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BC-078 Karen’s Story A narrative of Hope and Inspiration
05/03/2021
BC-078 Karen’s Story A narrative of Hope and Inspiration
Karen: I would say look for the positive in your life and as you're looking for the positive reach out and grab a hand for support because we can do this together. Automated: Hello and welcome to the Beat Cancer Answer brought to you by beatcancer.org the center for advancement in cancer education. Carl: Hello this is Carl Wagner with Beat Cancer and I have here one of our wonderful coaches Karen Holmes and I’m going to let her talk to you about her journey with cancer and how she got to come to us and become a cancer coach. With that, Karen Holmes. Karen: Hi, thank you, Carl It's wonderful to be here. Carl: Welcome. Karen: I mean that with a full heart and gratitude because being alive and being vital and full of energy is the message that I want to convey to all of the people who are experiencing cancer or who have experienced cancer as I did. It's a journey and it's a wonderful time in my life, to be able to come back and to coach other people during their cancer journey as they heal and recover from cancer. I came to being a cancer coach after I experienced inflammatory breast cancer, and that was back in 2011. I’ve been on this recovery journey for a long time, I feel very happy that I’m here and the journey that I have been on started when I found out that I had obviously breast cancer. I was told that I was going to get chemotherapy, I was going to have surgery, and I was going to have radiation. And all of that seemed rather intimidating, and I did go through all of that. But during that time period, I did a lot of research. I did a lot of reading about the other holistic practices that would be helpful, that would support me through my cancer recovery. And for me, those were the most important steps that I could take. That I could be my own cancer advocate. Although, I didn't know anything about cancer coaches at the time and so I developed some of the strategies that I’ve learned and I’ve read about in the beat cancer dot org program. And so, that all comes around when I finished my medical treatments, and I’ll say that they cured me, and that's in my story. That I became this...okay you're done with all the treatments, you're done with the radiation fine we'll see you in six months. Then it was now, what do I do? That now what do I do, came to me as dance. I knew that food and movement were the best solutions to getting my vitality back. So, I’ll say that dance brought me back to life, and that's where my recovery journey really begins because I knew that I had to change my lifestyle. I knew that I wanted to become somebody who was alive and vibrant and not just somebody who was sitting around wondering what to do next. For me, the dance enlightened my life in fact, I tell people I retired from my job and I flew to Maui and I danced. And that's true, and I came home from Maui and I didn't go back to work. I didn't go back to the career that I’d had for 32 years. Instead, I began this journey of finding out what I wanted to do next and how I could support particularly other women in their breast cancer journey and that's where my focus is. And so, I became a dance teacher facilitator. I facilitate something called Azul, which is a conscious movement dance. now you're going to ask me, what is Azul? Carl: What is Azul? Karen: Conscious dance is really awakening one's heart and awakening what's inside of you. Through the dance, I was able to embody all of the feelings that Ii was going through. It's somewhat, and I've talked to other women they agree. It's somewhat like PTSD, only for cancer patients, where you figure out that wow, I've gone through all my treatments, I'm supposed to be okay and now I realize what I’ve gone through and what I need to do to change. Concurrently, I changed my eating habits and I did a lot of internal work to figure out where my path was going to go. That path led me to cancer coaching and that's where I am today. To really believe in the support for other women. I want to be able to support other women in their recovery. I think it's really important to make that connection one-on-one. That's what really keeps us alive, that's what motivates us, inspires us to become all that we can be. That once we've gone through this cancer treatment, we have the opportunity to change our lives. I tell people breast cancer was the worst thing and the best thing that ever happened to me. It was the worst thing because I don't wish it on anybody. It's not a pleasant journey, it can be full of suffering and angst. And yet, what it gave me was gratitude for my life. It gave me the opportunity to change, reach out to people, to become somebody alive, somebody who can dance her way into freedom of all possibilities and ways of being. Before I logged on to do this interview, I danced for an hour. It gave me that insight as to where I wanted to go and what I wanted to say. That’s where I am today. Here I am as a cancer coach. I've spent the past few months clarifying my vision. When I was going through my cancer treatments, they say have a positive vision, so my positive vision at the time was running down the coast of the Pacific Ocean. I was having a new little grandson at the time and with my hair in a ponytail so my hair would be grown and so that was the vision. The vision that I have created now, is one of a three-part vision that I created in something called pillars of healing and that's become my offering to breast cancer and cancer patients, and women who are recovering from cancer. So, in the pillars of healing, I offer three opportunities and the first one is a one-on-one cancer coach. Call me up, text me, send me an email, and I will do a free discovery call with you that we can see what it is you as an individual need. I think of you as my...I have created Lily; I have a blog on my website that lily is the person that I like to talk to. And for her I say, I offer you that one-on-one individual assistance, guidance, I will listen and we can move forward together complementing whatever medical treatment you prefer to take. So, that's the one-on-one coaching. The other two other pieces...and the second pillar is really the dance, and offering dance classes and opportunities for women experiencing cancer. The kind of dance that I do, which is Azul, is very freeing. It can be done by anybody and I say anybody regardless of one's physical attributes, because it's something that you bring from inside. Azul is not something that you're going to have choreographed steps. It's I play music and I facilitate and you move your body to whatever comes up. You listen to your body and say oh I’m going to allow this particular movement or something comes up and you'll say I understand where I’m going now. So, that movement which I believe is critical to our healthy well-being, it really is. If you had to ask me what are the three things that would be movement and what we put in our bodies, food, and some kind of connection with...that I want to say spiritual or guidance through meditation or whatever you choose to take. That those are the three big things that are going to heal us. And that leads me to the third pillar. The third pillar is one where I am available to do presentations in person at some point or online for people on A how to prevent cancer or what are some of the things that you can do if you are experiencing cancer or somebody you know and love. Because I believe that all of us have known someone who has had a cancer journey. So those are the three pillars. The one-on-one consultation. the dancing opportunities through Azul and the third one is I am available to give presentations to your organization, to your group, to your meeting, it can be a short one, it can be a fairly lengthy one, and it's really geared to what the organization or your group needs and wants. On my website which is pillars of healing dot org, I give a list of five things but I’m very happy to tailor any kind of presentation using the things that I believe are truly needed and wanted and beneficial to people who experience cancer. So, that in short, is really what pillars of healing are all about. Carl: Well there's a lot to unpack there, but I want to say congratulations first of all for sharing your journey and also getting through from what I was reading a 45 chance of healing and basically going through all the big three, the surgery, the chemotherapy, and radiation and going through all the hardships that go along with that losing your hair and just a fear to finding your life purpose and sharing with others I think it's wonderful. Thank you so much for all of that. I always laughed when you talked about the Azul being something anybody could do because when I dance and I’m expressing myself you better stand back a little bit because you might get knocked over by accident. I’m not a good dancer so I was just trying to imagine that but that's wonderful. So, how long have you been a coach now? Karen: It's coming up on a year. Carl: Wow, terrific. Karen: It’s coming up on a year, I do believe that the coach in me stems from...I was in education and had a really nice career and I am very available to listen to people. So, the coaching just falls into line with what I have done for a very long time and being able to help people from where they are to what they want to become and that's in essence what a coach does. Carl: Yeah, so it's a natural progression for you and you have such a soothing voice, I have told you. I think even if people talk to you on the phone and didn't see you or could be an interactive person, I think just that calming voice and like you said I’m here to talk to and to listen. I think a lot of people are missing that, they don't get that in the traditional medical treatment. If they're going through traditional medical treatment, I think it's really great to take on a coach. Somebody who's there to listen to you and guide you, that's wonderful. Karen: I think it's really important when I'm coaching or anybody is coaching, to listen to what the person who's going through the experience wants to do like. I became my own advocate because I studied and I read a lot and I looked at the research and if somebody had been there to guide me, and tell me that there was research and give me the information I would have been able to move forward may be faster and a little deeper. I truly believe that there's a lot of information out there, and a lot of research that's been done and I have to say...repeat myself, that I think it's the food piece is really important. I changed the way I ate, I began to dance, I began to look forward to life and if we look at the research what it shows us, is the people who are the survivors, or the people who move forward, are the ones who say okay I have cancer and I’m still going to be alive and well and full of energy. It's that vitality...when I was going through my treatments, a dear friend said to me. She said, somebody, has to be on the winning side and I think that's you and so I had to believe that too. And that hope and inspiration that I can give to other people is so important because I’ve been through...that I’ve walked those steps and I know that on a daily basis it’s not easy. But yet, there's hope. There's hope at the end as we graduate from the medical treatment. That we don't graduate from a way of life. What I clearly see with the holistic practices, is that there is good healthy living for anybody, for everybody, that's what I believe gives us that push to become more of who we can be. Carl: And you're a wonderful role model for people that have been through it and have this great fear of recurrence. That's a big deal, people like you said, what do I do now? Now that my medical treatment is done, they just pushed me out of the nest, so to speak and now you have to fly and you don't know what to do exactly, sorry I didn't mean to cut you off. Karen: No, that's okay, because I was thinking of the word that you use, recurrence, and I hear that a lot. I’m fearful of recurrence and these steps that we can take as individuals and as a group, to ward off that recurrence, I think are important and in your cancer journey just making it through those treatments but then setting up a lifestyle that will tell those little cancer cells not to come back. We have them floating around in our body but we don't need them to reoccur, and that's the lifestyle, that's the coaching that we can do on an ongoing basis. Whether we're one year, two years, 10 years, 20 years, out from our treatment. That our lifestyle changes and our view of life become more positive, that we can be filled with gratitude on a daily basis and that becomes the message that I really hope that people will take. Carl: Yeah, a change of lifestyle is so important and some people don't change. You're a wonderful role model of how you can go from one life and go through cancer and make your cancer mean something. Take it to the next level and show people yes, you can completely change your life. Maybe this new life will be a better life than the old life, but sometimes that wake-up call is all you need. Karen: It can and you can create that better life you and I and other people have that, I want to say opportunity, to create a better life and I'm here to help other people do that. That's my function as a coach. It can be just a tiny thing because if you're on a street corner and you take just one step to the left or one step to the right it can change your path. So, we start out with tiny steps that are very doable in your life, in my life that's what happened. And from that, you can make other changes and you see the possibilities. You see how it can change you, you can also see the benefits of some of these changes. Carl: Yeah, well some of the benefits you...I hate to say you can't see because it's like a prevention measure, you're talking about preventing. When you eat better, some people just don't see it but they don't realize how eating in a bad way is negatively impacting their life. And two, with the movement, the dance people don't realize how critical that is. I worked with a cancer patient or a former cancer patient when he had some lymph nodes taken out and it was vital for him to do things with his arms which he wouldn't normally do to get the juices flowing because of the lymph nodes. so yeah Karen: I think many women particularly those who've had breast cancer are fearful of the lymphedema that can occur. There is so much that one can do to contain the lymphedema that it is not just putting on a sleeve. And there's so much you can do with movement, with the massaging, with some of the other things that are recommended. Those are the little touches, the little changes that really can change your life. I had to smile about the eating piece because for me, when I changed the way I ate, I could feel the difference. I could feel...I also have to say I lost 50 pounds. Carl: Congratulations. Karen: So, that was a big deal. That was huge. And when I looked at what I was eating, I could see why cancer had a field day. So, little by little I changed it. It didn't happen overnight, because it's hard to change what you eat but I did it and I would be delighted to help somebody else do the same thing. And you have to see where it is that you or your client wants to move. Some people are very happy with what they eat and some people are very willing to change little by little. You don't do it overnight as I said but there are small changes. As for the dance, I dance because I love to dance. I also know that anybody can dance and most people like music. So, you can move to the music in any way. I also want to state that it's very important to find the movement that your body enjoys. If you don't enjoy running or you don't enjoy yoga, if you don't enjoy lifting weights, chances are you're not going to do it over the long term and that's what we're looking at. I think it's important to discover what the rhythm of your body responds to. Whether it's a walk outside. Whether it's on an elliptical in a gym and some of the gyms are open and closed right now. Whether it's bike riding with your son or daughter or a partner. Those are the kinds of things that we can discover, will resonate with your body. I go back to the lymphedema piece. One of the things that I learned in my recovery was that I was very careful to build my arm to a state where it had the muscle tone. Where it had the ability to have full range of motion and the lymphedema, I was really careful with but I got that arm so that it is today as strong as it can be today, and that's very important. so that's something to work with, with a lot of people. Carl: Thank you so much, I appreciate that. People don't realize what someone goes through when you say breast cancer. They don't think anything's happening to their arms. So, the eating part...certainly people can feel that benefit by just internalizing the fact that they're changing their internal terrain and making their body an inhospitable environment for cancer to thrive. When they eat the wrong way, they make their bodies a place where cancer likes to live. And I like what you said about doing something that people do for a long haul. It's like you said, it's a lifestyle or making...that's so impactful and I hope people get that message, that it's the long haul. You have covered most of my questions but I do want to ask, when you're taking the course, was there something that stood out for you or you learned that you didn't really know before? Something that really added to your program? Karen: When I did the beat cancer program, I found first of all that is synthesized and brought together a lot of the information that I had picked up along the way. And so, it is put in one place, I want to say an encyclopedia, a compilation of the practices in which I believe. And to add to that, it was backed up by research and that's very important to show that there is definite research that there is scientific evidence for these holistic practices. Because when you talk to people, they go oh that's just what somebody's saying and that's really not true. What we're saying is these practices have developed out of research, out of scientific data, that shows how we can prevent cancer and how we can work with our cancer recovery and that it's not simply what somebody is putting forth in what they think. But we know that it helps us to see that it's helped people in all different countries and a variety of different cancers, in different stages of the cancer. So that research piece really was important for me. Carl: Yeah, people don't realize that. Susan was doing that for 35 years. This is before she ever made a course out of it, so it's not only the science that she researched but it was put into practice for 35 years of helping people. Oh, I did notice that you said the pillars of healing dot org, is that a non-profit? Karen: No, well it probably will be a non-profit and so I had a choice of what I was going to name this. I was advised that I could use the dot org and rather than the dot com so that's where it is. Carl: Okay, yeah. Whenever I see a dot org, I think right away non-profit. Karen: Well I will be working with people to build, what I want to say a business, but a business that really goes back into some of the cancer research, some of the cancer organizations that I believe are doing great work. Carl: Good for you. Well, look at that, a whole new you. Who knew? Karen: It's great, well you ask for like that a one-word aha moment, I think it's gratitude, I think it's vitality, I...
