Improving the Quality of Life of Children with Cancer by Deborah D Miller, PhD

The following is a guest post by Deborah Miller. Be sure to look for Deborah’s upcoming EFT tapping book “The Dragon with Flames of Love (Helping Children with Serious Illnesses Improve the Quality of their Lives)”

This book touches on topics specific to children with serious illnesses and is filled with information to help family members support their children. The stories are beautifully illustrated and based on real children who this technique has helped.

Improving the Quality of Life of Children with Cancer by Deborah D Miller

How does one deal with the emotions that occur when one’s child has a serious illness like cancer?  One incredibly powerful yet gentle way to do so is with Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT o Tapping). It is a powerful, simple, noble technique that children and their families can use to manage their emotions, fears, traumas and even pains. Soft stimulation of specific points on the face and body with the fingertips, while focusing on a specific problem such as fear, and stating phrases about this fear removes the energetic and emotional imbalance in the body that creates the fear.

This technique compliments that of the hospital treatments. It doesn't interfere or replace but incorporates, augments and improves the existing treatments by providing powerful and necessary tools that relieve emotional trauma such as fear, loneliness, and unwillingness to cooperate with the doctor and/or nurses.

How can this be? Well, the body is first electrical than chemical. Thus, “tapping” positively stimulates the electrical system, which in turn stimulates the body’s natural chemical system. Instead of producing “stress hormones and chemicals” that weaken the immune system, the body produces “relaxation and healing hormones and chemicals” that strengthen the immune system and improve health.

Why is it important to manage these emotions?

Improving mood also improves the immune system. If you have a sad and depressed child their immune system is depressed or weakened. If you have a happy and cheerful child their immune system improves.

By tapping, these children release the fears, anxieties and much of the pain associated with cancer. It empowers the children to choose how they feel. It prepares them for the treatments they receive and allows them to choose to be relaxed so that these procedures are easier and more comfortable.  It is completely complementary to the treatments received.

Benefits of Tapping with Children:

·         Reduces stress and fear

·         Reduces pain and nausea

·         Eases the insertion of an IV

·         Improves mood

·         Empowers the child

·         Helps the child visualize their healing process

·         Gives them a tool to manage their emotions

·         It is fun to do and feels good

Benefits of Tapping for the family members:

·         Reduces their stress, anxiety and worry

·         Gives parents a useful tool to manage and improve their feelings while dealing with a serious illness in their child

·         Empowers parents to help themselves and their child feel calm

The quality of life for these children has improved drastically, and consequently that of their parents, the hospital staff, the doctor and others working with them. The healing process can be filled with peace, joy, love and laughter.  Tapping is one technique that helps make that possible.

About Deborah: Deborah D. Miller, EFT Expert, Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Dressing Your Truth Expert, Deeksha Giver, Reiki Master and Personal Motivation guide, is passionate about helping people release the emotional charge and traumas of their lives, especially the ones from their childhood. She does so using her scientific mind and intuition, which is a beautiful combination.

Deborah began volunteering in the children’s cancer area in September of 2007, applying EFT and other energy techniques to the children, parents and the nursing and medical staff to help them reduce stress, fear and anxiety and improve their mental and emotional health. Helping these children have tools to manage their emotions has led to a heart-felt passion to help more and more children all over the world. Her work in the hospital is complementary to the treatments given and is aimed at improving the quality of life of those involved.

To learn more about and/or support Deborah and her work with the children with cancer go to www.oaxacaproject.com or contact Deborah for private consultations and group sessions at ddmiller7@findthelightwithin.com or www.findthelightwithin.com

Elyn

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Elyn Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor, professional cancer coach, radio talk show host, speaker, and the Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Elyn empowers women to choose the path for treatment that best fits their own individual needs.  She is passionate about helping others move forward into a life of health and wellbeing. To learn more about Elyn’s coaching services, please visit:  http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com.  To tune into the Survive and Live Well radio show, please visit www.W4CS.com, Tuesdays at 1pm (EST).

