Fighting Cancer: People always think cancer means death!

It happened again! Someone wanted to give me to help her mom with an adjustment problem, and said "I thought of you and i know you do just hospice and death, but i wonder if you would be able to help out my mom..." The Cancer Coach. Must be death and dying because it's cancer related. Balderdash!

I don't help people die, I help people with cancer live! Live to the very best they can, whether it's a week or a hundred more years. But people always think it's about dying. I guess, if you look at it existentially, it is about dying, because everything after birth is heading us toward our dying. But it's not necessarily about dying of cancer.

One of the fundamental problems about coping with a diagnosis of cancer, is the absolute, elemental terror it strikes in people's hearts. It's as if you're tied to a railroad track and hear the not-so-distant whistle of the train. That's how most people respond and why there's so often a rush to treatment.

I'm working on how to help people move through that terror swiftly into a calmer, more rational state of mind. More on that later...it's a work in progress for sure!

All the best,
Judith Frost, MSW
The Cancer Coach
www.cancer-coach.com