My Breast Cancer Coach - Who I Work With

	Helping women find life at the end of the tunnel.

About Coaching

About Breast Cancer Support Coaching

You can get your life back while dealing with breast cancer. As you deal with breast cancer, you face numerous difficult challenges. However, surviving breast cancer can also be a triumphant life experience that has the potential for improving the quality of your life. Right now, though, it may be difficult for you to see any positive effects of your experience.

The coaching process will help you move beyond your confusion and feelings of fear and overwhelm. You will regain your self-confidence, stability, and a sense of being back in control of your life.

The key concept of individual coaching is the personal attention paid to you by the coach. I will provide for you a non-judgmental, confidential, safe environment where you will feel free to explore any area of your experience with breast cancer. My focus will be completely on you and what your needs are at any given moment. As your coach, I will be your personal support, advocate, partner, mentor, cheering squad, sounding board and strategist.

Benefits of Coaching

Some of the benefits you can expect to experience from the process of coaching:

Action and results – Without action, results cannot occur. What you need right now is immediate relief from your most troubling worries and needs. At the beginning of each session, we will determine what your most pressing needs are and work out a plan to provide relief.
Preparation for treatment – researching and understanding your particular type of breast cancer and your treatment options; locating and organizing your personal health, medical, and insurance records; finding and assembling your health care team; making lists of questions to ask your doctors; locating additional resources.
Getting through the experience – preparing for treatment; knowing what to expect before and after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation; managing the activities of daily living that will have to continue throughout treatment; asking for and accepting help from others; learning new skills that will help you cope.
Improved communication with loved ones, family, friends, and co-workers – who, when and how much to tell those affected by your diagnosis and treatment; how to talk to your children; how to tactfully turn down well-intentioned but misguided attention; talking with your spouse or significant other about matters of intimacy, personal identity, and changes in your body.
Identifying and expressing the vast array of emotions that are integral to the experience of dealing with breast cancer. Sometimes we have to "stuff" our emotions just so we can get through the day, or the hour. As your coach, I will provide a safe environment for you to examine and fully express your feelings.
Recognizing and accepting changes in your health and outlook on life – adjusting to physical changes in your body that occur as a result of surgery and other treatments; exploring changes in how you think, feel, and behave; clarifying your life priorities, values, and goals; designing environments to enhance your physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.

Some lifelong benefits of coaching are:

Reestablishing feelings of self-worth, confidence, and strength.
Reconnection to your core self.
Re-defining femininity, sexuality, and beauty.
Coming to terms with your own mortality.
Becoming more assertive.
Regaining your sense of power and control, in all areas of your life.
Enjoying a sense of mastery and accomplishment in your life.

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What Coaching is Not

Coaching is not therapy, counseling, or medical advice. Therapy and counseling typically focus on past events with an emphasis on exploring and processing feelings. Medical advice requires the skills of a trained medical professional to assess one's health and wellness options from the standpoint of disease processes. Coaching is oriented more towards action and focuses more on the present and future.

Breast cancer coaching is not about providing medical advice. I am not a medical professional and at no time will I offer treatment suggestions or advice. We can certainly discuss treatment options and make lists of questions to ask your doctors. However, decisions about your treatment will be made between you and your health care professionals.

Coaching is not a substitute for professional medical care.