Preventing Breast Cancer; It’s Time.

Did you know that there is a vaccine capable of preventing 95% of all breast cancer? A preventive vaccine developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Professor Vincent Tuohy is ready for safety testing in women and may also be effective against the viral form of breast cancer, one that is thought to be involved with 40-75% of breast cancer. The vaccine has been found to be 100% effective in mice; remember anything that works in humans once worked in mice. Want to learn more?

http://www.lotstolivefor.blogspot.com/2012/08/breast-cancer-vaccine.html

http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com/pink-vaccine/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QffAJmyALb0

This vaccine needs funding now, to get it through trials and into the hands of our doctors. Sadly, there is more interest in treating the disease than preventing it. Let’s change the conversation.  For a disease that is very difficult to cure, and for which treatment offers little certainty and often more disease, prevention is key.  Yes, we need to find a cure for the millions who are battling this disease; but let’s also invest in our future.  Join in, support the Pink Vaccine, help save millions of lives and even more pain and suffering…for our mothers, daughters, sons, husbands and lovers.  Fund the first vaccine to prevent breast cancer.

Elyn

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Facebook @Elyn Jacobs and @Elyn Jacobs Consulting

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Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor, professional cancer coach, radio talk show host, speaker, and the Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Elyn empowers women to choose the path for treatment that best fits their own individual needs.  She is passionate about helping others move forward into a life of health and wellbeing. Elyn lives in New York with her husband and two young boys. To learn more about Elyn’s coaching services, please visit:  http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com.  To tune into the Survive and Live Well radio show, please visit www.W4CS.com, Tuesdays at 1pm (EST).

Lung Cancer News on W4CS.com

After losing her Mother to lung cancer in 2011, Joni Aldrich supports the cause to change the shocking lack of support for lung cancer causes. Joni is proud to say that her own poster is now part of the campaign. Why is that important? For every $15 spent on breast cancer, only $1 is spent on Lung Cancer in the U.S. The overall survival rate for Lung Cancer is still 15.5%. This hasn't changed in over 40 years ago. Anyone can get lung cancer. Joni interviewed Gabby Wilson on her show. She's a lung cancer survivor at 11-years-old. If you missed the interview with Gabby Wilson, it will be rebroadcast on www.W4CS.com, so stay tuned for details.

On Monday, July 30^th, on CANCER S.O.S., Joni’s interview was about 24-year-old Kelcey Harrison, who is running 3,500 miles across America to raise funds for lung cancer. She's running from New York City to San Francisco in memory of 22-year-old student and athlete at U.C. Berkeley, Jill Costello, who lost her battle with Lung Cancer in 2010 one year after diagnosis. To learn more go to: http://jillslegacy.org/.  Please visit: The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (www.lungcancerfoundation.org). If you missed the show, it will be rebroadcast on Saturday, August 4th on www.W4WN.com and www.W4CS.com.

Lung cancer claims more lives each year than breast, colon, liver, kidney, and melanoma cancers combined, due in part to a lack of early detection. Often symptoms don't appear until later stages of the disease when 5-year survival can be as low as 4%.   Sadly, about 85% of lung cancers are diagnosed in late stage.  While much progress has been made in the treatment of lung cancer, the best outcome may be achieved when tumors are discovered while still small. For more information, please visit: http://www.lungcancerfoundation.org/early-detection/, and view my interview with Greg Stanley, of Oncimmune, on Survive and Live Well, to learn more about early testing for lung cancer: http://hipcast.com/podcast/HBFWRWHQ.

WEGO Health is producing a series of videos for the lung cancer community that will focus on a patient journey through lung cancer.  If you are a lung cancer patient or caregiver who is looking to help raise awareness, share information and experiences, please contact:

Caitlin Cumming

Community Coordinator

WEGO Health

www.wegohealth.com

caitlinc@wegohealth.com

Join us daily on www.W4CS.com and www.W4WN.com  for the information you need now if you or a loved one has cancer.

