Comments on: Anxiety and Breast Cancer

By: Breast Cancer Now What » How Vocational Counseling Helped Me

Breast Cancer Now What » How Vocational Counseling Helped Me — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:12:35 +0000

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Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:29:39 +0000

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By: Cielo English

Cielo English — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:15:15 +0000

I have a wellness group called
Live Well Yoga. Each year I pick a cause that I would like to support in the way of donations
And Karma Yoga classes. This year, as I was affected on such a personal level, I chose to
Put my energy toward raising money to support those with Breast Cancer.

Throughout the year I made all of my classes complimentary to anyone in recovery from illness.
I am currently running my outdoor classes by donation to support this cause.

I have had support in the local media, and I am sponsored by Lululemon as I am one of their Ambassadors.
If you would feel comfortable passing the information along, or posting it for your patrons, we would
Be so grateful for the help.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:32:05 +0000

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By: Ariane

Ariane — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:23:27 +0000

Wow Vanessa, reading this was extremely powerful to me – I know it’s a totally different health challenge, but I can relate so much to the anxiety about becoming sick again. I’ve had some incredibly bad IBS/Fibromyalgia flareups off and on over the years, and one of the worst/longest ones ever was this February/March. I had never been so scared, as I was really incapacitated in a more severe way than I’d experienced before and lost a ton of weight. My body is still recovering now. And it’s hard not to live in fear of when the next one will hit, and the implications of that.

I’ve had anxiety issues for years largely caused by dealing with chronic illness my whole life (and of course anxiety just makes it worse), but also have done some CBT along with a ton of counseling that’s helped me get away from constantly worrying about getting sicker, or just coping with day-to-day life when I don’t feel well. I was only just introduced to mindfulness, incidentally by one of the guys who rented the house with our group at the conference in SF.

Anyway, you are obviously an incredibly strong person to have gone through all this and come out the other side so gracefully. Thanks for sharing this with the world, and all the best. – Ariane