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BC-077 Intro To A Coach: Arti Kumar-Jain
10/24/2020
BC-077 Intro To A Coach: Arti Kumar-Jain
Hello! My name is Arti Kumar-Jain. I am a Certified Holistic Cancer Coach. My journey began when my mom was diagnosed with Stage IV in February 2018. As anyone knows in the cancer journey, endless research and constant looking for answers is sought out. The common theme of nutrition and reduction of were common elements found in my research. Although my mom passed in August 2019, her spirit lives in me. I am driven to be of assistance to those diagnosed with cancer, friends, family members, and community is part of my in becoming a Cancer Coach. Being of East Asian origin, holistic healing through mind, body, and spirit alliance is crucial and therefore this program at BeatCancer.org is the perfect fit. My focus and passion on health, wellness, and nutrition and living abundantly have come through the formation of the non-profit, Diya Holistic Life Care. I also provide Coaching services and tutoring for children and families through Love & Light 4 Kidz LLC. I am here with you on this journey and know that I am a holding space for you! TRANSCRIPT Artie: You do have some time to think, yes, the tumors are growing...I'm talking about active diagnosis. You do have time to think but oftentimes what ends up happening is, anxiety for everybody kicks in and so having somebody on your side like a coach or someone that can help you to realize you do have choices. And choices embody transformation, right? If we get pigeonholed in something, then our power is taken away. I just want to remind people we do have lots of choices. We just have to be presented with them on the plate. Automated: Hello and welcome to the Beat Cancer Answer, brought to you by beatcancer.org the center for advancement in cancer education. Carl: This is Carl Wagner. I'm here with beatcancer.org, the center for advancement in cancer education and we have one of our great coaches, Artie Kumar Jing. Is that correct? Good, I got it thank you. Instead of introducing Artie, I'm going to let her tell you who she is and what all the initials are behind your name. You have a lot of them. Artie: There are a lot of them but that doesn't mean much until you can make something of it. Yes, my name’s Artie: and the first role that I can tell you is that I am a mom of two girls that are currently four and six and I got into coaching...it's been about a year's worth of a journey getting into coaching, especially holistic cancer care. I have had my certification now for about four months and I have been...I started my journey actually when it comes to education, a long time ago, about 20 years ago. I started working in preschools then I switched into working in elementary schools, got an undergrad in psychology, and did a minor in conflict resolution. And along my journey, I always said that I especially would leave the classroom if I was paying attention to other needs for the kids besides the pedagogy of teaching. Then I went into clinical counseling, Mental Health counseling worked in private practices, in hospital settings, in different clinical settings. And then along the trip...I call it a trip because I really feel like the journey is a trip. I got married and when my family moved back to Virginia, we had kind of moved all over and worked also in another clinical facility. But then I decided I wanted to stay home with my girls. And my mom who lived in Northern Virginia moved closer to us and she was actually diagnosed with ovarian cancer stage four, back in February of 2018. So, like anyone, when that takes place in your home or whatever. You go through research, you talk to everybody and anybody, you are continually trying to figure out how to beat this thing. So, regardless of beating or not beating, you do make catastrophic changes really quickly. My mom made a lot of them, I also side by side made some changes. looked a lot into nutrition, into holistic health and of course, being of Indian origin, my mom was already into some of that stuff. I have always looked into it, but it became very apparent in the research that the holistic approach of mind, body, spirit needs to be in place. Carl: So, that's what brought you to beat cancer then? Or did you look at other things first? Artie: Oh no, sorry. She did pass but long story short in her passing, she had written some life stages down in one of her books, and I looked at it and I was like I realized I was supposed to do more with just her journey but to help others. And that's when I looked up to beat cancer...it just came to me; the coaching module was going to be implemented because I love coaching. I love therapy too, but coaching is more about helping that person really meeting their goals and their objectives to help them with that forward momentum. And so, the beat cancer came up and it was right when I read that descriptor. I didn't even look anywhere else, I just knew that holistic piece of mind, body, spirit, knowing the story behind the founding of it, knowing that there was a personal element touched for her journey, for Dr. Silverstein’s journey. And then knowing everyone who's on and a part of that whole entity it didn't take me long. I literally signed up the day that I saw the website, there was no question that it was the right fit. Carl: Now I see that you also have your own non-profit is that correct? Artie: Yes. Carl: Okay, and go ahead tell us a little bit about that. Artie: Sure, the non-profit actually is coaching through the lifespan. We're looking at health coaching and career coaching. But cancer coaching is a module where I feel of course that it's important to help people in disease prevention and also preventative care. But also, for those who are in this cycle and we also support end-of-life care through coordination with hospice and through palliative care in different organizations. The goal is to make it on a sliding scale and affordable to folks, so currently, we are working on getting some grants it's in its infancy stage so a lot of it's just starting to build. Carl: Wait a minute is this the kid’s nonprofit? Artie: No, this is the...the kids are a business. Carl: Okay, I thought that was an NPO, but that's your website and that's your Instagram? Artie: Yes, the website is under development but the Instagram and the Facebook page are all live. Carl: Okay, and do you want to tell us a little bit about that too? Artie: Sure, lovingly for kids is a module where we provide webinars and seminars for organizations as well as for parents and families. Those who are in therapy and may need a module of coaching, we provide those services. We also provide tutoring. I'm currently...right now we're actually looking at a lot of virtual workshops and after school programs in conjunction with other organizations. That website is actually currently operating, I apologize it is the non-profit website that is under development. Carl: Right, I didn't even know about that. I thought it was just...I was just talking about the kid’s website. That's a surprise to me, that's great. I have to look at my questions here, excuse me I’m sorry we're both new at this. When you went through the course what did you find helpful that you probably didn't know? Artie: I actually thought it was really helpful that we so I have had this background of nutrition and looking into nutrition. But I thought it was really Right, I good to have the background of the root cause. For instance, I had...for my mom, we had looked into other avenues. What could have been the cause? We went to a naturopath and the possibility of maybe hormones or whatnot. But to get the actual descriptors, behind all of these different types of cancers and what we need to examine. We talk about stress on the body, but then, what particular stressors, for that particular cancer. It's almost like you could target that organ and how to really build it up to really reduce that tumor growth or whatnot. That was extremely helpful and very beneficial. Because it was the first time that I got a chance ever to examine the root cause. Carl: Yeah, two things that you mentioned, something about meeting people where they are and what you were just talking about, then trying to find the root cause. I think it's very interesting, that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and that's one thing that I think is different about our course. It's not a diet book, it's not a cookie-cutter program, or a special protocol. It's about observing people and being able to coach them through from wherever they're at. What did you think was your favorite part of the course that helped you in your coaching? Artie: I really have to tell you all the nutrition and stuff. It's so hard, Carl because of the fact that everything has been leading to this holistic mind, body, spirit, and taking care of our body. Feeding it well and then stress reduction and that kind of thing. The nutrition pieces are really helping because it just solidified more and more of the research that has already been conducted. But knowing that this institute has already far exceeded when they've been following this module for a long time. Even before, some people are now getting on the boat to examine what dairy does to the body or to examine how it does look to eat more cleanly. That was when I realized that for me, that’s how we can treat this cancer embodiment of preventative and that was really empowering. Because then, I also feel like...especially in my line of work, where it can, it is about wellness but then preventative wellness and also meeting the person if they are diagnosed. How we can assist them if they want to make some changes or whatnot. Carl: Right, I think an important thing to know if people are just seeing these coaching videos for the first time, is that we don't tell people not to go to their doctors or to follow a doctor's advice. But we do help them get their bodies into the best possible situation to heal properly. Because we don't say we cure cancer. The body cures cancer and even doctors can't say they cure cancer. They might say they killed cancer, but they can't say they healed the body necessarily. The body does it itself and I think that's one of the things that's a big takeaway from all the people that get counseled by our coaches or by our staff. I think we hear that a lot, they've never been so healthy since they've had cancer. It was a wake-up call. So Right, I for you, did you make any personal changes in your life after learning this stuff? Artie: I have, right when I was going through that nutrition program, I have been vegetarian for a number of years. Then I had cut dairy out of my diet and I felt tons better and slowly even more so reducing the animal...whatever, I mean even just examination of how close I come to toxins and soaps and household ingredients. Just really getting into that...I already knew about the pesticides and food but like really becoming aware and how it's all linked together. Carl: Right, as soon as you get in you start. Now you're cleaning out your closet. Artie: It became even more of a pronounced enhancement...because it's almost like...they say cancer is transforming for the patient and then it also becomes the embodiment for the family, I feel. And so, therefore...my mom even had said...in a way and I feel the same way, that in a way, it is a blessing to have it because you live in a very mindfully different way when you have this disease that comes into your life. Carl: Yeah, well mindful, if you have studied some of the holistic ways of dealing with things but the unfortunate thing is for most cancer patients they go to the doctor and they're told get in for surgery, get in for chemo right away and they don't have time to think about anything. so, it's really good. I think as the coaches start to coach...especially the person who cooks in the house and everybody becomes healthy and the neighbors see that and there's this ripple effect. I think when that happens, that can cause people to become mindful. Instead of just a patient or a number even they're treated like a tumor. So, even if people are going through a medical protocol, it's great to get a coach like Artie, because she can be there with you and through the whole process it's a great shoulder to cry on, even. Because when people are telling you to do one thing, but your heart's telling you to do another thing, you need somebody on your side. Everybody else is just scared and pushing you in a medical direction when really you need to heal your body as well. Sorry, I didn't mean to steal your thunder. Artie: Oh no, I could totally [inaudible 14:36] what you just said. The fact is that you do have some time to think. Yes, the tumors are growing...when you're...I'm talking about active diagnosis. But you do have time to think but oftentimes, what ends up happening is anxiety for everybody kicks in and so having somebody on your side like a coach or someone that can help you to realize you do have choices, and choices embody transformation. We often...if we get pigeonholed in something then our power is taken away. But I just want to remind people, we do have lots of choices. We just have to be presented with them on the plate. Carl: Right, and you as a patient, you have some control. You're not completely a victim, you're not completely out of control. It didn't start overnight; it won't end overnight. I'm not a coach, I am the CEO of the organization so I just make sure the lights stay on here and make sure everybody else does their job well. So, I know enough to be dangerous, I guess. I leave all the professional stuff up to everybody else. All right, let me look at another question we have here. What was your health journey? You didn't have a cancer diagnosis; you are like me. My stepmother who I grew up with, she died of cancer, her father died of cancer, her mother's second husband died of cancer. So, I've seen it a lot. And everybody that's on the board, everybody has anything to do with us, our organization intimately, has either had cancer themselves or somebody very close to them had cancer. And a lot of people find us the same way that they did. They wanted the cancer to mean something, instead of something just bad, something positive, something that they can take and help other people and that was the whole reason that Susan started the organization. She didn't get this information in time to help her husband but she made sure that she would not let one more family, if she had anything to do with it, go through what she went through. And I think I'm hearing the same story from you, is that correct? Artie: Yes. Carl, I really appreciate you saying we're not...when I'm talking holistic, I do believe in allopathic, homeopathy, all of our medicines together. But I just really want again, back to the idea that chemo is not your only option. For instance, if my mom could have gotten back in time, she would have made the decision to do the Chinese the TCM, Chinese Medicine a little earlier. But she didn't want to do it both side by side, but one of my examples to you is, I said it earlier, how do we help people? How can I be part of the journey to make sure that they have well-informed care, and that's what all patients deserve? Especially cancer patients who we don't just decide chemo is your only option. No, let's look at all of your wide range and then go ahead. If you want to do all the cards, by all means, let's do all the cards. Or if you want to do this, at least to help empower you to make sure that when you rest with your decision, you really get to rest with it. Carl: Right, you're not left not knowing at least. And just the empowerment mentally knowing that you're able to participate in your healing. I think it is a big deal and that's one of the things that our coaches are great at. They're just there to help you and whenever you're stuck, just call and take some time to go over what's going on. I think it's really helpful mentally, for people. Yeah, so let me look again. I'm very unprofessional. Artie: Oh my God, please. What I want to share is, it was interesting, we were talking about the journey behind where I got to the kids. I actually had formulated the business card for the non-profit and on the back, it had the services we were providing. It said cancer support. I then, like I said, when I was thinking in my brain, I really want some type of cancer coach, right? And I was like, is it out there? The google search and the [inaudible19:20] search for google, I put in cancer coach and that's when beat cancer came up. Carl: That's great. Artie: So, literally the only thing...I'm a researcher, so I researched the hell out of everything. For instance, the Health Coaching, I looked at in-depth. Where am I going to do my program? Who's the provider of the services? How much time have they spent? But right away, the click happened because of the way that the mission statement and how...and her journey and everyone who is supporting this cause. Carl: Susan was an early adopter. She was pre-google. She was pre-internet, so she was doing this for 35 years before we filmed it. Yeah, she...and people had a different mentality. They followed their doctor's instructions right to death, literally. The thing about Susan is, she is a dynamic researcher. I mean, the amount of studies, she can just quote offhand it's just amazing. When she's talking about something, she doesn't just say it as an opinion, she backs it up with the studies it came from, and 35 years of experience in the street. Working with people and counseling people and teaching other counselors to counsel people. So yeah, it's like I said, it's because we got some people that are in our industry that aren't even as old as how long she's been doing it for. Artie: That's amazing. Carl: Yeah, but it's a delight for us to see it. This is her legacy is to have coaches out and there's no shortage of people to talk to. If they're willing to talk. Okay, so now I'm going to look up that question, let's see what we got here. Have you coached any clients at this point? Artie: For the cancer module, I have one...my organization does a lot of pro bono work or slack, we just take the donations right and we're in the building phase. But I have one person that I have talked to in India and I'm helping. We've had phone...two-hour sessions and she's actually not the patient, it's her husband. Carl: Yeah, the caregiver. Artie: The caregiver. And so, we have gotten an opportunity and I've given…she asked for a few tips here and there and we have our next call actually coming up. We give some time in between, we try to make a few of those modifications she had asked for and I just reminded her of...you do the things also, like some of it was nutritionally based, so do it together. So that, he doesn't feel like he…so now she understood the concept behind doing things as a couple. [inaudible22:38] just he is the pain. He needs to do, and she appreciated that too, I think instead, let's do it together. Carl: No, that's good. You can't have somebody who's your spouse or your family not participate, because that just makes it so much harder for you. Again, it makes you feel alone. But just for clarification, I want people to know that, or are watching...
