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Healing Beyond Treatment: Energy Medicine, Emotional Health, and Cancer Recovery

Not Today Cancer

Release Date: 12/29/2025

Healing Beyond Treatment: Energy Medicine, Emotional Health, and Cancer Recovery show art Healing Beyond Treatment: Energy Medicine, Emotional Health, and Cancer Recovery

Not Today Cancer

What happens when a physician trained in conventional medicine is personally confronted with cancer...not as a doctor, but as a mother? In this deeply moving and eye-opening episode, Dr. Lise Marie Irving shares how her daughter’s cancer diagnosis changed everything. Reshaping her understanding of healing, medicine, and the human body’s innate intelligence. In this episode, we explore: Dr. Irving’s transition from conventional medicine to energy healing after her daughter’s cancer journey Why the emotional and psychological impact of cancer is often minimized in treatment plans ...

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What happens when a physician trained in conventional medicine is personally confronted with cancer...not as a doctor, but as a mother?

In this deeply moving and eye-opening episode, Dr. Lise Marie Irving shares how her daughter’s cancer diagnosis changed everything. Reshaping her understanding of healing, medicine, and the human body’s innate intelligence.

In this episode, we explore:

  • Dr. Irving’s transition from conventional medicine to energy healing after her daughter’s cancer journey

  • Why the emotional and psychological impact of cancer is often minimized in treatment plans

  • How energy medicine supports the body’s natural ability to heal

  • How holistic approaches can complement conventional cancer care

  • The role of stress, emotional health, and nervous system regulation in recovery

  • How generational and inherited trauma can influence disease risk

  • Why finding purpose and meaning can support healing

This episode is for anyone navigating a cancer diagnosis personally or alongside a loved one who senses there is more to healing than protocols alone.

A reminder: You are not broken. Your body is communicating. And healing can happen on many levels.

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