Cancer Coaching Blog

Life after cancer treatment can be a time for new beginnings. Coaching can help you make sense of this new phase.

Life throws curveballs. Whether it's a new job, a relationship ending, a period of ill health or a family crisis, major events can leave us feeling lost and off-kilter. We may look in the mirror and see a dull reflection of who we once were – our sparkle seems to have vanished.

If you have ever received a cancer diagnosis and treatment, you will have faced physical, emotional and mental wellbeing challenges. Not to mention work, relationships, friendship circles and social lives feeling different to where they were before diagnosis. What may once have been normal or enough feels somehow out of place or just doesn’t feel right.

I have wasted many precious hours in that time between Christmas and New Year convincing myself that I could lose 3 stone by March (nearly every year since the age of 21!), exercise before work every day, only eat bread on days that begin with a T, always deal with post (electronic or otherwise) immediately and efficiently … but without any real planning or understanding of what I was trying to achieve - setting myself up for failure and making me feel like a loser or lazy w