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BC-076 How 10yr Survivor, Natalie Proenca, Beat Cancer Holistically and has grown to be a Top Cancer Coach
09/28/2020
BC-076 How 10yr Survivor, Natalie Proenca, Beat Cancer Holistically and has grown to be a Top Cancer Coach
Natalie Proenca conquered breast cancer for over 10 years. Her cancer diagnosis was in 2008 with conventional treatment. Then a few years later she had tumors in ovaries and uterus. Her oncologist confirmed that it was caused by hormonal therapy. She took this chance and used a natural approach and treated it by changing diet and exercises. She has transformed herself using mind-body-spirit and decided to leave her Software Engineer career and was trained as a Cancer Coach with BeatCancer and TrulyHeal, and certified Holistic Integrative Health Coach with IIN. She is also a certified Plant-based Nutrition Graduate at eCornell (with T. Colin Campbell). She's helped many cancer patients recover from the treatments and even help them healed from different types of cancer such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, thyroid cancer, and brain cancer. She offers online programs; Colon & Kidney Detox and Beat Cancer Naturally. She has a strong passion to guide you to find the best protocol for you to fight cancer and get well. Connect with her on facebook.com/Natalie.Proenca or email at [email protected] or 508-282-6698. Natalie: For someone who just found out that they've been diagnosed with cancer. What should they do? I think the very first thing you need to understand is that you have had cancer for years. You did not have cancer two days ago or two months ago, it has been for a long time. It could take seven to ten or twenty years. If you have lung cancer, it could be thirty years. So do not rush. I want you to step back and then just take a quiet moment and ask yourself, how did you get cancer and what you should do next. Most people, when they learn that they have cancer, get frustrated. They have fears. When you make decisions with fears, you make the wrong decision. I want you to learn, I want you to search, ask people who have been there, who have experience guide you, what you should do. So you have the right path. You don't want to try left and right and back and forth. You're going to lose time. Even though I said, you have been having cancer for a long time, but sometimes when you choose the wrong road, you're losing time and the cancer, it's true that it's growing all the time, but it's not as fast as when you know it. Think about two years, five years ago, you did not know that you have cancer. You never care about cancer. You never really think about it, but now you know that you have cancer, you start having fears, you start worry and that causes cancer to grow very fast. So the first thing you should do is to just step back and ask yourself, what is the right protocol for you? You want to do conventional, or you want to do naturally or you want to do integrative? I want you to sit down and then take a piece of paper and write down pros and cons of each approach and think about what will fit your lifestyle the most, and what's best for yourself because each approach is not the best for everyone. You have to come up with your own protocol and that's the very first step that I want to suggest to anyone that has just been diagnosed with cancer. Intro: Hello and welcome to the Beat Cancer Answer brought to you by beatcancer.org. The center for advancement in cancer education. Carl: This is Carl Wagner. I'm here with Beat Cancer. We're here with another one of our great coaches, Natalie Parenza and I'm going to just shut up and let her speak. So Natalie, please tell us a little bit about yourself, your journey and how you came to beat cancer? Natalie: My name is Natalie. My journey about cancer; I have been diagnosed since 2008, when my youngest son was just 10 months old. I had breast cancer and my son was just learning how to walk. At that time I had no knowledge. I had no information about alternative medicine or alternative approaches so I don't know what to do. I just took the conventional treatment, just like a lot of people did. So I had surgery, I had chemotherapy, radiation. Then one day I saw one of my friends, she had cancer returned. She had breast cancer before and then she had cancer returned. The second time she had brain cancer and she didn't make it and I have seen a lot of people and I started to realize that conventional treatment is not the answer. I had that experience myself. I was on Tamoxifen, I was on hormone therapy for two years, then it started showing tumor in my ovaries and uterus. So the doctor kept watching the tumor growing, by that time I already told myself that I don't want to be like others, I don't want cancer to return. What should I do? I start taking control of my health and I start searching for the answer, how can I be cancer free? So I study a lot. I started reading books, any books about cancer, I just read it and I started changing my lifestyle, changing my diet. So I told my doctor that I don't want any surgery anymore. I don't want any drugs, nothing. So I started changing, implementing a new diet. I make green smoothie every day and then start cutting meat one by one until finally I was able to switch everything. So I was on a plant based at some point. So I'm not completely vegan or vegetarian, I'm just trying to find what is best for me. So six months after that, the doctor said, what did you do? Your tumor is gone, but the doctor's still giving me Tamoxifen, I still kept taking it because she said, I'm still young. I was diagnosed when I was 36 and she said, okay, because you have an aggressive type, your cancer can come back in five years so you should be on hormone therapy. So I told my doctor that I don't want anything removed, no more surgery. So the first time the tumor was gone, she just said it was a surprise. Maybe it was something of a fault test or something. So I kept taking Tamoxifen more and more and the tumor started growing again. The second time I was able to shrink the tumor, it happened three times until my oncologist said, okay, yes, your hormone therapy is actually causing your tumor to grow. So it took three times for my oncologist to convince me that it was the hormone of therapy that caused that. I knew that, so that time I already have knowledge, I already know what to do with my body so I was not afraid of cancer anymore. So that's my turning point, that's why I want to take control of myself and I start changing. It seems like I have my new life since then. So I have been doing this for more than 10 years now. I've been cancer free for 10 years. Carl: Congratulations. Natalie: Thank you so much, that's how I started to really pay attention and really interested and I want to become a cancer coach and help other people. Carl: Yeah. Make your cancer mean something. Natalie: It does. Carl: Yes. So I hear many similar stories. In fact I might've shared this before with some other coaches, but my mother had breast cancer and she did radiation and I'm not sure if she did chemo, I was pretty young at the time. So she was a statistic of somebody who lived through breast cancer because she lasted more than five years. So they say you're a survivor, but she did die of cancer and it was cancer and that was in her intestinal area. It was actually on top of it. It was strange. So just like you said, the cancer came back and just like you said, a lot of people that the cancer comes back, they must change their lifestyle. Natalie: So that was the thing that I started questioning because when I took the conventional treatment, I did not have any knowledge. My doctor did not tell me, she just said, oh, you can eat everything, but just reduce red meat to just a couple of meals per week and I hear a lot of information from my friends, from the media and it just gets confusing. At some point at the beginning, I actually refused everything because I don't trust anyone. Then I realized why a lot of people have cancer return. So conventional treatment is not the answer. Then I start searching for the truth. Then I realized that, oh my God, I have to do something because I don't want to be like others that have cancer return again. So that's what I start searching and learning and learning and here I am, I believe that my knowledge can help others and if I can save someone's life or someone can use my information, my knowledge that I have been studying for more than 10 years, I want to help other, I want to be the person who opening that door and show them and tell them here. There are so many roads, so many paths that you can choose how to get well without using a conventional treatment or if you want to integrate it both, you have to do something. You have to protect yourself, not to really get cancer again; I have seen some people, some of my clients, that they did not prepare themselves and then when they receive chemotherapy or radiation and they just get sick and sicker, and then they cannot tolerate the medicine, they cannot tolerate the drugs and they didn't make it and that is so sad. That is why this information is not there for people to know this. Carl: Yeah. It seems that well here in America, when somebody has any type of heart issue, anything, they usually leave the doctor's office with a laundry list of things to do, eat less salt, get more exercise, lose some weight, less red meat. But when we go to the oncology office with cancer, they don't tell you anything it seems, at least in regards to how you can participate in your own healing the way that they deal with heart issues say you get to be a participant, you get to be part of the healing process. So yeah, and what you said about integrative approach. So we don't ever say to anybody don't follow your doctor's advice that would just put us out of business in a heartbeat and set us up for liability. But we absolutely do say look with what our advice is let's change the terrain of your body. Let's get you in the best position for your body to help itself heal because the medicines and the radiation do not heal the cancer, it kills the cancer. Natalie: And it's temporary. Those treatments kill the cancer but just for a very short time. Carl: Right. Right. And you've got to change your lifestyle like you said, like you did, an excellent example, right. You're a role model and that's a great thing. You show how you can come back and have a vibrant life. Yeah, love it. So how did you find beat cancer? Natalie: So I have been studying, searching, I'm always learning and I actually want more and more information. Then I took health coach training from IIN Institute for Integrative Nutrition. When I'm done with that it gives me an overview of how to become a health coach, but then I want a specific cancer coach. Then I Google it and I have been looking for many, many places and this is it. When I watched the video, when I watched Susan talking and I was like, I have to enroll into this program and that's how I found beat cancer.org. Carl: Oh, that's great. That's great. So what was it about the course that you feel that you gained knowledge wise that helped you over the other things that you have already learned? Natalie: My favorite part, I have three favorites. One is the mind, body, spirit part; I never heard it from anywhere about characteristics of cancer patients, especially Susan summarized more than 30,000 patients that she interviewed and she summarized each type of cancer, breast cancer, uterus cancer, kidney and lung cancer. It’s just amazing that when I look at myself, I ask myself, yes, is this true and moreover, I try to use that information because I already started having clients before. So I start asking questions when they come to me, I ask, okay, what type of cancer do you have? And I started applying the knowledge from what I learned from Beat Cancer and every single one said it correctly, how did I know that? It seems like I'm a fortune teller, but I said based on the studies as Susan did that and I was like it is amazing for me about my body's connection about each type of cancer. So that's my first impression is my favorite information that I learned from beat cancer. The second one is the document. Oh my God, it was just like massive, all what I want to know including diet, what to eat, what not to eat and there the chart about the mind, the spirit, the spiritual, what to do, the A-Z kinds of food, the superfood, everything, all the documentation that this organization gathered. It's so valuable, it's much more than the tuition fee that I paid. Honestly, you get a lot more. The bonus is a plus, everything that I want to learn about cancer that is always document there. So the third part that I like a lot is the example of the interview, the case study and showing real examples, how to interview and how to ask questions, how to ask the right question to clients and observation about the patient, when they respond and what we should ask and that I think is very good. I didn't learn from anywhere else. So that's my, the best favorite parts that I learned that's a lot more than that though. It's a lot, but if I pick the top three, that would be it. Carl: Yeah. The bonus area was something I did after Susan retired. I felt like everything that we had in digital format, all the books, all the videos, all the audio recordings, I wanted our coaches to have all of that and I just threw it all in. Everything that she's ever done for 35 years I wanted you guys to have it. So I'm glad you mentioned that, that makes me feel good that you took advantage of that and enjoyed that. Natalie: Oh, I go through everything. I cannot remember everything though. I think I have to go through that again and again, there's so much information and I'm just so excited. I was one of those people that was really crazy about learning. I never stopped learning, and this is always something for me to learn. Carl: Yeah. It's just the beginning that our course is just the beginning. It's to set you on the right course for your journey and I don't know; where are you working at right now? Natalie: Where am I working right now? Carl: No, no, your country. Natalie: Oh, I’m originally from Thailand and most of my clients, they are Thai, but they're living in the US; most of my clients they are in Thailand and I have people from all over the world. Some people, some Thai people live in Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland and some in France,.It's very exciting to be a coach and I'm able to help people around the world. Carl: Yeah. I love it. I love it. It just seems like we get one person and all of a sudden all over the world, they're teaching people and I love it that you're teaching the Taiwanese and bringing it to the Taiwanese culture and you're just a shining example. Natalie: Yes. Especially when I've been living in the US more than 20 years. When I talk to Thai people about cancer, they don't have information like how I have here. So I see that's why no one tell them about this. There may be cancer coaches in Thailand that I haven't met, but I see that there are some information that is very valuable, that they should know about this and I started with clients in Thailand first because I wanted to help them and I also have clients here in the US as well. I just see that Thai people need someone to really share this information, because it's a lot of information. I see that they're still; I was thinking about myself 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with cancer. Nobody tells me anything about alternatives, so I think Thailand, it just like back then there's still like, everything is about chemotherapy. You must take chemotherapy only, radiation only and you should not take any supplements because it's going to interfere with chemotherapy. So when I heard that from Thai people, I was like no, no, no, no, that's not true. All this information, I don't want to put the word that they are behind here. It's just nobody delivered this message to them. So that's why I want to tell them and I also have lots of people and friends back in Thailand that have cancer. So I start with that. Carl: So with the cookbooks and the A-Z guide do you feel that there's enough variety in there to cook Thai style with those foods? Natalie: Oh, that's a very good point because when I start talking about changing diet, eating plant based, people wondering what is the plant based diet. We know that we need to eat plants, but exactly how? And then when I start talking about eating salad, people would just really put that off because, oh, no, that's only food for Western. It's just the name of the dish. I said, don't think about it as a Western dish, you should eat as close as natural as possible. So it's true that the salad dish, the diet that we learn here in the US, it doesn't fit the culture in Thailand because people eat a lot of cooked food, curry. They use a lot of curry. They eat fresh, raw vegetables, but in a different way, a very different way. So when I started to eat salad, everybody thought about salad dressing in a way that you have to use eggs and oil. Carl: Yeah. Well, maybe you'll have to come up with some great Thai recipes. Natalie: Then I started learning more and more, also using the Thai culture, the food in Thailand, what is safe for cancer patients? So I started an online course. Carl: Oh, great. Natalie: Yes. So I started the online course, I started with colon and liver detoxification and introducing green juice and changing diet and doing coffee enema, helping people to get rid of the toxins. Then I launched another online course beating cancer naturally. Then I start introducing using the Gerson therapy protocol and mixed with some of the vegetables that people can use and can find in Thailand and so I use Gerson therapy as my core that's because I learned Gerson therapy before I found beat cancer. Carl: Right. Right. And while we're not just one therapy, it seems like, I think we kind of give you a broad array of tools to use instead of just one singular approach. But you are right, we are mostly plant based and so is Gerson. Natalie: Right, right. Carl: Yeah. Well, that's great. You made the courses, you already beat me to it. I just didn't know about it. That's excellent. So okay, I'm going to give you the bonus question and, of course, I want you to tell people where they can find you, because if they're just listening to this on a podcast I want them to know where to find you. But the bonus question is if you could just give one tip to somebody getting started what would that be? The getting started in their cancer journey? Natalie: For someone who just found out that they've been diagnosed with cancer, I think the very first thing you need to understand is that you have cancer for years, you did not have cancer two days ago or two months ago, it has been for a long time. It could take seven to ten or twenty years. If you have lung cancer, it could be 30 years. So do not rush. I want you to step back and then just take a quiet moment and ask yourself, how did you get cancer and what you should do next. Most people, when they learn that they have cancer, they get frustrated, they have fears. When you make a decision with fears, you make the wrong decision. I want you to learn, I want you to search, ask people who have been there, who have experience, guide you what you should do so you have the right path. You don't want to try left and right and back and forth, you're going to lose time. Even though I said you have been having cancer for a long time, sometimes when they choose the wrong road, you're losing time and the cancer, it's true that it's growing all the time, but it's not as fast as when you know it. Think about two years, five years ago, you did not know that you have cancer. You never care about cancer. You...
