Confidently Cancer Free!

Congratulations on completing treatment for cancer!

Although it’s definitely a time to celebrate, I know it can also be a time of uncertainty and fear.

Now that you’ve finished treatment and have been declared “cancer-free”, are you finding that you’re:

• Feeling anxious and unsure about what to do next to take control of your health?
• Fearful that your cancer may come back?
• Struggling to get back to the life you knew before cancer?
• On pins and needles when it’s time for your next scan or appointment with your oncologist?
• Putting your happiness on hold because you’re worried about the future?

The emotional, psychological and physical burden that the cancer journey brings can really take a toll. The constant fear and worry not only puts stress on your immune system, which your body needs in tip-top shape to remain healthy, but also keeps you from living your best, most joyful life.

Rest assured, you’re not alone.

It is completely normal to feel a sense of unease, a sense of loss – not only the loss of control that you felt you once had over your body and health, but also the loss of the life that may have been.

Your life is going in one direction and then in a matter of minutes it completely gets turned upside down. You do what ever it takes to get through treatment but when it’s over you’re overwhelmed with what you’ve just been through.

Suddenly the unwavering support you had from family and friends, not to mention your doctors an nurses, begins to dwindle as you try to find your “new normal.”

This can certainly be a time of anxiety about the future.

But here is what’s possible when you take back your power when it comes to your health: