How a Life Coach Can Be The Pillar Needed To Be a Cancer Survivor
Today I have a special blog post brought forward to you by Emily Walsh.
I have never met Emily but she contacted me after visiting my website and asked if she could contribute to my blog.
Emily is a person who is facing her health challenges with courage and willful perseverance and through her blog she is trying to rally the hope of others. Please visit her blog and comment.
Thankyou Emily for sharing your thoughts with us!
Here’s her contribution:
Being diagnosed with cancer can take a devastating toll on the person and their family. It takes so much out of everyone just to remain optimistic and hope that everything works out. Whether the cancer is a rare aggressive disease like mesothelioma or a breast cancer diagnosis, it doesn’t matter. All forms of cancer have the same impact on the patient and the family, and it is very important to find as much peace of mind in such a mental state. One way to help achieve that is with the assistance of a life coach.
A life coach is pretty self-explanatory. They are people that help those that are troubled to gain control of whatever situation they are in. For a patient diagnosed with cancer, this means the world to them. The biggest hurdle that a cancer patient has to deal with is living every day and wondering how they will feel when they wake up in the morning. Cancer patients are always undergoing chemotherapy, and while family can and should be very supportive, often times, that isn’t enough. It’s tough on the family as well, to have to endure seeing one of their own suffering. A life coach can ease the burden on all people involved.
As said before, the mental and physical burden is what the cancer patient must face every day. The side-effects of chemotherapy can vary from patient to patient, but almost all the effects involve the patient feeling terrible. A life coach can help the patient look forward to the next day, despite the fact that there may be nothing to look forward to for the short term. The cancer patient must always be looking towards the long term future, that being when the patient is completely cancer free. The main goal of a life coach is to make sure that someone is there to talk with and watch the cancer patient at all times. It means the world to cancer patients just to have someone with them.
A life coach helps to ease the mental, physical, and emotional burden of a cancer patient by being with and communicating with them, but that is not all. Life coaches have a responsibility to communicate with the cancer patient’s family. They must give peace of mind to the family that the patient is fighting with every bit of energy left and that the patient is responsive to any and all questions asked. A life coach can give tips to the family on how to communicate with their cancer patient in order to make them feel better, as well as some activities that they respond well to.
A life coach may not be the cure for cancer, but if they can, at least, make the mesothelioma prognosis a bit easier to handle for the patient, then that is a job well done.
Emily Walsh
Em-Musings.blogspot.com
Outreach Director at Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance
Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Blog
One Response “How a Life Coach Can Be The Pillar Needed To Be a Cancer Survivor”
One thing I would like to mention is that life coaching may benefit anyone who is struggling with an illness or has a family member with a serious illness–not just cancer patients.. These are the times where it seems our lives are in disarray, and we all need direction and a “time out” to reevaluate our situation and reflect on our goals and values. I hope you find this article valuable, and please provide feedback as I would love to hear your thoughts!