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BC-075 Intro To A Coach: Jennifer Gale, Tools For Balancing Energy and Releasing Trapped Emotions
03/19/2020
BC-075 Intro To A Coach: Jennifer Gale, Tools For Balancing Energy and Releasing Trapped Emotions
Jennifer Gale is a Traditional/Classical Naturopath certified through the American Naturopathic Medical Certification Board (ANMCB) as well as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She also has certification as a Bio-Energetics practitioner working through the NES program. She gives workshops and lectures throughout the southeast Michigan area on all aspects of Natural Health - with primary focus on Nutrition, Herbs, Reflexology, , Organic Gardening, and Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis. Her most recent work is combining Thermal imaging into client care as a Thermo buzzer consultant. Her interest in cancer stems from the pain and feelings of helplessness she felt seeing many family, friends, colleagues, and others receive a cancer diagnosis and wanting to DO something. As she went through her Naturopathy work, she learned how to approach each person from a unique perspective. Today, Jennifer uses all of her knowledge, resources and connections to be a Beacon of natural education. Jennifer states, “I loved finding Beat Cancer as an organization because it immediately provided a community of people, resources, and credibility that took the same approach that I do with the mind/body/spirit connection, without forcing someone to do what we think is best, but instead supporting the person and their choices.” While I was doing the course work I came up with the idea of BEACON - A Half Day Retreat for Cancer Survivors, Thrivers, and their supporters. Listen to this podcast to learn about the modalities Jennifer uses in her practice that she is passionate about! 2:13 Jennifer’s health journey with asthma 4:03 How helped Jennifer’s asthma and how food sensitivities can be a trigger. 5:00 Jennifer speaks about emotional root causes of her health issues. 7:15 Jennifer becomes a Naturopathic Dr. 9:55 “What I’m definitely most excited about is helping people get to the point of understanding a true mind, body, spirit connection through energy work, and my work as an NES (Nutra Energetic Systems) practitioner is probably one of the most exciting ways of doing that”. 10:34 Jennifer talks about how we are energy and how balancing the body field can affect the physical body. 11:06 Explanation of a scan and what it can do. 14:16 Jennifer talks about how emotions get stuck in different parts of our body and disrupt our energy field. 17:02 There’s usually emotions underlying a cancer diagnosis. 18:04 Structured water and . 24:14 Reflexology as an assessment tool and for cancer. NIH gave millions of dollars to study reflexology for cancer, and the benefits for patient and their caregiver. 29:38 Infrared mat with Crystals and how it promotes circulation and helps energy flow freely by freeing up emotional or toxic blockages. 31:04 How points on the feet connect to the body. 36:16 for cancer. ProLon makes products that mimic fasting. 38:29 Jennifer finds Beat Cancer, , Susan Silberstein, and Healing Strong. 45:29 www.urbannaturopath.com is a lifestyle brand that encourages everyone to take ancient ways of living and understanding, but makes it relevant to today. Jennifer has a year-long concierge service. She is very excited about her Beacon event 6/20. It is a beacon of light and hope for anyone touched by cancer to see what the natural health world has to offer. or 586-461-1416.
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BC-074 Intro To A Coach: Kelly Collins on Living Your Most Vibrant Life with Cancer
03/02/2020
BC-074 Intro To A Coach: Kelly Collins on Living Your Most Vibrant Life with Cancer
Kelly Collins is a holistic cancer coach with Beat Cancer, and she is the founder of My Vibe Life. She has a BA in Economics and Political Science from The University of Arizona, and an MBA in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Through her 25 years in corporate America, Kelly found herself an exhausted road warrior with numerous health challenges. After growing frustrated with the medical community telling her she was fine when she knew she wasn’t, she decided to try naturopathic medicine and acupuncture. Through these things, and after eliminating all inflammatory items from her diet, Kelly not only got her health back, she was vibrant once again. She furthered her education through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and helped her father on his journey with Non-Hodgkin’s CNS lymphoma. Today she is empowering cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to take control of their healing path by educating them about wellness and recovery through lifestyle change that is centered on specific nutrition, supplementation, and certain alternative therapies and modalities. Kelly also believes on focusing on people as a whole – body, mind, and spirit. Listen to this podcast to learn about how you can live a vibrant life with a cancer diagnosis. 2:51 Kelly tells her story and how she went to a Naturopathic doctor and found out she had low vitamin D, low vitamin B 12, mercury toxicity, hypothyroidism, severe adrenal fatigue, and GI distress. 4:37 Kelly talks about removing wheat, soy, dairy, sugar, alcohol and coffee from her diet to decrease inflammation and increase brain function. 5:32 A few months prior to her dad being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s CNS lymphoma, Kelly enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. 6:01 Kelly learned about alkalinity and how important it was to cancer patients who are acidic. 7:30 Her father got relief for neuropathy from acupuncture. 8:13 Kelly talks about her father’s heart issues stemming from chemotherapy and the return of his brain cancer. 10:02 Kelly talks about the importance of taking care of yourself when you are a caregiver. 10:56 Kelly is enthusiastic about the Bemer and how it improves oxygenation. 12:48 Kelly got certified as a holistic cancer coach and launched her website, My Vibe Life in honor of her dad in November 2019. 13:52 She agrees with Susan Silberstein that we don’t need more research, we need more education. 14:58 Kelly talks about the importance of people with cancer having a choice and trusting their intuition. 16:51 Kelly states, “It’s never one thing that gets us sick so it’s not one thing that gets us well”. Kelly Collins Delray Beach, Fl 310-721-7515 [email protected] www.myvibelife.com Complementary gift- Kelly is offering a complementary 60 minute consultation and two complementary Bemer sessions for locals to Delray Beach Florida.
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BC-073 Jim and Kelly Webb Talk About Healing on a Spiritual Level and the Practice of Qigong
01/27/2020
BC-073 Jim and Kelly Webb Talk About Healing on a Spiritual Level and the Practice of Qigong
Cancer coach, Healing Strong group leader, martial arts teacher and cancer thriver Jim Webb was diagnosed with intermediate stage in May of 2018. He was already on a path of research and education when he was diagnosed, and knew that he didn’t want to go the conventional route of treatment. Since diagnosis his passion has been leaning about and teaching holistic methods and lifestyle changes to boost the body’s ability to heal. He has been in martial arts for 17 years, is a level 3 reiki practitioner and particularly enjoys helping men on their healing journey with cancer. He works with his wife Kelly. She is a holistic health coach, reiki master, medical Qigong practitioner, and together they own Full Circle Martial and Healing Arts. Listen to this podcast to learn about the life saving changes Jim has made on his cancer journey, and how important it is to embrace love, forgiveness, openness, spirituality, and energy healing practices such as Qigong, reiki, and meditation. 3:05 Learn about the benefits of sharing that Jim experienced as he explains how he immediately started a Facebook group called Thrive Don’t Just Survive after he was diagnosed. 4:58 Jim explains the changes he made in the areas of , diet, supplements, , and energy medicine. He learned by listening to The Truth About Cancer that 50% of all healing is emotional and spiritual. 6:50 Susan’s course () talks about the traits that are associated with certain cancers, and the traumas we have experienced that affect our bodies on a cellular level that need to be released. 8:00 Learn what Healing Strong is about and how important support, love, and a having a higher power are to the healing process. Jim also talks about spirituality and energy medicine and how men especially need to open up and do the emotional work for healing to take place. 15:15 Forgiveness for ourselves and others is explored, and how it frees up energy for repair when we have a cancer diagnosis. 18:00 Learn about Jim’s morning routine of , self-reiki, and self-love. Kelly Webb also talks about medical Qigong and how it can support the body to help with cancer. She tells us about her Facebook group people can join called Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Lifestyle. We also talk about essential oils to use to help the senses so the body can reach the parasympathetic state of repair. 30:36 Learn how you can make an investment in your health by understanding that the skin is largest organ in the body and how important it is to use high quality products on your body as well as high quality food, water, and supplements. 32:00 Learn about the value of organic food, farmers markets, and the Environmental Working Group’s work on rating clean and dirty foods. Learn about the safety issues of EMFs and 5G. Juice Plus and the Tower Garden to grow your own food, sprouts and herbs is discussed. 38:00 Learn ways to get out of your head when you have cancer and into the flow of joy. 42:30 Beatcancer.org and Healingstrong.org benefits and the importance of prevention are discussed. 49:43 Jim and Kelly talk about their Martial arts school, Full Circle Martial and Healing Arts, where they have local classes. They are certified in adaptive martial arts and para Taekwondo. Many of their clients are 50+ years old and/or have health or body related issues. Jim Webb (and Kelly Webb) 530-417-4415 or 4416 Cameron Park, Ca Website:
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BC-072 Intro To a Coach: Eli Hans on Connecting To Your Intuition and Your Future Healthy Self During Treatment
01/17/2020
BC-072 Intro To a Coach: Eli Hans on Connecting To Your Intuition and Your Future Healthy Self During Treatment
Cancer thriver, Eli Hans was diagnosed in 2014 with a rare and aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. With only a 10% survival rate, Eli reconnected deeply with this intuition and discovered life-saving, holistic and integrative strategies that helped him not only to survive, but to thrive. Today he is a with Beat Cancer, life coach and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, motivational speaker and workshop leader. Learn more about . Listen to this podcast to learn how healing is absolutely possible and how it must occur at the core level to address physical, emotional, spiritual, nutritional and other life imbalances. Eli will also explain how cancer is a multi-factorial result of factors that we can counteract to get back on the road to wellness. 1:50 Learn about how Eli did his research and came to a place of peace with his treatment decision, reframing as love juice. 4:53 Eli speaks about his experience with his holistic oncologist and the balance he struck with his conventional oncologist. 5:56 Eli talks about how cancer is a multifactorial result of imbalance and what changes he needed to make on his healing journey. 7:15 When Eli hit his 5 year mark after diagnoses he decided he really wanted to help others on their cancer journey. 8:45 The cancer journey can feel endless, but it’s temporary. A cancer coach can help so much in navigating the process for the person diagnosed with cancer, and also their caregivers. 15:11 The cancer retreat in San Miguel that Eli and Joseph offer teaches the anti-cancer lifestyle and the mindset of being a cancer thriver. Eli talks about the different modalities and services offered. 19:26 Fear vs Peace is discussed as it relates to cancer, and the importance of connecting to your intuition when making decisions. 22:32 We can heal our life and attain harmony. Eli had the belief that somehow he would thrive after this experience, and that the pain was temporary. His legacy is to help others.
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BC-071 Intro To a Coach: Annette Tello Helps Women With Cancer To Reduce Stress and Gain A Sense of Control Through Creative Expression
01/06/2020
BC-071 Intro To a Coach: Annette Tello Helps Women With Cancer To Reduce Stress and Gain A Sense of Control Through Creative Expression
Annette Tello has 25 years of experience in rehabilitation counseling and specializes in life transitions coaching. In the last five years, she has concentrated her efforts on working with women with cancer. She has developed her Creative Rx Coaching program and written an award winning book called Creative Prescriptions for Women with Cancer-Tools for Tapping into Your Stress-free, Creative, Happy Healing Space. Art making was an instrumental tool in her own healing from cervical carcinoma in her 30s, and was also key in dealing with stress and anxiety as a child in an abusive household. Annette wrote Creative Prescriptions for women to explore the process of creating in a way where they could tap into the healing benefits of self-reflection and self-discovery. Creativity is a prescription to reduce , raise spirits, and gain a sense of control over one’s own health. Listen to this podcast to learn about the benefits of creative expression for the healing process and how it can help to release emotions so a new authentic self can emerge. Learn about Annette’s experience with creativity and how her book and her programs can help anyone on their cancer journey. 3:11 For the first time I experienced being mindful and completely centered and grounded. I experienced blissful moments in the creative zone. The finished products gave me things like recognition and positive praise. Art making saved my life. 5:20 In Dr Bernie Siegel’s book, Love, Medicine and Miracles he tells his patients to find something that puts them in the creative zone, because that’s the most healing state the body can be in. That can be gardening, music etc. 6:58 Creating art for product is very different than creating art for process. I wanted art to be a tool for me, not to make a living. So I got a degree in Psychology with a major in art. And then I got a Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. 8:23 My whole life had been working with people recovering from accident or illness who need to reinvent themselves. 8:39 In the last six years, I got a job with Jewish family services working with women with . During this time I got the idea for my book. I saw women were lost and didn’t have the tools they needed for their life. 10:19 There are 6 prescriptions in the book with activities. 13:34 When you have cancer you have to heal body, mind and spirit because you are an intuitive, creative, spiritual, intellectual and emotional being and all those parts of you need to be part of the healing process. 16:57 The book is user friendly. The supplies are not a lot of money, and you don’t need to be artistic. It’s about the process of creating for healing benefits. You are in the flow, relaxing, and having fun like when we were children. 19:23 You can do the activities and get what you need in the moment, but you can go deeper and journal. This books helps people to be able to move on with their lives after treatment because they’ve dealt with their emotions. 25:55 I have found that the women that I work with and have cancer that have a strong faith, not necessarily religion, do better with treatment. A spiritual practice is a powerful tool to lean on. You can start with positive affirmations. Annette Tello M.S. San Diego, Ca 619-485-1343 [email protected] Author: Creative Prescriptions for Women With Cancer-Amazon Upcoming: Online creative live program 2/2020 with coaching
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BC-070 What To Say And What Not To Say to Cancer Patients
01/06/2020
BC-070 What To Say And What Not To Say to Cancer Patients
Do you know someone that was recently diagnosed with cancer and you don’t know what to say? In this podcast, Jeanette Carbajal talks with Debra Nicholson, the Director of Community Outreach for to help you determine what not to say to cancer patients. The last thing you want to do is create guilt and shame to a patient and unwittingly impede their healing process. Jeanette teaches us how to come from a place of love and pure honesty at all times with any questions or suggestions we may give to a cancer patient. She covers topics like things you can say when you first find out, what not to say, suggesting treatment options, and what sympathetic vs. parasympathetic nervous system responses are. She suggests three questions you can ask to determine the values of your loved ones. If you are struggling to know what to say to a person in your life that was recently diagnosed, then this podcast is for you! 1:00 What you can say to any cancer patient 3:00 What is future tripping and how to avoid it 4:00 What to say instead of “Let me know if you need anything” 5:30 Knowing the “Rules of the House” 6:35 The 2nd most disempowering questions you can ask. 8:15 Helping the caregiver 9:00 How to choose treatments that align with values 10:00 Avoiding the comparison game 12:00 Loving unconditionally 14:00 Avoiding Facebook Ads & “The Gifting Suite” 16:00 Allowing grief to happen 18:00 Three things not to say to a cancer patient 20:00 Don’t be a mind reader 21:30 Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic nervous system responses and what they are 22:00 Learning to accept the diagnosis and denying the prognosis 24:00 How to avoid family controversy 24:30 Alternative vs. conventional cancer treatment options 26:00 3 things to understand about a cancer patient 28:00 Knowing your self worth as a cancer patient 29:00 Overcoming isolation 30:00 What you gain from group sessions 31:00 Why it’s important to find a professional to share your story and feelings with 32:00 Inviting a cancer patient to physical and outdoor activities 33:00 What to share on Facebook & creating your own group 35:00 Gifting plants & flowers About Jeanette Jeanette Carbajal CHHC, CCC, is a speaker and life mentor to cancer patients and their caregivers. She helps high achieving professional women and caregivers that are recently diagnosed. By providing individual coaching, personal caregiver support, Executive cancer coaching, and corporate cancer counseling, she helps patients and their caregivers reclaim their options, and create a healing roadmap for their families, career, and new lifestyle. Jeanette ultimately helps these women regain control in their lives once again. Phone: (562)-964-8178 Website:
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BC-069 Intro To A Coach: Beverly Dymond Teaches us How Important Releasing Trapped Emotions is for Healing from Cancer
01/03/2020
BC-069 Intro To A Coach: Beverly Dymond Teaches us How Important Releasing Trapped Emotions is for Healing from Cancer
Beverly Dymond is a holistic health practitioner and cancer coach. She has a counseling and social work background, but she decided to get certified in The Body Code and The Emotion Code after experiencing emotional release with a practitioner during her own journey of physical and emotional pain. Beverly believes that it is vital for people with cancer to let go of trapped negative emotions for true healing to take place; physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Listen to this podcast to find out more about what trapped emotions are, how they affect the healing process, and how The Body Code can help with releasing them. 1:58 I was working in Mexico at a natural clinic and what I found was every person that I worked with had some trauma and/or serious emotional trouble just before diagnosis that was not being addressed. 5:06 Trapped emotions can come from childhood or your ancestors and can be passed on through generations. 6:59 Negative emotions can be trapped in an organ or a gland and they can cause pain, discomfort, or imbalances. 8:02 Trapped emotions could be grief, unforgiveness, anger etc. that can cause issues with relationships. 11:52 If you want to talk during your session you can, but if you don’t want to you can just release it. So I like that you don’t have to relive things. 14:02 I wanted to take the course so I would have more knowledge and more understanding when I’m doing the Body Code. I’m glad I did. When I work with people with cancer I feel more equipped and more understanding, and I feel that I can help people to be more empowered to make their own choices. 16:01 Cancer can bring change to your life and make your life better than it ever was. It can be a roadblock but let’s take a detour. I want to help people with that. 19:30 Before I do a session I pray because I believe this is not my work. At the end of a session I send positive energy to the person because I want them to be hopeful and excited about their life. Even if their conscious mind says everything is horrible right now their subconscious mind will except my message that this is a good life, I’ve got a good future, I will be healthy and I’m healing.