Elyn Jacobs

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Elyn Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor, professional cancer coach, radio talk show host, speaker, and the Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Elyn empowers women to choose the path for treatment that best fits their own individual needs.  She is passionate about helping others move forward into a life of health and wellbeing. Elyn lives in New York with her husband and two young boys. To tune into the Survive and Live Well radio show, please visit www.W4CS.com, Tuesdays at 1pm (EST).

An Herb Garden to Fight Cancer

Did you know that herbs contain powerful anti-cancer protection? Using herbs for cancer prevention and treatment is by no means a novel, modern or alternative practice. Herbs have been used in the treatment of cancer for many, many years and the constituent chemicals of plants have been the starting point for research and the creation of many modern medicines. However, today’s post will be on reaping the benefits from common garden herbs.  Herbs are nature’s medicine cabinet. So whether you grow your own or stop at the local farmers market, eat them daily for a powerful anti-cancer boost.

So what’s the deal? Below are some common and delicious herbs, try to eat them every day. Please keep in mind that herbs provide the greatest benefit for prevention and healing when they are combined within an approach that considers the whole mind body system.

Rosemary. The two key ingredients in rosemary, caffeic acid and rosemarinic acid, are potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents, which help protect the body's cells from damage by free radicals.  Rosemary has been found to detoxify substances that can initiate the breast-cancer process and it stimulates liver enzymes which inactivate estrogen hormones. Rosemary can inhibit the formation of HCAS, the carcinogenic compounds that form when you cook protein.

Dill contains antioxidant properties, and it also deactivates free radicals and neutralizes carcinogens that might find their way into our bodies.

Cilantro helps to remove heavy metals like Mercury from the body.

 Mint has anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory properties, helps prevent damage from radiation and it cuts off the blood supply to tumors, and may protect your liver too.

Parsley has potent anti-inflammatory and anticancer abilities. The phytochemicals in parsley can slow the speed of cell division, leaving time for the cell to correct DNA mistakes or to activate apoptosis, and recent research shows that one particular compound found in parsley and celery, apigenin, can stop certain breast cancer tumor cells from multiplying and growing.

 Basil has powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. It contains flavonoids that help shield cell structures from radiation and oxidative damage, and may protect liver cells. Both fresh basil and basil oil have strong antibacterial capabilities, so by adding the herb or oil to your salad, you can help ensure your vegetables are safe to eat.

Oregano possesses anti-bacterial as well as anti-inflammatory properties and encourages cell death making it a powerful anti-cancer herb; but what is really exciting is that may be particularly effective against prostate cancer and may even become part of the treatment for this cancer.  

Thyme possesses terpenoids which are recognized for their cancer preventive properties. Rosmarinic and ursolic acids are major terpenoids in thyme that possess anti-cancer properties. Thyme contains an essential oil that is rich in thymol, a powerful antiseptic, antibacterial, and a strong antioxidant.

In my house we eat a lot of tabouleh.  Tabouleh, tabouli, no matter how you say or spell it, is both delicious and good for you. What I love about it too is that it is versatile; for as many ways there are to spell it, there are just as many ways to make it. For this I head to the farmers market as I put A LOT of herbs in mine, far more than I can grow in my small garden.  Keep in mind that ideally, the salad should be green with specks of white, but make it whatever way you prefer.

Bulgur Tabouleh           

1 cup Bulgur wheat (or Quinoa, see notes below)

1 11/2 cups boiling water

1 ½ tsp salt

¼ cup lemon juice (or more)

¼ cup olive oil, plus more (I like lemon infused, but any good quality, extra virgin is fine)

Parsley, mint, dill, cilantro (several cups/bunches of these, chopped, and any combination, created to taste)

Chopped tomatoes (optional)

Chopped, seeded cucumbers (optional)

Finely chopped red onions or scallions (optional)

Chick peas (optional)

Pour boiling water over bulgur wheat and salt.  Cover wheat for 30 minus and let sit on the counter.  Stir in lemon juice and oil, chill for 2-3 hours.  Add chopped herbs, and other ingredients of your choice and toss gently, adding more oil as desired.

