Saving...

Would you share some of the highlights of your wellness plan?

Cancel

Topics (Tags):

Health Wellness Plan Prevention Survivorship Health Plan Breast Cancer Prevention

Topics:

Health X Wellness Plan X Prevention X Survivorship X Health Plan X Breast Cancer Prevention X

Done

Diseases:

Done

Answer Summary

Cancel

Answers (2)

member682 (Survivor (2 - 5 years)) - 09 / 09 / 2011

In my experience, wellness planning must be based on a person's individual needs and meet the survivor wherever she is in her journey to recovery. It must also be flexible, and change as the survivor changes. Thus, while there are many dimensions to a comprehensive wellness plan, including physical, medical, emotional, social, and spiritual ones, a survivor's journey to wellness may not initially include all of these dimensions, and may start with any that seem most important.

For me, I started with the emotional and spiritual dimensions. I realized that my mind and body were very much out of balance, and that I needed to examine the patterns I had established throughout my life that were enabling bad habits in my body to lead to physical manifestations of deep emotional and spiritual blockages. I wrote about this recently in my blog: thrive-after-cancer.com. The brain is a pattern-making machine, and I initially embarked on "rewiring" the channels in my brain. This is work that continues everyday for me.

For me, I started with the emotional and spiritual dimensions.  I realized that my mind and body were very much out of balance, and that I needed to examine the patterns I had established throughout my life that were enabling bad habits in my body to lead to physical manifestations of deep emotional and spiritual blockages. I wrote about this recently in my blog: thrive-after-cancer.com.  The brain is a pattern-making machine, and I initially embarked on "rewiring" the channels in my brain. This is work that continues everyday for me.

Cancel

member4136 (Survivor (2 - 5 years)) - 09 / 24 / 2011

My wellness plan was also my cancer protocol. After being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer I decided to devote myself, my body, my mind to heal itself. This meant meditation, tai-chi, healing by drumming, Qichong, exercising, and eating mostly plant food. I felt that I accomplished this very well and today am doing quite well in my cancer program. I contacted a naturopathic oncologist to help with all of this and to provide support with supplementation to boost my immune system and antioxidants. I also availed myself with naturopathic treatments such as vitamin c infusions. I also believe that cancer is a mental disease as well as physical one so incorporated programs to promote mental healing as well. Changing one lifestyle's is not an easy program but I feel, today, that it helped save my life. I did not avail myself to the traditional chemotherapy but concentrated of doing things that would help my immune system work more efficiently.

Cancel

Note: Usernames have been made anonymous and profile images are not shown to protect the privacy of our members.

Note: All content on this site is informational and not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with questions regarding your health.

Flag Content

Please expain why you are flagging this content. Thank you.

Cancel

Thank you for flagging this content. We will look into it right away.

Give a 'Thank you' to

Cancel

Add Answer

Question:

Optional: What context or background information is relevant to this request?

Notes:
The more clear and thorough your request, the more likely you will receive support.
Many of our members are learning from this information or english might not be their first language. Please use standard english and spell out all words. For example, use 'you' instead of 'u'.

Submit

Thank you for sharing your question.

We will notify other members of your question. Responses will be sent to your email account as well as viewable at the following link:

We are finding other members now to join the chat.

Click here to start the chat.

Cancer questions and answers.

Personalized, helpful, and accurate health answers.

Join Via Facebook

Join Via Twitter

Question Statistics

Latest Activity: 09 / 24 / 2011
Views: 233
Followed By: 3 members