An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer Recovery - Hypnotherapy Course - Healthy Audio
Innovation and Research Award Winner 2005
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About An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer
We care about breast cancer so much we developed an emotional support treatment program specifically to breakthrough the often unspoken, and unexpected emotional recovery issues encountered on your recovery journey.
Our home use program is a breakthrough for those who struggle to understand the emotional aspects of this disease. Importantly emotions lag behind the physical recovery. With this awareness the author Michael Mahoney went to work doing something about it, and for years now this audio program has brought comfort to many breast cancer survivors. He won an award for his innovation, and this program has been mentioned in highly respected Aomena life magazine.
An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer Recovery - Hypnotherapy Course - Healthy Audio
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An easily available resource for the respite, comfort, restoration and renewal of calm and well being for those who are emotionally and physically recovering from breast cancer.
As a breast cancer survivor, you know you have come through a long and arduous journey. You coped, you may have cried, you worried, you may have even become emotionally paralysed with fear. But you survived the breast cancer treatment. Perhaps you are still taking that journey, and for others, the main recovery process and the support meetings are over. Perhaps you know you need more support, but just cannot bring yourself to yet another meeting, or your life situation will not allow it.
After all, you are supposed to be “fine” now. But you may not be. You have gone through the long, difficult, physical trauma that is associated with breast cancer. When physical healing has been completed, even after some considerable time, as a breast cancer survivor, you may often feel drained and your ability to cope emotionally becomes strained when all the support systems provided during treatment are then withdrawn.
You are expected to recover quickly once you are healed physically, but the emotional trauma to your life is something you may still be dealing with long after your treatment is over.
Some family members, friends and co-workers who were there for you during the “worst of it” now expect you to get back into life. Some may even want you to act as if nothing happened or perhaps as if it weren’t as bad as it was, but you still feel like you are not over it. Now that the “urgency” of the disease has left, and you have spent all your inner resources to carry on, you find yourself depleted and exhausted – almost like a delayed reaction – and it still hurts. Deeply. You are still healing emotionally and you still need support. 
An Aid To Emotional Recovery After Breast Cancer© is an innovative in-home-use therapy program that provides emotional support and serves to fill that gap in the support system in the final stages of emotional healing and recovery and beyond.
Authored and recorded by clinical hypnotherapist Michael Mahoney of Cheshire England, with the assistance, strength and bravery of breast cancer patients, this innovative CD program (or MP3 download) is the result of 5 years in clinical research and piloting.
An Aid To Emotional Recovery After Breast Cancer© is a recording with a difference; Different because it was developed, recorded and piloted specifically for sufferers of breast cancer ~ women and men.
The autor, Michael Mahoney, a medical centre based clinical hypnotherapist works with cancer survivors and identified a common thread of experience and often distress in his patients. Simply emotional support was either ill defined or explained to patients. This lack of knowledge and expectation often led patients to falter in their recovery, when they and everyone else expected it to continue. The recording explains why and how, and guides the listener back into recovery, gently and with sensitivity.
This audio recording is designed to help the individual emotionally during and following recovery. It is so often mentioned by recovering breast cancer patients that “people now just seem to think I am alright again”. Few people who have not gone through an emotional and physical trauma can understand the impact such occurrences have on the emotions of the individual. This audio program goes some way in helping in the all-important emotional healing which is needed before true recovery is felt and achieved.
As the title suggests, the CD is an aid to emotional recovery. It is not an alternative to breast cancer treatment. The connection between mind and body is well known in medical circles, a positive mindset is acknowledged to aid both emotional and physical recovery.
The program has been reviewed and accepted as a suitable aid for breast cancer recovery in Hospitals throughout the UK. Each hospital breast cancer team consisting of numerous physicians, oncologist nurses and specialists reviewed the CD before it was even considered to be recommended to patients. Now this program is not only available to patients via these hospitals, but to breast cancer survivors through this website as well.
It is our hope that this CD is a start to providing additional resources in the area of emotional healing and support to those women who may not otherwise have had access to support of this kind previously.
We also hope that the list of hospitals, outlets and resources for the program will continue to grow making it even more accessible.
*In July 2005 Michael won the Innovation and Research Award 2005 for his work and development of An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer© program at the prestigious Warrington Business Awards.
An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer emotional relief program: Inspirational CD or MP3.
2005 Innovation & Research Award winner!
This breast cancer care CD offers help with emotional recovery after breast cancer. For a list of UK hospitals holding our leaflets please click here.
Track 1: The introduction explains in clear, easy to understand language, why emotional recovery lags behind the physical recovery. This informative explanation, allows the listener to realise that their emotional experiences are often commonplace for individuals who have been through the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. This important track paves the way for the following three tracks.
Note: The introduction is also useful as an aid for care providers and loved ones to understand what the individual has been through emotionally and so will help them to understand the emotional aspects too.
Track 2: Designed to help the listener to relax, or re-learn to relax and to release negative thoughts and feelings, including the fears and feelings of being overwhelmed which are so often experienced by breast cancer patients. This track uses gentle imagery and guidance to not only release negative thought patterns and fears, but also encourages the listener to recognise their inner strengths, resources, talents, gifts and skills. This positively encourages the listener to once again take control and to build new positive thought patterns.