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BC-068 Intro To a Coach: Healing Strong Group Leader and Stage 4 Cancer Thriver, Joe Gentle Wants to Clear Up And Help Others To Be Their Own Advocate
01/02/2020
BC-068 Intro To a Coach: Healing Strong Group Leader and Stage 4 Cancer Thriver, Joe Gentle Wants to Clear Up And Help Others To Be Their Own Advocate
Joe Gentle was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer 2 1/2 years ago. While he is still undergoing treatment, Joe is a cancer thriver and a Healing Strong group leader that wants to help others. He has a passion for being available to others to clear up all the confusing information and to let people know that they are supported and that healing is possible. Listen to this podcast to learn about what has helped Joe on his healing journey, and how a Healing Strong support group meeting can help you on your healing journey. 3:07 Cancer patients can extend their life expectancy by 40% by losing weight and getting . My doctor said to take 10,000 steps a day. 4:43 Modern convenience has cocooned us into this electric shell. Just getting out into nature and getting your feet in the ground (grounding) makes a big difference. 5:09 I’ve gone mostly vegetarian but Sunday is for comfort food. and exercise have been big changes and I make sure I get my . 6:04 I do fresh vegetable juices to get as much nutrition into my body. 6:33 When I was at the hospital waiting to have my first surgery, the Lord touched me and said I was going to be all right. 7:21 I want to produce results in people’s lives. 9:55 A Healing Strong group meeting is a conversation with a coursework curriculums that I pass out before the meeting. The last meeting we talked about forgiveness and touched on breathing techniques, and also a prayer. 11:58 I took the with Beat Cancer because I realized early on that I was in over my head. I had only been focusing on and solid tumors for 2 1/2 years. I needed a groundwork and a baseline understanding to take people from square one to square two gently, with love, letting them know we can do this. It’s doable. It’s a good hands-on practical approach that if you heal the body sometimes the cancer goes away. 13:48 Our Healing Strong group meetings meet once a month, but I am open to more if someone needs more. I’m in the Bay City Michigan area. 14:50 You can find a group meeting at www.healingstrong.org where there is a map to look for meetings in your area. You can email or call me with questions. I am happy to help 24/7. 17:08 Healing Strong Is Bible-based but we are not a church and this is not an evangelical effort. We are trying to clear up confusion and help the people that are scared, alone and confused. 18:38 I hate it when someone’s eternity is screwed up. There’s a book called Cancer Can’t Kill You When You’re Already Dead by Dr. Kevin Connors. It’s a short read. It only took me one hour to get through, and it points out that this is not all there is. Eternity is real.
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BC-067 Intro To A Coach: Linda Yalen On The Root Causes of Disease-Stress, Environmental Toxins, and Digestion Issues And The Benefits Of Balancing Our Energy
12/09/2019
BC-067 Intro To A Coach: Linda Yalen On The Root Causes of Disease-Stress, Environmental Toxins, and Digestion Issues And The Benefits Of Balancing Our Energy
Linda Yalen’s own health journey of digestive issues, weight gain, and low cortisol from a high stress lifestyle led her on a path of discovery. She also has had many family members with cancer that she has helped. Today, she is an author and is certified as a health coach with IIN, cancer coach, herbalist, energy medicine practitioner, and she is currently taking a certification course on environmental toxins with Lara Adler. Listen to this podcast to learn about the root causes of our symptoms and what can help. Please refer to the links for education on environmental toxins, essential oils, and the importance of organic food. 5:00 What I loved about Beat Cancer is they’re a non-profit and the course doesn’t teach coaches to tell people not to do the treatments they choose, but instead it backs up education with scientific proof which allowed me to speak with validity. 7:37 is the number one cause of most diseases. 8:07 When cortisol levels get low from stress you are susceptible to disease. You can test cortisol levels with a saliva test. , grounding, and deep breathing will help put yourself in a good place energetically and will help balance your chakras, which are your energy points. 10:09 You can get blockages in your heart area from heartbreak which can allow breast cancer to develop if you don’t release stress and allow yourself to grieve when necessary. There is a relationship between energy flow and disease. 12:15 It is a good idea, pre-and post surgery to have an energy healer work on you so energy free flowing. It accelerate healing of the body. I specialize in crisis and hospice. Reiki also helps heal the family. 14:40 Hormones and digestive issues go hand-in-hand. Everything starts in the gut. You can get a gut test to see if you have nutrient deficiencies or food sensitivities. Sleep deprivation affects hormone health. It’s important to be tuned into your symptoms. 16:45 Health coaches come into play to help with symptom analysis, using tools and test to problem solve to find the root cause and then make small changes in the right direction. 19:15 Hydration and sleep play a huge role in our health, as well as environmental toxins and the foods we eat. 21:50 One important thing to do is to chew your food until it’s liquid so the body doesn’t have to work so hard to digest. Also, when you eat sit down, turn off the TV and do not multitask while you’re eating. 23:22 Being on computers until bed can affect our health because of the blue light they give off. Be aware of 5G, the devices in your home, and the environmental toxins in your environment. I am taking a course with Lara Adler who is an environmental toxins expert, www.laraadler.com 28:33 www.EWG.org is the environmental working group and they go to place for safe products, food, cosmetics, etc. There is also a great app for your phone that they have. Linda Yalen Hebron, Connecticut Phone: 860-494-0488 Clean Living Health Books:
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BC-066 Intro To a Coach: Diane Burton on the Effects of Negative Emotions on our Health and how to Realize the Masterpiece Within
12/09/2019
BC-066 Intro To a Coach: Diane Burton on the Effects of Negative Emotions on our Health and how to Realize the Masterpiece Within
Cancer Coach, Health Coach, Grief Coach, TED X Speaker (From Bullied To Bold), and Author Diane Burton experienced bullying as a child because of her weight issues. Even after losing the weight, she was still carrying the negative self-image with her through her adult life. She finally was able to release it after becoming a grief coach, and now helps others to release pain and trauma so they can find their way out of dis-ease and into joy and peace. Diane is an advocate to guide people to enhance their nutritional, psychological and immune status. She supports patient empowerment through individualized and innovative science-based resources in preventative, holistic, integrative, complementary and alternative medicine. Listen to this talk to learn more about how negative talk and emotions impact our state of health and how important love and forgiveness are for healing to take place. Diane will talk about the emotional, spiritual, physical aspects that affect our immune system and how important it is for them to all be balanced. 3:00 The stories we tell ourselves are negative stories. In my TED talk I explain how I said negative things over and over as if those words were written on the mirror because when I looked in the mirror I saw that fat person. I saw ugly, stupid, and worthless instead of seeing the amazing creation God gave me. 3:50 When you carry bullying comments in your body it causes stress and dis-ease. 7:26 Stop and look at the rose like it’s the first time you saw it. Instead of being busy, be productive. Stop and ask yourself are you happy in life and finding joy, are you doing what God put you on this earth to do, and are you being your authentic self? 9:15 It’s emotional, spiritual, physical. I like to call these the three immune system’s. If one is out of whack they are all out of whack. 12:58 When people can love who they are they can love others. It won’t matter what somebody does to you, you will still have love for people. When we carry anger, and bitterness and hatred we cause illness and disease. 13:42 Love and forgiveness are everything. I had to forgive myself for beating myself up mentally. By forgiving myself I could forgive others and this gave me peace. I had to learn to take 100% responsibility for everything in my life and how I react and respond. When I learned to rejoice in all circumstances in my life and to look for the lessons, blessings, and gifts it turned into my ministry. My mess became my message. 16:15 A cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. It can be a life sentence. It’s an opportunity to make changes in your life, the way they think, eat, and talk. Find the gifts in everything in life to find joy and peace. 19:49 Research has shown there are certain emotions tied to certain . When we release the grief and trauma the body opens up to healing. 21:18 When you replay things and find yourself in negative thought processes that’s when you know you have stuff stuck down that you need to let go of. 22:22 is my book. It’s a preacher’s wife’s journey from a broken and fat masterpiece to the Master’s Peace. It’s 10 chapters each is a question with 4 answers so people can do it like a 40 day devotional. It’s full of scripture with my story intertwined and talks about how to take care of yourself physically to be your best spiritually. 27:35 After I became a I realized cancer is only 5-10% genetic therefore I have to take care of myself. I invite the audience to have a 20 minute call with me by going to my websites and sending me a message or emailing me so they can heal the body before disease starts. And learn to eat to live instead of living to eat.
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BC-065 Intro To A Coach: Bonnie Schnautz ND LDHS, Talks About 3 Root Causes of Dis-ease: Emotional, Physical, and Nutritional/Chemical Stress
12/01/2019
BC-065 Intro To A Coach: Bonnie Schnautz ND LDHS, Talks About 3 Root Causes of Dis-ease: Emotional, Physical, and Nutritional/Chemical Stress
Bonnie Schnautz is a Naturopathic Doctor, Loomis Digestive Health Specialist, and founder of B Renewed Wellness Solutions. Through Bonnie’s own health issues, she realized the power of food. She rid herself of the many symptoms that were causing her allergies, asthma, bouts of the flu and sinus infections, anxiety and , hormone issues, IBS, etc through whole organic foods. She also came to realize that emotional can override every good choice we make, and today uses meditation as her #1 tool. View this podcast to learn more about what emotional, physical, and nutritional/chemical stressors are and what we can do to achieve harmony in our bodies. 2:10 It was a fluke that I changed to an all organic diet and all my health issues went away. 5:00 Food can be our most healing modality or our worst poison. We know have fiber and antioxidants and that is what heals. 7:10 Through nutritional testing we can find the root cause, which falls under 3 areas of stress. Emotional, physical, or nutritional/chemical. 8:05 A big part of our testing is with neurotransmitters to see what is going on in the brain. 9:28 It was when I saw my transformation that I went back to school to be a naturopathic doctor. I needed more education to be equipped to work with people with cancer. I met and I was so impressed with her story, her credentials, and her teachings, and I knew I wanted that as part of my resources to help others. The program was a Godsend and Susan is such a gift. There are no guarantees, but the things that we teach cannot harm and are only going to help, whether you are doing full blown alternative treatment or we are supporting your treatment with your doctor. 11:42 What I was missing was the emotional component. And that’s what Susan brought to light. I ended up with adrenal fatigue and then I understood. Adrenal fatigue can develop into cancer. I was doing all the right things, but I wasn’t protecting my energy and my mind. I wasn’t protecting myself emotionally and I got sick. 13:28 The emotional component can override all of our choices. 15:04 Find someone you resonate with as far as . Doctor Joe Dispenza has phenomenal research on healing through meditation. That’s the #1 way of balancing stress. 16:30 Through gratitude we can create self-love for healing. 18:05 Type A personality types are more susceptible to cancer and we need things to level us out. 21:10 Beat Cancer is such an incredible organization. I can’t recommend the free resources enough. I am forever grateful to Dr Susan Silberstein for her work and her research and the tools we have today because of her that we can use to help others to beat cancer and also prevent it for future generations.