I add chickpeas to make this salad a meal.  You can also substitute quinoa in this recipe.  For quinoa, bring 1 cup quinoa (rinsed well), ½ tsp salt and 1¼ cups water to a boil over high heat.  Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes.  Remove from heat and let stand, covered, for 5 minutes.  Fluff with a fork.    If you want, you can spread the quinoa out on a large rimmed platter or baking sheet; let cool.  Transfer to a bowl and mix in the lemon juice and oil, then the remaining ingredients.

I love to marinate chicken, turkey, fish, zucchini and eggplant in olive oil and rosemary, and oregano and chicken are great together too.  Thyme is delicious on eggs. Dill is fantastic on cucumbers, fish and zucchini. Basil, well who doesn’t like basil and fresh ripe tomatoes? Add some onion too!  And don’t forget pesto; make some with basil or try cilantro (or spinach, kale, or arugula); use them on grilled foods, spread them on your sandwich.  Fighting cancer never tasted so good…oh, do I love summer. 

Want to see more cancer-fighting foods and the recipes?  Please visit:

http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/cancer-fighting-farm-stand-recipes/

To see Tami’s post on this: http://www.tamiboehmer.com/2012/07/beating-cancer-can-be-delicious-2/

Like these tips?  Join me on my radio show, Survive and Live Well, for tips to treat and beat cancer. Join me weekly as we chat with the experts about treatment options and lifestyle choices that can help you not just treat cancer, but beat cancer, survive, thrive and live well.   At the end of each show I give my cancer fighting tip of the day, so tune in Tuesdays at 1pm, EST.

Elyn

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Elyn Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor, professional cancer coach, radio talk show host, speaker, and the Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Elyn empowers women to choose the path for treatment that best fits their own individual needs.  She is passionate about helping others move forward into a life of health and wellbeing. Elyn lives in New York with her husband and two young boys. To learn about Elyn’s coaching services, please visit:  http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com.  To tune into the Survive and Live Well radio show, please visit www.W4CS.com, Tuesdays at 1pm (EST). To view info on upcoming topics and guests, please visit: http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com/elyns-blog/.

Introducing ... Champions for the Pink Vaccine

More from Dr Kathleen Ruddy....Thank you Dr Ruddy for getting this ball rolling!

July 16 2012

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To the best of my recollection, this is how it happened.

I read about the world's first preventive breast cancer vaccine, developed by Professor Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic in 2010.  I read his paper, published in "Nature Medicine" May 2010, and called his lab to introduce myself  as Founder and President of the only breast cancer foundation whose mission is primary prevention of the disease - and, so, his vaccine was like a dream come true!  I left a message with Tuohy's secretary and twenty minutes later, as I was grocery shopping, he called.  We talked for over an hour.