Track 3: Continues the process started in track 2, encouraging the listener to build on their inner strengths and learning; and to aid positive outlooks on life, and new perspectives. This positive encouragement can help in the individuals’ self-transformation.
Track 4: A short track of enjoyable ambient music, without imagery or voice over, which can be used by the listener as background music to develop their own relaxation methods and other processes learned from the previous tracks.
This recording provides over 72 minutes of guidance and relaxation. This recording also uses the successful Rainbow session from Chronic Pain 110© recording and excerpts from the Stress Awareness© CD.
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An Aid to Emotional Recovery After Breast Cancer© was developed to help in the emotional recovery following physical healing, but if you are facing breast cancer, the program may also be helpful upon initial diagnosis to aid with sleep, coping with the diagnosis and further coping with the treatment, and then assisting recovery both emotionally as well as physically. Required medications, radiation or chemotherapy do indeed take their toll, and sometimes medications can fall short in what is needed.
A course in clinical hypnotherapy and guided imagery can be a powerful and effective coping and emotional recovery tool, helping with overall healing, and even increasing healing time. When pain medications fail to fully be effective, hypnotherapy has been proven to take the edge off of severe pain, or even alleviate it – thus helping your medication to do its work more effectively, or even replacing it when not medically indicated or prudent to continue due to drug interactions or addiction avoidance.
Upon learning of a cancer diagnosis, guided imagery and hypnotherapy can ease the trauma, help with sleeping difficulties and worry, and make the body more relaxed and receptive to medical intervention, procedures and treatment. It is known that stressors on the body – including stressful thoughts – all play a role in making the body less receptive to healing – hypnotherapy can address many aspect of the cancer journey, and give your body the best chance for overall healing, recovery or coping that is needed. It is gentle, it is safe and has no side effects – it is fully caring for yourself – mind, body and emotion.
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An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer: Buying Options
Product Options:
CD: CDs can be played on traditional CD players and computers. The audio programme will be sent to you in the post as one or more CDs in a discreet case. If the programme includes a listening schedule, this will be included as a printed booklet.
MP3 Download: This format is suitable for use on computers and MP3 players only and can be downloaded onto your computer immediately once your purchase has been completed. To do so, you will need a fast (ADSL / Broadband) internet connection. If the programme includes a listening schedule, this will be made available as a PDF document which you can print. As soon as you have completed your purchase, you will receive an email with one or more links and instructions for downloading your programme
Other treatment programmes to consider
A diagnosis of breast cancer, even following recovery, may leave you feeling vulnerable and perhaps you could do with some extra support ~ these additional titles of gentle guided imagery and hypnotherapy may provide that extra cushion of care to help ease the process – especially helpful to either complement or reduce pain medications.
Breast Cancer pain relief
Breast cancer needn’t always be synonymous with pain, but regrettably it can be a fact. When medications fail to provide relief, or as an adjunct to them, the Chronic Pain program can prove to be a very effective tool in addressing pain associated with cancer and other existing conditions. Using gentle guided imagery and hypnotherapy, pain can be reduced or even eliminated, thereby providing your body with the tools you need to help you heal and ease your mind to know you can cope a bit better and more easily. The sessions can be used during treatments, or as needed – some find one particular session – Light Count – can be especially helpful in taking the edge off of intensity during times of acute pain.
Coping with Anxiety
There is a natural tendency to feel anxious when a diagnosis of breast cancer is given – this is actually quite normal – this program of gentle guided imagery and hypnotherapy will help you to cope and reduce those feelings of anxiety to help guide the body to make it more receptive to the various medical interventions and procedures needed. Research studies show that when the body is less anxious, individuals will demonstrate better healing and coping with illness
General Relaxation
Worry and just the stress of a medical condition can make it difficult to fully relax and let go so that your body can restore and renew itself – relaxation through guided imagery and hypnotherapy can effectively provide your body and mind with a boost to keep going and making the journey lighter
Insomnia: Restoring natural sleep patterns
Concern about the initial cancer diagnosis, various treatments and worry can play havoc with sleeping patterns – this program may be helpful to aid in sleep – especially when sleep aid medication is contraindicated due to other medications or conditions, or personal preference.
Simply Music
There are times when you just don’t need words – Simply music can put you into a soothing mood without any previous associations to other music melodies you already know – a gentle balm to help you relax – also a good way to mask “medical” sounds during procedures or the noise heard while in hospital, or while waiting for procedures, to keep you feeling safe and calm.
Start Afresh 28: Stop Smoking
You certainly are already aware that smoking causes additional stress to the body. If you are a smoker and your physician has indicated that you must stop smoking in order to more successfully progress with your cancer therapy, and you are ready to give up smoking, this program may be a helpful adjunct to your overall healing by using guided imagery and hypnosis to help you quit and progress more optimally with your complete medical treatment.
Stress Awareness
Illness of any kind causes stress to the body. With a diagnosis of breast cancer, you are aware of at least one source of the stress. This program can help you cope with the known cause, as well as the subsequent related sources – pressures of family, lifestyle changes, and other areas of your life that become changed. This program of gentle guided imagery and hypnotherapy helps you through it
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