Coping with cancer

Cancer. Once you hear that word your life is never the same. Whether you’ve navigated the diagnosis yourself, or you’re a survivor or caregiver of someone who has been diagnosed, coping with the changes from an experience as big as cancer is no small task. But regardless of where you are in your cancer experience, there’s hope for a life full of meaning, hope, love, and joy.

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After a cancer diagnosis, you might not notice what’s changing within you; not just physically, but emotionally. You get the diagnosis and its test after test, and treatment planning, and rushing to the next step. It may take some time before you stop and notice that new perspective that’s crept in. And as much as you’d love to say how you’ve learned to stop and smell the roses and let things roll off your back, you find yourself missing that zen that other cancer battlers seem to have. You find yourself irritable, angry, confused, and afraid.

Returning to your pre-cancer life is difficult. It seems as though the people around you don’t share the knowledge you do. It’s hard to relate to the seemingly small things others worry about, while you’re wondering if this cancer will kill you or if it’ll come back. It’s difficult to connect with others again. Everything feels so foreign and strange and you feel like you don’t belong.

How do you fit these pieces into the new you? How do you become more than a cancer patient or cancer survivor? How do you incorporate that new perspective into your life so that you can feel like yourself again?

You don’t have to continue feeling like a stranger in your own body. Therapy at Tailwinds Counseling can help you sort out the complicated feelings surrounding your experience so that you can better cope with the anxiety, cultivate hope, and live a full, rich life that integrates all the dimensions of yourself.