It's Just Cancer with Sophie Woodcock

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Today I have the lovely Sophie Woodcock on to discuss her
experience with cancer.  Sophie is a great personal friend
of mine, animal advocate, and cancer warrior, as well as one of
my clients.  Today we discuss the emotional and mental
impact of a diagnosis and what friends and family can do to
help.

In our experience, we have found that about half of your friends
will disappear when they hear your diagnosis.  The other
half will be terrified and run for the hills, but others will
step up in unexpected ways.  Since we are both animal rescue
activists, we have found that animals are great listeners,
supporters, and friends when it comes to being stuck at home with
illness.

Sophie's advice for accelerating physical and emotional wealth is
mindfulness based healing.  When faced with a scary
diagnosis, it's important to acknowledge how you feel about it
and make peace with how you feel.  It's okay to feel the
sadness, but it's also okay to feel happiness.  The bad days
make the good days that much better.

I asked Sophie, "What would be the top three things that people
could do to help you once you've got a diagnosis?"
Be there. You don't have to talk about cancer, just be there
and watch a movie, or go for a drive, invite them on walks. 
It makes it worse to not be invited.Don't be scared of the word
Cancer.  It's just a word. I'm having an ankle operation that
is going to be far more debilitating for me than my cancer has
been, but it doesn't terrify people.Include people in your life who
are dealing with illness, disability, heart issues, cancer, or
mental health concerns.  Let them be the judge of what they
are and aren't capable of.

I titled this, "it's only cancer." And I know a few of you
probably thought, Oh, she must be mad because you know, cancer is
such a scary thing. But if we've learned anything from this
episode, it's that it is just a label as with any other medical
label, it's a diagnosis. It's a name. It's not your life. And
Sophie and I've talked about this at length, that the person who
has the cancer is still the person, they are not the cancer.
Treat them as the person that you knew before they got the
diagnosis.

Having this diagnosis has given Sophie the permission to enjoy
every day and really go after the items on her bucket list, like
the trip to Kenya that she took last year, rather than waiting
until retirement.



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