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BC-064 Cancer Survivor, Master Esthetician and Teacher Becky Kuehn’s Mission Is To Restore Cancer Patients’ Unique Beauty
11/20/2019
BC-064 Cancer Survivor, Master Esthetician and Teacher Becky Kuehn’s Mission Is To Restore Cancer Patients’ Unique Beauty
Becky Kuehn started her journey in 1978 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer at the age of 18. She realized that there was not a lot of help for losing your eyebrows and your hair, or on how to deal with skin issues. She was in beauty school at the time and she really wanted to find a way to bring her schooling and cancer together, because when you go through the journey of having cancer, quality of life is so important and people need help to feel good on the outside. Listen to this podcast to learn about the services that are available to people with cancer who are having side effects from treatments or are in need of spa services to feel like themselves again. Also, if you a professional who could benefit from becoming oncology trained, this podcast is for you. 4:19 can cause different side effects and we help people going through radiation therapy to prep the skin with pure calendula oil. Immunotherapy or bio therapy and anti-cancer drug therapy all have side effects such as dry skin, rashes, red blotches, loss of color of skin, etc and we can help them be more comfortable and give them some normalcy back so they can go to work. 6:15 We offer free wigs at my 2 locations. We teach people how to put on brows safely with cosmetics. 7:09 I am in the Seattle Washington area working with the CHI group and 8 different hospitals. We offer treatments at no cost. With my teaching I have over 4500 grads, and throughout the US we have 26 locations where we have somebody in a cancer center that can help patients in that area. The goal is to have someone oncology trained everywhere in the US in salons and hospitals. 8:31 It is very important when you are looking for a spa professional to ask if that person has been oncology trained. 9:04 Incorrect massage can trigger lymphedema, so make sure if you have had lymph nodes removed that the massage therapist is trained in oncology. 10:06 We have grown from 6 classes in 2013 to 51 classes today. Oncology Aesthetics is now an official modality. 10:45 We just launched where there is a locator to find someone who is oncology trained. 11:37 I believe in continually learning. I found Susan and Beat Cancer and I flew out to Pa and took the Holistic Cancer Coaching course. I learned so much, especially how to work with someone holistically or whole body. Learning all that was so beneficial and I refer to that over and over. 13:00 The skin is the largest organ of the body and medications almost always express in the skin. 15:00 Doctors, nurses, massage therapists, nail techs, aestheticians, spa professionals and anyone who can benefit from this knowledge can take our class.
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BC-064 Learn How To Eat After Diagnosis: A Candid Conversation About Cancer Pt 2
11/19/2019
BC-064 Learn How To Eat After Diagnosis: A Candid Conversation About Cancer Pt 2
Part 2: Beat Cancer Board Member Emeritus Andrea Anderson with Nutrition Commission, Talks About ‘Learning How To Eat in a Healthy Way After A Cancer Diagnosis’ Following Andrea Anderson’s aggressive Stage 2B / Stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis while pregnant, she was faced with 42 years of eating habits that needed to be changed. Listen to this podcast to learn how Andrea navigated changing her eating habits, addressing the emotional needs behind her cravings, and structuring a plan to keep her on track. She is also sharing her daily juice and salad here: 2:38 My friend wanted me to watch The Truth About Cancer. I watched all 9 part docuseries I learned about chemotherapy and the industry and I learned how food could heal. 3:43 Foods have the power to heal. In parallel, I was doing oncology and made an appointment with the Cancer Center For New Medicine because I heard their name on The Truth About Cancer Docuseries. 4:20 The foods that I ate as a kid with my family, the way we treated food, it was comfort and pleasure. Now I was introduced to food as medicine and in the state of chronic illness it’s about the therapeutic benefits of food. 5:06 I read The Anti-Cancer A New Way of Life book that became a guide for me. 5:43 I gave birth in July 2015 and my mother-in-law from Greece came and she was a big piece in learning how to cook veggies and how delicious they are with extra virgin olive oil, lemon and oregano, salt and pepper. It was exactly what my body needed. 7:34 I was juicing every day, first getting it from whole foods and flooding my body to make it alkaline and detoxing from chemotherapy at the same time. I was also taking baby steps to take out sugar, grains, alcohol. 9:43 Detoxing was also a big part of this with coffee enemas. I didn’t feel as sick as other people I’ve heard were. I bounced back after 2 days of every treatment. I was eating organic, good quality food. 11:37 I was feeling hungry and burned out. I didn’t know what to eat. 13:33 I did a slew of testing. I was taking about 60 supplements and did micronutrients testing, mitochondrial function testing, and a toxicity test for heavy metals. My A1C was good but nutritionally I still wasn’t good. This is where candida, parasites, and the gut health comes into it. 16:03 I felt like I was developing an eating disorder, orthorexia. People with chronic illness and cancer know they need to pivot and eat differently, but I almost wasn’t eating at all because I couldn’t get past the do not eat list. 19:17 I came across Chris Wark’s work. He healed with food and figured out how to make it simple. He taught me the trick of how to eat the same things every day. My life transformed at this point. I was focused on what I should eat and how to make it delicious. I incorporate different fats, textures, and the sweet and the creamy. It’s very low maintenance. 24:10 Half my plate is loaded with veggies, 1/4 of my plate is a protein source, and then the remaining is for olives or beans or complex carbs. I do olive oil on veggies and I cook with coconut oil in good cookware. 27:44 The sugar cravings were the toughest thing to battle. What worked for me was Bulletproof coffee with coconut oil and grass fed butter. I would do Intermittent fasting until 10-11am and break the fast with green juice. 31:25 You have to stop and think about what is fueling your desire for the food. I would look at food and say, why do I need this? What am I feeding? Do I need self care? A walk, a sauna, a hug? Slow down and connect with what’s behind the behavior. 36:47 I did coffee enemas 3 to 4 times a week, especially if I had strong cravings. 40:50 I have not felt like crap in the afternoon anymore because I eat a salad every day. 41:41 We didn’t go out to eat a lot. 43:22 I lifted the load of perfection because that made me sick, like eating disorder mentality. But I’m very careful about my habits. 47:28 You don’t want to put harmful things into your body and if you keep reaching for them you have to dig deeper and ask why do I need this? The urge is so powerful. What is it really about? Do I need to relax? Self-care? A hug? A walk? Reading a book? Mindfulness? Andrea’s go-to Green juice in this order! 1 cucumber 2-3 celery stalks 1/2 romaine lettuce 2-3 handfuls of spinach 1/2 - 1 granny smith apple (low glycemic) 1 lemon w/ peel removed 1 ginger piece (about the size of your thumb) - add more if you prefer! My Favorite Combination for Creating my perfectly, delicious Daily Salad! “Andrea’s Signature Salad” Lettuces: I like to mix in 2 different lettuces and a few handfuls of each options (spinach, butter lettuce, or arugula) Veggies: Cucumbers + Broccoli Sprouts + Cauliflower Rice + little bit of Green onions (I stick with these all the time!) Crunchy: Nuts. I’ll add in either pine nuts, walnuts, or pumpkin seeds. Entirely up to you but ensure they are plain and not store-bought as roasted. Sweet: Fruit (ie, Pomegranates, Blueberries or Strawberries only!) Salty: Roasted Sweet Potatoes cut into cubes – 1 tbspl of olive oil with Garlic Salt + Himalayan Salt + Cooked @ 400 for 45 min. Sauerkraut! I love this stuff! I’ll buy Bubbies and put in about ¼ - ½ cup at least. Creates a great texture and ‘juiciness’ almost to your salad. Garlic Olives. About 3-4! Creamy: Healthy Fats & Beans. I cut up half of an Avocado + add in a Creamy Dressing Option + 1 tbls of olive oil to the salad to help blend up the creaminess. I make a home-made, dairy-free Caesar Dressing ‘or’ sometimes I just a dollop of Avocado Chipotle ‘mayo’ from Primal Kitchen to give my salad a creamy kick! Beans. I’ll add in a few ‘gigante’ beans which are mediterrean style and delicious! But I would limit these to no more than ¼ cup as a protein source to your salad. Toppings: Organic, Hemp Hearts (I’ll put in 3 tbsp to get me 10 grams of plant-based protein!) Cheese: Special Occasion - I might add a few sprinkles of organic goat cheese or feta from time to time! Homemade, Dairy-Free, Caesar-like Salad Dressing (without anchovies!)– drop into food processor and blend! (Add 1 tbsp of water if needed to liquify to your liking) 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp Worcester sauce 1 pasture-raised egg ½ cup to ¾ cup olive oil 2 -3 cloves of garlic Salt-
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BC-062 Intro To A Coach: Sabine Hope
10/21/2019
BC-062 Intro To A Coach: Sabine Hope
Breast cancer survivor and thriver, Sabine Hope was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. Despite the fact that she only ate organic food and used natural products her whole life, and had no family history she experienced breast pain that ultimately led to a cancer diagnosis. She had a deep sense that she had to find out the cause of this cancer to be able to fully heal, and she learned that there is so much more to health than green smoothies. Listen to this podcast and learn about how Sabine got to the root cause of her breast cancer and how her journey led her to develop her holistic program, The 5 Essentials 6:03 Cancer came to me as a wake-up call and that I needed to listen. 6:59 Through my research I found The Center For Advancement in Cancer Education. Finding the cancer coaching course with Beat Cancer was like coming home, because the things that I believed in were the same things that Beat Cancer had already researched and believed in. 8:00 I did training in Multi-brain Integration coaching which is based on neuroscience. We have a head brain, a heart brain, and a gut brain and they are connected via the vagus nerve. We can tap into our issues in the head by going deeper into the heart and the gut to get the answers we need. 11:35 The more I work with women with and in the world of cancer, I realize trauma and and emotional well-being are key. 13:28 I developed an approach to healing called the 5 Essentials-Nourish, Flourish, Detox, Move, and Love. Joy must accompany each element. 17:24 It’s important to connect to what your passion is that makes you get excited to get up in the morning. 23:07 Back to normal can be a completely new normal. I do group coaching and 1-to-1 coaching and my approach is “From Breast Cancer to Butterfly”.
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BC-061 Intro To A Coach: Kim Meacham
10/14/2019
BC-061 Intro To A Coach: Kim Meacham
Kim Meacham was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 2016. With a determined spirit and a supportive wife, Kim went from being given 2 months to live to being in complete remission and feeling healthier than he ever had before. Kim and his wife Ingrid started Health & Success to counsel people to improve their quality of life from preventable or holistically-treatable diseases or conditions. Listen to this podcast to hear about the diet, lifestyle and spiritual changes he made that address all aspects of health necessary for healing. 5:11 Even though I thought I was eating the right way I wasn’t. I had an absolute problem with . 5:44 Along with sleep deprivation, I was getting 5-6 hours of sleep a night from the time I was 11 years old. 7:19 I had a hernia surgery in January 2016 and the surgeon detected some lymph node activity. 8:21 I found a lump that came out in the back of my neck. They also started to develop in my armpits and abdominal and groin area. In 12/29/16 I was diagnosed with stage 4 mantle cell lymphoma with 100% proliferation rate. My tumors were doubling in size every week. 10:03 We continued down a holistic path to feed my body so it had the nutrients it needed to survive 4 months of and bone marrow stem cell transplant. 11:50 Bone marrow transplant surgery is one of the most invasive, toxic treatments anyone can go through. 13:21 In the 20 days that I was in the hospital, I walked 92 miles with my IV pole. Other patients started walking for the first time. My energy and true passion to live inspired others. 14:21 I was told I was cancer free but they missed a small cyst in my lower back and it started to grow. I got an appointment with Dr Michael Wong at MD Anderson. 16:48 I told my Dr. not to ever give me an expiration date, so Dr Wong told my family I had less than 2 months to live. There was a clinical trial in phase 2 that was put on hold due to brain toxicity. 18:56 My wife had discovered a dried form of vitamin D mixed with olive oil that was supposed to help reduce tumors on the brain. I had been doing that twice a day for 6 months. When it came time for the trial to begin they couldn’t find any lesions on my brain. I was the first person to do this trial after FDA approval. 20:58 I went through a 24 day stay at MD Anderson for the trial. I had a softball size tumor and about 18 other external tumors. We worked hard to support my body through the 400 hours of chemotherapy and never had nausea, diarrhea, mouth sores or a lack of energy. I hid my supplements and herbs from the hospital so they wouldn’t take them away. 24:18 It’s a travesty the food that hospitals are feeding people that are trying to heal. 25:33 I almost passed away twice during the procedure. I told my Dr. I don’t know what dying feels like but I’m not dying. I had a positive attitude and walked 2 miles a day. 30:21 It was my cells, not the chemotherapy, that ultimately took these tumors that were as large as a softball and now they’re just ugly scars. 31:00 Take your life in your hands and make your own decisions. Don’t let your doctor make your decisions. He’s an advisor. It’s your life. Make your own decisions. 32:24 Pick a decision and go down that path until something tells you that you need to make a fork in the path. 32:49 SEEDS- Acronym for , , Emotion, Diet, and Supplementation at the cellular level. 35:32 I’ve been a green tea drinker for 40 plus years. 36:20 I do not miss a day of exercise. In 2017 I logged 1800 miles, and 2018 over 2000 miles. That was my internal drive. I do not recommend a hard core workout for someone who had been dormant. I believe in baby steps. 38:07 The emotional part of staying positive and focused on the task at hand is the biggest challenge. and prayer is a huge part of our life. I believe in energy. Positive energy from people praying for you makes a huge difference. 39:30 We eat 100 % organic, non GMO whole food. We have a substantial garden that I pick from. 40:22 I don’t tell anyone not to eat meat, but I personally don’t eat meat. If you do eat meat choose organic, pasture raised meat. 42:38 Do not eat dairy products. They are very inflammatory. 45:00 Processed and packaged is still processed and packaged. Read the ingredients. 45:55 Sleep deprivation and sugar were the culprits for my cancer. 47:53 It’s so important to have a cohesive family unit or support system for your treatment decisions. The vast majority of people that succumb to cancer succumb from a secondary diagnosis or from the treatments. The statistics just don’t prove that these treatments work for the vast majority 58:36 You need a cancer coach that tells you like it is, that gives you a direction that’s an option. What worked for me might not work for you, but I know that within a wide range of options there will be something that resonates with you. Because the only thing that works is something that you will follow. 1:00:1:01 I love the Beat Cancer site. You are providing a tremendous service to thousands of people and that’s why I decided to get the because I have so much respect for what you are doing. Kim Meacham Plano, Texas 214-236-2619 Kihealthandsuccess-Facebook, Instagram,YouTube
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BC-060 Breast Cancer Survivor and Medical Micropigmentation Specialist Elizabeth Turnbull Helps Others To Feel Like Themselves Again
09/20/2019
BC-060 Breast Cancer Survivor and Medical Micropigmentation Specialist Elizabeth Turnbull Helps Others To Feel Like Themselves Again
After reconstructive surgery from triple negative breast cancer, Beth received 3D nipple and areola tattooing. She was overjoyed to look “normal” again, and felt an overwhelming desire to learn this craft. She made it her mission to help fellow survivors to aesthetically match their outer physical beauty to their inward beauty in order to feel whole again. As a 5 year survivor and artist, she graduated from a course at Penn and now provides this service. Listen to this podcast to learn about Beth’s journey and about the tattooing procedure. :57 In 2014 I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. There were two tumors with two different types of cancer, one was the aggressive triple negative type. I had , double mastectomy, and proton therapy. I had a lot of issues after that including multiple skin infections. 2:24 I met with the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Penn and had Trim Flap surgery done where they make breasts from your stomach. 3:57 I decided to get 3D areola and nipple tattooing done. 4:18 After getting tattooed I decided I wanted to do this for others. I have an art background, and after this procedure was done I skipped to my car. It changed my life. 6:14-7:22 Listen here for details about about nipple and areola tattooing. 9:59 It made me feel like a woman again. Beth provides consultations and answers questions. She is currently taking Beat Cancer’s certified holistic cancer coaching course. You can contact her at: Elizabeth Turnbull 215-932-1808 Facebook: Elizabeth C. Turnbull LLC Instagram: ElizabethCTurnbull
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BC-059 Intro To A Coach: Jodie Lin Learned The Value of Nutrition and Stress Management To Manage Her Breast Cancer, IDC
09/19/2019
BC-059 Intro To A Coach: Jodie Lin Learned The Value of Nutrition and Stress Management To Manage Her Breast Cancer, IDC
Jodie Lin is a mom of five beautiful children, a breast cancer survivor, a runner, an attorney, a musician, a personal trainer, a health coach, and a cancer coach. As a breast cancer survivor, she spent the past five years really delving into the impact food has on the body, which foods will benefit each individual, and which can cause harm. After realizing her own diet lacked the essential nutrients her body needed to heal from cancer, she became passionate about helping people to understand the inflammatory process that food can create as well as the impact of proper nutrition so that they can learn to make the best nutrition and exercise choices that will keep their individual body in optimal health. Listen to this podcast to learn about Jodie’s journey from “pastatarian” to cancer coach as she navigates invasive ductal carcinoma and her passion to help others heal holistically from cancer. 1:25 It all started when I was a child and had to go on a lot of antibiotics for ear infections. 1:29 I became a vegetarian at the age of 10 purely by choice. 1:55 I was eating as a vegetarian later in life but was known as a “pastatarian” because I ate more pasta than vegetables. I ate iceberg lettuce. There was not a lot of the darker greens and color in my diet and fruit. 2:47 I had 5 kids and they opened my eyes to being able to be allergic to food and having inflammatory reactions to food and gut dysbiosis because of it. 3:31 Just before my 5th pregnancy I started a pain in my right breast. 4:00 I had a mammogram that showed micro calcifications and I was just to be monitored. 4:30 With the pregnancy of my 5th Child there was definitely telltale signs of something being wrong. 5:19 I went back to the Dr. 5 weeks after my son was born and had a follow up mammogram and I was told I had cancer. 5:38 80% of micro calcifications are benign. 6:00 There’s no breast cancer in my history. I was a runner and a mom of five and everything that I had read suggested that the more children you have the lower your likelihood of having breast cancer and I nursed them all which lowers your risk and I was very fit and healthy and at a healthy weight. So there was nothing in the literature to suggest that someone in my position we get breast cancer. 6:45 I had DCIS, ductile cell carcinoma in situ. I had a mastectomy and 7 weeks of radiation. 7:09 I really wanted to get to the root cause. I started to do research and learned about the impact of nutrition and that the sugar and soy I was eating, as well as white flour and processed foods was damaging my body. 8:02 I went to the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and became a health coach. 8:08 Eight years later I was doing great and I had put this all behind me until I started having pain in my right breast again, where I had an implant. 8:54 During the year prior to my diagnosis I experienced a lot of stress and trauma. My sister was diagnosed with cancer and my brother-in-law’s sister had been diagnosed with her 3rd round of metastatic breast cancer and passed away and my father passed away unexpectedly. 10:50 Through faulty testing with an MRI without contrast dye they decided my implant ruptured. 11:20 I went in for what was supposed to be a three hour surgery and they removed a lump that was tested and came back as invasive ductal cell carcinoma. 12:00 The piece I was missing was managing my stress. They caused inflammation and weakened my immune system. 12:22-13:50 I came to BeatCancer.org to understand my situation and to help others. 16:48 I've been trying yoga to quiet my mind. I’ve been journaling to help me cope. We are practicing gratitude as a family. 17:34 Everyone has to find the stress management mechanism that will work for them. Could be yoga, gratification, journaling or breathing. 18:15 JKL Well Health Coaching stands for Just Clean Living. 18:44 I like to do food testing to make sure the foods that people are eating or not causing them inflammation. 19:20 Symptoms are not always just gas and bloating. They can be eczema, psoriasis, joint inflammation, arthritis, hair loss etc.