Then Toni Turchi, a breast cancer survivor who lived in Cleveland, found out about Tuohy's vaccine and started a foundation to support his work.  Tuohy told Toni to get in touch with me, which she did; we talked and became friends and colleagues.
Then Elyn Jacobs, a breast cancer survivor living in New York City, found me on the Internet, contacted me through Facebook, and we met in NYC to chat.  She had never heard of the breast cancer virus or Tuohy's vaccine.  And so we became friends and colleagues in the fight to change the tawdry race for the cure into something more substantial - primary prevention of the disease.  Elyn introducted me to Janet Hanson, who invited me to join 85 Broads - which I happily did.  Thank you Elyn and Janet, and all the wonderful, wonderful women I've met through 85 Broads.
Then Judy Fitzgerald got breast cancer.  Shei's a retired teacher in Rhode Island.  She learned about Tuohy's vaccine, contacted Tuohy to tell him she was going to help suppport his work, and he told her to get in touch with me.  Judy and I became friends and colleagues in this enlarging grassroots movement to fund Tuohy's vaccine.
Then Elyn Jacobs invited me to join her on her weekly radio show two weeks ago, and Cindy Sullivan, a breast cancer survivor living in Colorado was listening in and went berserk when she learned of Tuohy's vaccine and the total lack of funding for it.  Cindy got in touch with me and suggested that this small band of women supporting Tuohy's vaccine gather together on a Skype conference call to put our heads together to what would happen, which we did this past week.  Thank you Cindy, that was brilliant.  So obvious, but so brilliant.
And now, three days later, we have organized ourselves to support each other's individual efforts, but with the common goal - to see that Tuohy's vaccine gets funded.  And here in the United States not in China.
We've got a brand:  the Pink Vaccine.   It's the world's first preventive breast cancer vaccine.  It doesn't need reinventing as the National Breast Cancer Coalaition would like you to think.  It already exists.  It's in Cleveland.  It just needs to be funded to see if it's safe in women; and if safe, whether it is effective.
We've chosen a name for our group:  Champions for the Pink Vaccine.
We have a domain:  pinkvaccine.com
We have  a Pinterest site:  The Pink Vaccine.
We've got groups on Facebook and LinkedIn:  The Pink Vaccine.
And we're going to create a CPU for information about the Pink Vaccine:  a blog where the Champions can post and share hard facts, dispel falacies, promote awareness, and generate ideas for how to fund the Pink Vaccine - the world's first preventive breast cancer vaccine.
Stay tuned.  According to complexity theory, it only takes two individuals to move a crowd in any one direction.  (Did you know that? It's true.)    But we have five women who intend to move the crowd toward the Pink Vaccine.  Think how fast we can move it now.
Please join us.  We're going to have a blast; we already have.  And we're going to do great things for the world, starting with funding the world's first preventive breast cancer vaccine.
Take a break from racing.  Take a peek at us.  Thanks!

Dr Kathleen Ruddy

Read more at http://www.85broads.com/public/blogs/kathleen-ruddy/articles/introducing-champions-for-the-pink-vaccine#wGmCke7Bhf9f1Eud.99

Breast Cancer Survivor Is Tired of the Race for the Cure: She Wants Prevention

The following is a guest post by Dr Kathleen Ruddy. I am proud to be part of a special group of ladies dedicated to funding a breast cancer vaccine that is both preventive and curative.

Breast Cancer Survivor Is Tired of the Race for the Cure: She Wants Prevention

April 30th, 2012 at 8:13pm

Toni Turchi is a woman who’s been running for more than thirty years, but she’s not interested  in a race for the cure; she wants prevention of breast cancer.
As a woman who always maintained a healthy lifestyle, and faithfully had her mammograms every year, she knows that prevention is more than a just smoothie word you paste across other slick words like “awareness” – for she was diagnosed with breast cancer on March 7, 2011 – and she knows that prevention, like love, is something you do, not something you say.

And what Toni is doing is this:  she’s going to give prevention the boost it needs to get itself out of the mouths of Madison Avenue mad men and into the clinic, for she’s thrown her weight behind Professor Vincent Tuohy’s preventive breast cancer vaccine developed at the Cleveland Clinic the year before she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, a vaccine that has yet to be funded by large breast cancer foundations or the federal government.
Toni is not going to race for the cure, she’s demanding prevention.  She created the Toni Turchi Foundation several weeks ago and has been tirelessly working to get Tuohy the recognition, support, and money he needs to take his vaccine off the shelf at the Cleveland Clinic, where it has been parked for the past two years for lack of funding, and into clinical trials and on to women as soon as possible.
Did you know it only takes two people to move a crowd?  Yes, that’s right:  it only takes two people to move a crowd in a particular direction.  For details on this remarkable phenomenon, Google “complexity theory” and read all about it.  In the meantime, there are now two people who have officially taken on the task of moving a crowd of women who don’t want breast cancer in the direction of funding Tuohy’s vaccine – Toni Turchi and I.
All we need is a crowd.  Please help us get one.  And please take a look at the Toni Turchi Foundation website and donate to this very worthy cause.
http://toniturchifoundation.org

Healing Cancer Naturally, Dental Toxins and More!

