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Childhood Phobia with Maiya

October 8, 2014 by ssradmin

Ten-year-old Maiya takes us into the world of childhood phobias, describing what it was like to live with overwhelming anxiety about sickness, and how she found help. Now she is creating a website of fear-reducing games to help other kids who suffer with anxiety.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: Anxiety & Fear, childhood, childhood trauma, children, fear, germaphobia, health, illness, Parenting, phobia

Life in the Early Stages with Bill Verrill

November 11, 2013 by ssradmin

Bill Verrill, a former banker, now suffers from early Alzheimer’s disease. Bill describes his deep trust in his wife Shirley’s ability to take care of him—and his deepest fears about the toll his illness will take on her life. He remembers letting go of his driver’s license and learning to be more dependent while striving …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle, Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimers, ambiguous loss, death and dying, Dementia, dependency, illness, intimacy, marriage

Illness Stories with Art Frank

October 5, 2011 by ssradmin

Author Art Frank describes his own experience with an early heart attack and later cancer. He describes the way the medical world can be oblivious to the patient’s needs and subjective experience, and the importance of finding your own voice after your body has been colonized by treatment. He offered examples of the ways that …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: body memory, cancer, doctors, heart attack, illness, medical encounter, medical providers, Medical Trauma, medicine, patient experience, Sickness, treatment

Parenting and Cancer with Susan Conley

September 7, 2011 by ssradmin

Susan Conley is author of The Foremost Good Fortune and co-founder of The Telling Room in Portland, Maine. In this interview she talks about coping with breast cancer in China while parenting two young boys, and how writing helped her survive. Susan describes her decision to write as honestly as possible, exposing less-than-ideal parenting or …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: art, body, breast cancer, cancer, china, coping techniques, difficult conversations, health, identity, illness, isolation, journaling, living abroad, Parenting, physical health, relationships, Sickness, storytelling, teenagers, Teens, Therapy, treatment, writing, youth

Hospice Chaplaincy with Ellie Mercer

March 31, 2010 by ssradmin

An interview with hospice chaplain Ellie Mercer about caring for patients at the end of life. She describes her own childhood in a Christian Science family where illness and death were not talked about, or even treated medically, and the relief of working in hospice, where death can be acknowledged and fears can be addressed.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: communication, death and dying, difficult conversations, end of life, fear, Hospice, illness, Sickness, spirituality

Cancer and the Tri for a Cure with Julie Marchese

March 10, 2010 by ssradmin

Julie Marchese is the founder of the Tri-for-a Cure, the all women’s triathlon to raise money for women’s cancer. She describes her experiences taking care of her mother when she had cancer, and how that shaped her ability to take charge of her own treatment when she was diagnosed years later.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle Tagged With: cancer, cancer treatment, Caregivers, coping techniques, daughters, diagnosis, health, illness, mothers, physical health, Recovery, Sickness, tri for a cure

Surviving Cancer with Humor with Cathy Kidman

March 3, 2010 by ssradmin

An interview with Cathy Kidman about her diagnosis and treatment for ovarian cancer. Cathy tells the story of how she became a stand up comedian while in treatment, and the ways she has used humor to cope with difficult situations.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: cancer, cancer treatment, coping techniques, Humor, illness, ovarian cancer, physical health, Recovery, Sickness, survivors

Surviving Breast Cancer with Sheila Cassidy

February 17, 2010 by ssradmin

Sheila Cassidy ran a support group for women with breast cancer, and was then diagnosed with breast cancer herself. She talks about the fear of dying and the ways that emotional support makes a difference.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, community, death and dying, diagnosis, illness, physical health, Sickness, support group, Therapy, wellness

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