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BC-058 INTRO TO A COACH: Jackie Bye Learn About The Breast Cancer Personality and How Coach Jackie Bye Learned What It Takes To Put Yourself First In Order To Heal
08/03/2019
BC-058 INTRO TO A COACH: Jackie Bye Learn About The Breast Cancer Personality and How Coach Jackie Bye Learned What It Takes To Put Yourself First In Order To Heal
2:23 I’ve always been one who likes to take care of people and a people pleaser, which goes along with breast cancer too, it’s that type a personality. 2:31 I went to the Peace Corps after college and was diagnosed with amoebas, giardia, and parasites and I had over 40 immunizations as well in the Peace Corps. When I got home I was never the same. I had no energy. 3:20 In 2016, I was running around with kids, had a stressful job, was not eating or sleeping well, and I was diagnosed with cancer. The source was my gut microbiome, the parasites, root canals, and cavitations that were identified on a dental thermogram. 4:25 Even though I was a people pleaser, I stood up to conventional doctors and said I’m not going to do chemotherapy and radiation. I knew I was running on fumes and I knew my body well enough to know it wasn’t going to work for me. 6:15 Vitamin C, and HOCATT- an infra-red sauna, ozone therapy with PEMF were all part of my treatment. 6:30 Or conventional approach is a one-size-fits all method, and when you treat cancer it has to be multi-pronged approach, because all of our bodies are different. 8:42 When you are diagnosed, you have time and choices and you don’t know that at first. Time is important. Take as long as you need to come up with a plan that resonates with you. Women have a great gut instincts we need to listen to. 9:57 I just put out a blog and a movement for healing breast cancer versus fighting breast cancer. It is counterproductive when you fight anything. Your body goes into fight or flight mode which means stress, which leads to inflammation, which leads to disease that can appear as auto immune disease or cancer. 10:52 My life needed to change. I was a people pleaser and had type A personality. I’ve learned to focus on me. Me first, then family. 11:14 For stress I walk my dogs in the morning while forest bathing and doing affirmations by Louise Hay, to get my mind out of fear. We must heal the mind first. The suppression of emotions, stress, and holding back resentments needs to be healed. It’s critical to find out where you are in your mind. Then I do 15 minutes of meditation and 20 minutes of yoga outside for extra grounding. And I also do rebounding once or twice a week with shoes on 13:17 I also see a therapist because I felt really heavy emotionally and I wanted to preserve relationships with my family. 18:46 I am a school counselor as well, so I’ve been meeting with students whose moms have cancer and they are hurting and having a hard time coping. I am working with kids and coaching moms to help their kids. 20:11 In my home there are no guessing games. My children know where I am and I share all the results of my tests. We have a meeting once a month for our family to talk and we keep the lines of communication open with our children. 20:47 The holistic cancer coaching course with Beat Cancer filled in the blanks for me with things I didn’t know so I could walk the walk. It empowered me and educated me to reach out and help others. It has great information and includes a great support system with other coaches. It hits on many topics to support others on their healing journey. Jackie is passionate about counseling mom’s with cancer and their children. Specialties: Holistic Cancer Coach, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, MS Psych/Counseling Email: Phone: 218.851.8875
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BC-057 Learn How Mari Beth Beat Cancer by Incorporating A New Lifestyle
07/08/2019
BC-057 Learn How Mari Beth Beat Cancer by Incorporating A New Lifestyle
Intro To A Coach: Mari Beth Nicastro-Price Becoming Disease Free Involves a Lifestyle Change 1:18 I thought I was living a healthy lifestyle, but in 2017 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I did a ton of research and I found out it’s not just what you eat. It encompasses a whole lifestyle change. 2:12 I hired a health coach myself and she got me through. It was a hard decision, but I opted out of conventional treatment and made lifestyle nutrition changes and now I’m cancer free. 3:20 I wished I could help people with all the knowledge I had, especially cancer patients, because every cancer journey is so unique. How Beat Cancer’s Holistic Cancer Coaching Course Helped Her To Heal Herself and Others 4:39-5:20 I found and your and I was so excited I signed up that day and did it alongside the IIN year-long health coach certification. 5:53 I had genetic testing done but it wasn’t for me. It threw me off. They just test you and tell you you have this gene and that gene. But a lot of people that have breast cancer don’t have that gene. I’m one of them. We all have mutated genes but it’s the way they were expressed that we have control over. A lot of it is about . I had stress and did not manage it well. It’s a whole lifestyle change needed. 7:39 You can’t just eat and expect to be disease-free. There’s a lot that goes with that that needs to happen. Stress Relief, Nature, Taking Breaks, and Making Healthy Eating Changes 9:28 My favorite stress relief technique is being out in nature. I do a lot of hiking and that’s where I am at peace. My morning routine starts at 5:30. I write in my gratitude journal then I go outside and it’s my time. 10:56 We are bombarded with light from TV, computers, phones, etc. My surgeon told me how that messes with your circadian rhythm. 12:45 My coworkers had been very stressed. We take a 15 minute walk in the morning and a 15 minute walk in the afternoon. You also get in touch with your spiritual side on a walk. 14:57 Cancer is not like it used to be. It’s not a death sentence anymore. 18:30 You need to recognize the root cause and fix it because you can’t keep going on the same way. 20:53 My lentil soup recipe on my website, is one of my favorites. 21:15 I’m a big believer in essential oils. 23:49 I try to teach my clients to crowd out your food instead of depriving yourself. I start with a huge salad with every you can imagine. Portion-wise that’s my main meal. Then I will have a little meat and/or maybe a little piece of sweet potato or quinoa. 24:40 So the only thing you have to cut out is processed foods and refined sugar. Mari Beth Nicastro-Price consults with people for prevention education or to support those with a cancer diagnosis. Email: Website: Facebook: Beyond Nutrition Coaching
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BC-056 Coach Paul Schmitendorf Speaks About The Importance of Having A Game Plan To Prevent, Heal From, and Prevent Recurrence From Cancer
06/03/2019
BC-056 Coach Paul Schmitendorf Speaks About The Importance of Having A Game Plan To Prevent, Heal From, and Prevent Recurrence From Cancer
The group of people most susceptible to getting cancer are those people who've already had it once and haven't made any changes to their diet, lifestyle, and other key risk factors. They typically haven't figured out what got them in trouble in the first place and addressed those issues. Whether you've had cancer once before or you'd like to never get cancer, having a simple cancer prevention game plan can make the difference. In this podcast we'll talk about how you can begin to take an active, conscious role in preventing cancer. At the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education we believe cancer is a highly preventable disease and that prevention starts with well thought out game plan. A simple game plan starts with a diet high in fruits and vegetables while reducing sugar, processed foods, meat, dairy, and omega-6 fats. Of course smoking is a key risk factor and should not be a part of a cancer prevention game plan. Getting 30 minutes of exercise a day can lower cancer risk considerably. Exercise can be as simple as going for a 30-minute walk on a daily basis. Another important aspect of a game plan it considering what negative or trapped emotions we're holding onto. Working through these by talking with a close friend or counselor can be an important step in living more joyfully and reducing cancer risk. It's also important to consider the level of stress in one's life. People tend to know when their lives have become overstressed. The key then is to take action steps to reduce stress, perhaps by changing jobs or ending toxic relationships. Simple stress relieving techniques like exercise, spending time in nature, meditation, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), yoga and Tai Chi can be helpful. Encouraging your "internal terrain" to detoxify on a regular basis is important for creating an inhospitable environment for cancer cells to grow. We can do this by fasting, cleansing, juice cleansing, sweating out toxins in a sauna, and improving detoxification through colon hydrotherapy. One final element to a cancer prevention game plan is to be mindful of sun exposure. Getting 20-30 minutes of sunlight on the skin each day, preferably in the morning, is important in helping the body to create Vitamin D. Vitamin D is actually a hormone that greatly reduces cancer risk when maintained at a healthy level. Supplementing with Vitamin D during the winter months is often necessary to maintain optimum levels. If making many changes feels overwhelming, then consider making one change each month. By the end of a year you'll have adopted a cancer prevention lifestyle. Prevention is the cure!
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BC-055 How To Grow Cancer Fighting Broccoli Sprouts
05/23/2019
BC-055 How To Grow Cancer Fighting Broccoli Sprouts
What if you could grow one of the most potent sources of an apoptosis (cancer cell suicide) inducing compound right in your own kitchen? You can! And this can be accomplished easily in 5-7 days. I'm referring to broccoli sprouts, the most potent source of sulforaphane we know. Stalks of broccoli are a great source of sulforaphane, but broccoli seeds grown into sprouts have been shown to have an impressive 50 to 100 times more of this important compound. As if that weren't enough, they actually taste good and can be used in smoothies, on salads, sandwiches, or a topping on pretty much any dish. These sprouts can be grown in a few easy steps. Broccoli seeds can be purchased at your local health food store or online. The first step is to take a 1/2 cup of seeds and soak them overnight. Using a strainer or jar with a mesh screen they can be rinsed and then allowed to sit somewhere in your kitchen. It's important that the seeds stay moist throughout the process and are not placed in direct sunlight until the very end of the process. Continue the rinsing step 2 or 3 times a day over the next 3-5 days. Again, the key is to keep the seeds moist. On the 3rd or 4th day they will start sprouting. Once they have had a day or two to sprout they can be placed near a window or outside to receive some direct sunlight. This will help them green up and be ready to be eaten. Enjoy!
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Intro To A Coach: Breast Cancer Survivor Melissa Eppard Talks About The Challenges Of Navigating Life After Treatment. What’s Next After the “Survivor Confetti” Has Been Swept Away?
05/20/2019
Intro To A Coach: Breast Cancer Survivor Melissa Eppard Talks About The Challenges Of Navigating Life After Treatment. What’s Next After the “Survivor Confetti” Has Been Swept Away?