Choosing the best path for treatment is a very individual process.  Many people choose conventional treatment for their cancer, and many do not.  It’s all about finding and choosing the right treatment for you, for your body and your cancer.  Knowing your options is key, but equally as important is knowing the pros and cons of each treatment.  While there are no guarantees, we need to know –what are the chances the protocol will treat the cancer? And will it come with temporary or life threatening side effects?  I don’t like that word, side effect.  If treatment can cause serious damage, I am not so sure the damage can be referred to as a side effect.  But anyway, can these so called side effects be avoided? What are the chances for recurrence?  Will the treatment encourage or discourage the return of the cancer or new cancer? The recent news about Robin Roberts only brings awareness to the subject; sadly, she is hardly alone in her plight. Last week we spoke about a potential vaccine for cancer, but until we have that, we still have to treat our cancer. So today on the show, my guest, Bill Henderson, talked about healing cancer naturally, by means of a gentle, non-toxic therapy with no side effects (other than improved health and less cancer.)

Cancer is not a symptom, a random tumor that must simply be removed.  It is an imbalance in the body, a cry for help, if you will, that we need to take care of ourselves; that our body and soul require attention.  If we do not fix the imbalance or the reason for the cancer, the cancer will likely recur and/or spread, and certainly will not go away. 

I loved Bill’s answer to “If your wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, what would you recommend she do?” First, he would send her to the dentist. Routine dental work, such as root canals, tooth extractions (especially the removal of wisdom teeth), etc. can cause massive infections in the mouth that spread throughout the lymph system and contribute to cancer, especially breast cancer. To learn more about dental concerns and cancer, please view: http://www.cancertutor.com/Other/Breast_Cancer.html.  He also spoke at length about choosing the right dentist, one who is trained in the safe correction of dental culprits. “In the U.S., there are 160,000 dentists in the American Dental Association and another 7,400 dentist who are oral surgeons.  Of those, there are less than 50 I would trust.”  For a list of dentists that Bill recommends, please email me. 

Second, he would address her stress issues, as often times repressed stress can lead to and fuel cancer. This stress-reaction can stem from an event that took place years prior to our diagnosis. He strongly recommends that we read Dr Brad Nelson’s The Emotional Code, to uncover and resolve stress issues or events that are causing our cancer, and preventing us from healing.
Lastly, he would change her diet, although he avoids that word “diet” as it implies something temporary. Eating well is a lifelong commitment, not something we do for just a few weeks.

 All of these actions are important in our quest for wellness.

What he stressed was the importance of addressing the cause of the cancer as a means to cure it. What he didn’t do was suggest that his wife head off to a cancer clinic.  For some people, some cancers, this may be the way to go.  However, no matter what treatment we choose, if we don’t change the environment in which our cancer was permitted to grow, it will be very difficult to cure it. Bill’s argument for treating cancer naturally is a compelling one.  To learn more about it, please visit Bill’s website or read his book, Cancer-Free.

The best thing we can do is to consider the origin of our cancer, address it, and choose the best possible treatment for our cancer, our body, our needs.

To read more on changing the cancer environment, please visit: http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/changing-the-cancer-environment/.

Please join me next week on Survive and Live Well as I talk with my guests about two important topics: mesothelioma and early detection of lung cancer. 

Have a happy 4^th and see you next week!
Elyn

Elyn Jacobs is a breast cancer survivor, professional cancer coach, radio talk show host, speaker, and the Executive Director for the Emerald Heart Cancer Foundation. Elyn empowers women to choose the path for treatment that best fits their own individual needs.  She is passionate about helping others move forward into a life of health and wellbeing. To learn more about Elyn’s coaching services, please visit:  http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com.  To tune into the Survive and Live Well radio show, please visit www.W4CS.com, Tuesdays at 1pm (est).