. Immediately I was admitted […]