Melissa Eppard is a 5 year survivor of triple negative breast cancer. Having been immersed in the holistic healing world before diagnosis, Melissa knew it was her calling to be a coach for cancer survivors. She is particularly passionate about being a support for people with a cancer diagnosis in the 20s-50s age group who deal with the complex nature of raising children, caring for aging parents and working. Often times finances are affected, relationships are affected and fear of recurrence is strong. Melissa believes that as a someone who has been through this experience she lends a great deal of support and wisdom. Some Of Her Favorite Tools For Healing: 5:58 I love to use guided visualization. There are some great scripts I use with people. I am also trained in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) which is tapping on acupuncture meridian points with a issue in mind. It is a powerful transformational tool. 10:40 Humor was a good tool to help me heal. Children are real teachers that show us how to play and how to stay in the moment. How Beat Cancer’s Certified Holistic Cancer Coaching Course Helped Her to Heal Herself and Others 14:20 As a life coach and wanting to work with those with cancer, the course has filled the need for resources and deeper information on how to manage side effects and stay healthy when you have cancer. I love Beat Cancer’s approach in treating the person and not the cancer. 14:49 There is selfish component for taking the course also. I was a survivor of 4 years when I discovered the course and it has helped me to stay on track with things like nutrition and pumping the lymphatic system. There are so many great references to books and studies that I filled a whole notebook taking notes. 15:50 The depth of information from the course would’ve taken me years to compile. 16:12 It has inspired me to stay the course and keep eating the right foods and doing the right things. We Need Each Other To Heal 22:09 Together we heal. We need each other. My greatest source of hope and light for me when I was going through my battle was hearing from other cancer survivors that had been through it and were living their lives years later. When I got my diagnosis a black curtain fell and I could not see beyond it. 22:46 Connect with your future self. Have a dialogue with that part of you. What does that future person want for you? What special tools and gifts does your future self have to give you now so you can come through this empowered. Melissa coaches people remotely or in person in Kingston, NY. Please visit her blog site also. What you nurture will grow.
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BC-053 Part 1: BeatCancer Board Member, Andrea Anderson, Speaks Candidly about the first 24 hours after Diagnosis of Breast Cancer While Pregnant
05/13/2019
BC-053 Part 1: BeatCancer Board Member, Andrea Anderson, Speaks Candidly about the first 24 hours after Diagnosis of Breast Cancer While Pregnant
Andrea Anderson was at the top of her career and running on coffee, sugar and adrenaline. As a runner and an athlete she thought she was very healthy. Because her mother was diagnosed with at age 39, she had 3 in her 30s with nothing detected and no mention of dense breasts. She started IVF cycles at the age of 39. For the next 2 1/2 years she loaded her body with hormones and eventually became pregnant. At week 30 of her pregnancy, May 2015 she went to her OB/GYN appointment and told her doctor she found a lump. Andrea bravely takes us on her journey through her biopsy and diagnosis of aggressive Stage 2B / Stage 3 breast cancer, and her emotional experience of deciding on treatment, reflecting on her lifestyle choices, dealing with information overload and coping with the fear and anger that accompanies a cancer diagnosis. Listen to this podcast for a raw account of Andrea’s experience with the industry, with , with alternative treatments, and with finding the bless in the mess. She wants people to have the benefit of her experience and she is available for personal support and encouragement. You can also contact her directly through her health and wellness site at Nutrition Commission for support and information.
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BC-052 Intro To A Coach Linda Jensen: How She Beat Stage 3 Breast Cancer and her Personal Journey to Becoming a Cancer Coach, Healing Arts Practitioner, and Author
04/10/2019
BC-052 Intro To A Coach Linda Jensen: How She Beat Stage 3 Breast Cancer and her Personal Journey to Becoming a Cancer Coach, Healing Arts Practitioner, and Author
After losing her husband to a very rare form of cancer and being diagnosed herself with stage III breast cancer and having 16 out of 18 lymph nodes removed, Linda knew it was time to learn more about integrative health, nourishing the body, spirit and mind, to heal and treat herself – simply to survive. Linda specializes in the alkaline/acidic effects on the body, truly defining healthy eating that is crucial for those who have been diagnosed with cancer. Her practice incorporates integrative lifestyle counseling and the Healing Arts Techniques of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Healing Touch, and Raindrop Therapy. Her philosophy is that optimal health is achieved by bringing balance and harmony to mind, body and spirit, starting at the cellular level. Listen to this podcast to learn her philosophies and what has kept her cancer free for 15 years. 3:14 They thought I would have a reoccurrence within five years and possibly a lifespan of nine. It’s now 15 years and I’ve watched my three children grow up. There was a lot of so I think that had a lot to do with it because there was nothing in my family tree. 3:36 I was so grateful and luck 3:36 I was so grateful and lucky to have found Dr. Susan Silberstein. She was my lifeline. Through her books, her website and her teachings I found that I wanted to take her class () and realized with this toolbox of information that I had I wanted to share it with others. 4:22 I just wanted to help people so I went to nonprofit organizations. A lot of people can’t afford to pay $250 an hour for a nutritionist. I did a lot of nonprofit work and since 2010 have counseled over 800 people. 4:55 I will always be grateful to her (Dr Susan Silberstein) and her teachings and what she’s brought to the cancer community itself. 5:36 She (Dr Susan) lead me onto the path of not only wanting to help others, but realizing that you can have your nutrition and do the right things and feed your body and food as medicine, but then life hits you and stress and just so much that goes on that are cells as energy react to that puts us in a bad spot. That’s why I started to learn about Jin Shin Jyutsu, healing energy medicines, herbs, crystals, sound healing. 8:58 I’m a mobile office essentially because then I can offer my services at very low cost. 9:44 I took the path less traveled and found that it’s been a very good path. 10:05 I wrote . I never like the word survivor because I believe we survived, yet we evolve and that’s where that came from. 12:13 with Dr. Susan‘s , you can fill that out and look at foods that you’re eating and replace them and eliminate others. 15:03 You really need a coach and some tools and someone to follow you. You need that kind of support because that’s a big lifestyle change and it’s overwhelming to just get the diagnosis. Coaches can bridge the gap between the medical community and alternative options and what’s available is tremendous. 16:55 Energy therapies are so important. and anything that can take your mind off that problem. Something as simple as writing something down and burning it. A ritual to make you feel better and say, OK that’s gone. On to the next thing. 17:35 I have found that being grateful, and also a little mantra I found when I was diagnosed, that someone has it worse. So let me be thankful for what I do have. 18:57 Her website explains her services and has recipes, education and resources.
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BC-051 Intro To A Coach: Holistic RN Kerry Hardy Teaches Us How to Raise Our Vibration to Heal
04/08/2019
BC-051 Intro To A Coach: Holistic RN Kerry Hardy Teaches Us How to Raise Our Vibration to Heal
Kerry Hardy is passionate about helping people heal through alternative and non-pharmacological modalities that treat the mind-body-spirit connection. She specializes in dealing with cancer and hospice, and uses her expertise as a Reiki Master, Pranic healer, certified crystal healer, doTerra wellness advocate, and aromatherapist to raise vibration so the body is not hospitable to cancer. Kerry is a member of Beat Cancer’s Medical Advisory Panel and is also certified as a Beat Cancer Holistic Cancer Coach. 1:48 Working as a hospice nurse and working with cancer patients in the Yale community, we had cancer patients that would graduate and not transition to hospice and some of that did not. So I learned an awful lot through my patience of what works and what didn’t. 2:16 I also found Reiki energy work on my personal journey and that really help me tune in to who I was and what I needed for my own healing. 2:29 That big package of holistic mentality of the mind, the body and the spirit started to come together for me as I was working with patients and seeing those who could connect and those who didn’t. There really was a difference there in the success rates of those who healed. 3:37 there’s chemo and there’s radiation and surgery and there’s a place for all of them at the right times if that something that’s really going to work for you. But if it doesn’t resonate with you it’s something to really sit and turn into and search for other options. 4:09 When we start talking about the mind and the mental thought patterns and your energy field it all sounds crazy, but it’s not because we are energy. Everything is energy and everything is a different frequency. 4:27 what you really need to do is raise your vibration to a healing frequency so disease can dissipate. 5:48 I love essential oil‘s and they all have different frequencies. Frankincense is 147 this helps raise your vibration. 6:19 frankincense has been shown in labs to destroy a mutated DNA cell. 6:35 Myrrh has been shown to inhibit damage cells by getting into the RNA and not letting it replicate again. 7:08 to boost your immune system there’s oil’s such as cinnamon and clove. 7:31 crystals are another beautiful way to raise your vibration. They actually have energy and you can learn to work with them and utilize the energy. 8:44 Reiki is a Japanese method of bringing in source energy, whatever you believe source that is, God or spirit or the universe. 11:30 The neatest thing is that it works distantly because we are all connected. It’s really not this crazy idea that people like to label it. 14:21 there is no cookie-cutter recipe for healing and getting to the root cause and the root problem of why you got cancer in the first place is huge. 17:58 Love is healing in itself and we know that but we don’t talk about it. Kerry Hardy Boulder, CO 475-522-0933 [email protected] www.holisticheavenwellness.com Certified Holistic RN Certified Holistic Cancer Coach Medical Intuitive Reiki Master Crystals Aromatherapy A 15 minute phone consultation is always complementary to discuss your journey
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BC-050 Five Time Cancer Survivor, Dr. Marilyn Joyce, Takes Us On Her Journey from Having 2 Weeks to Live to Being Known as, The Vitality Doctor
04/04/2019
BC-050 Five Time Cancer Survivor, Dr. Marilyn Joyce, Takes Us On Her Journey from Having 2 Weeks to Live to Being Known as, The Vitality Doctor
Five Time Cancer Survivor, Dr. Marilyn Joyce, Takes Us On Her Journey from Having 2 Weeks to Live to Being Known as, The Vitality Doctor Dr Marilyn Joyce has the unique combination of being a Registered Dietician, as well as having a PhD in psychology. She is an internationally renowned author, educator, speaker and trainer, and was the Director of Nutrition for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. She has appeared on many TV shows, including Leeza, Jenny Jones, Montel Williams and Maury Povich. She is the author of several unique, inspiring and comprehensive books, including her best selling books, Five Minutes to Health, I Can’t Believe it’s Tofu, The Original Hollywood Celebrity Diet, Instant E.N.E.R.G.Y.: The 5 Keys To Unlimited Energy and Vitality and The Stress To Success Formula: Transform Your Life, Career and Business Now!She is known as the Master of 5-minute healthy strategies and tips that anyone can do anywhere, anytime. Marilyn’s slogan is, 5 Minutes…5 Times A Day…Instant Energy & Maximum Stress Release Guaranteed! At the height of her career, and only 35 years old, she was diagnosed with , and then stage 4 uterine cancer. She went in and out of cancer for 5 years, until she found herself in a wheelchair at 88 lbs with a 2 week prognosis. Listen to learn about Marilyn’s turning point, her miracle weekend, and how 1 year later she ran a mile! 5:39 In 1989, at 88 pounds and in a wheelchair unable to eat or drink anything, the only thing I could do was suck on ice chips. 6:15 I survived childhood abuse and I was a runaway at 14 so there was a lot of this underneath that I survived and I think it gave me the strength that I wasn’t going to quit. 7:02 The turning point happened at a home my daughter took me to after being given two weeks to live. At a Vitamix demo, I was given cantaloupe, including the seeds and I didn’t throw up. 9:03 I was dragged off to another program with Dr. Bernie Siegel with 900 people in the audience. At a break Dr. Siegel came over and asked me what was going on. I told him, and he asked me if I’d ever done a gratitude journal. 11:53 Dr. Siegel said, what you focus on is what expands, and literally I focused on what I was grateful for. So I got a lot more to be grateful for, including 30 years more on planet earth. 12:48 It became apparent that I had survived beyond my two week prognosis. And if I could do that maybe I could do it longer. 14:40 One year later I ran a mile. It took me 30 minutes. There was hope. They told me stage four uterine cancer would come back so I figured I’d take a trip. I drove to New Mexico and my world became an open world. 17:53 My first book, 5 Minutes to Health, was dedicated to Dr. Bernie Siegel. 19:31 Dr. Siegel had said to me, do you see as your friend? 20:01 He said, "What if you thought of cancer as a teacher? What do you think will be trying to teach you?" 22:04 Let go and let God 22:10 Have fun, laugh, be with friends, be social. Work is not everything. 22:39 If you don’t like what you’re doing quit. Find something you’re passionate about. We didn’t come to this earth to be unhappy and struggle. 24:27 I have an expression that I say, take five to say five and what that means is take five minutes to say five years because I lost five years to cancer. 25:37 Make time and just put on the music, set the timer and start breathing in a rhythmic pattern. Breath in for 4 seconds, hold for 4, and out for 4. 26:46 Whatever comes up release it, because that’s how we learn to release stress by letting things come up, dealing with it, and releasing it. 27:14 Take it to the next step. Earthing or grounding is just taking off your shoes and socks and walking in the earth, sand, or grass. And do the same breathing pattern for five minutes or longer. Research shows sticky blood platelets all stuck together, in five minutes of doing this and the breathing they all separate and go their merry way and blood flow is way better and nutrition gets into your cells more easily. 30:18 People spend 90% of their time indoors right now and that’s not the way people lived in the old days. We need to get out and reconnect to nature, hug a tree, listen to the birds and walk every day and stop and smell the roses. 31:18 We get stuck behind a desk and my philosophy is, every hour get up and get off your seat and on your feet and do something different. Changing your state is critical and regenerates your spirit and your physical body at the same time. 39:29 5 keys to unlimited energy and vitality. The E is for, Exhale fully first so you can inhale fully. The N is for nutrition. The second E is for exercise for cellular rejuvenation. The R is for rest, relax, and rejuvenate. The G is for gratitude. And the Y Is for making it yours and what works for you because there are hundreds of strategies.
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BC-049 Intro To A Coach: Joseph Brown, Founder of the Carla Rose Foundation
04/03/2019
BC-049 Intro To A Coach: Joseph Brown, Founder of the Carla Rose Foundation
Joseph Brown founded the Carla Rose Foundation in honor of his late wife, Andrea Carla Frasier-Brown and his late mother, Ruby Rose Brown. This non-profit foundation raises money for people seeking alternative treatment and provides payment assistance to alternative care clinics. Joseph started this foundation because he felt his wife’s traditional treatment was debilitating and that there must be a better way to heal. He also wanted to reduce the stress of the financial burden on people trying to heal from cancer. Joseph is also opening his first wellness center in Spartanburg South Carolina on September 30, 2019. It will be open to prevention seekers as well as anyone with a diagnosis of or any other health issue. They will be providing many services including nutrition counseling, juicing, cooking demonstrations, lifestyle modification seminars, stress relief technique education, yoga, massage, spa and relaxation services, meditation, and art classes through their partnership with the Chapman Cultural Center. They are having a fundraising gala August 17, 2019 at the Chapman Cultural Center to raise funds for the opening of the wellness center. Joseph is using the education he received through Beat Cancer’s Certified Holistic Cancer Coaching course to headline the wellness center. We are so happy to help Joseph provide such needed services. If you have a cancer diagnosis and need assistance funding alternative treatment please check their website at . You can also find information on attending their new wellness center and their fundraising gala, as well as donation information, including purchasing their beautiful bracelets that honor different cancers. Joseph Brown Founder of The Carla Rose Foundation
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