
Learn more about how cancer can be used as a teacher, how telling a new story about cancer changes everything, and how the extraordinary power of community is always available to support your cancer journey. Join Dr. Ricki Pollycove, special guest & author Arlene Karole, and Cancer Story Project host Jon Leland - http://cancerstoryproject.com - as we change the world's conversation about cancer.
ABOUT CANCERTALKS
CancerTalks is a live webcast, video series, and podcast brought to you by the Cancer Story Project. We are committed to creating a new, more empowering conversation about cancer. CancerTalks brings you uplifting, inspiring conversations with cancer survivors, thought leaders and cancer recovery organizations who are changing the world’s story about cancer. In the future, we will also include 3-minute videos from you, the members of our community, about how telling your new story about cancer has changed your life.
Resource Links from this episode:
Arlene Karole:
- https://www.amkjustdiagnosed.com/
- www.linkedin.com/in/arlene-marie-karole
Arlene's Book: Just Diagnosed: What to know. What to expect. What to do next.
- https://www.amazon.com/Just-Diagnosed-Breast-Cancer-expect/dp/1950892824/
- https://www.sharecancersupport.org/
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl:
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807000000/
Please come back for more episodes of CancerTalks in weeks to come or view more episodes, video clips, and more on our Cancer Story Project blog here: https://cancerstoryproject.com/blog
Nov 18, 2020
33 min

How does a doctor with over 40 years of experience help cancer patients to change their stories about their disease in a way that opens them to more love, community, and courage?
In the premiere of the Cancer Story Project's - https://www.cancerstoryproject.com - new online video series and podcast, “CancerTalks,” Dr. Ricki Pollycove shares her experience of more than 43 years in obstetrics and later turning her attention to women with cancer, revealing how it can open our hearts to more love, our lives to more joy, and our life-path to more courage.
Those with a cancer diagnosis and their friends and families will both benefit from this new on-going series from the Cancer Story Project.
Insights in this episode include:
The importance of recognizing cancer as a teacher with valuable lessons
The benefits of building connection through communities of people who are transparent when it comes to their stories about cancer
A perspective on how medical practitioners can provide a broader cancer support system that leads to a more integral approach to health care
If the meta-disease is isolation, the antidote is joyful, loving kindness, and a deep connection with a welcoming community. All of this can have a powerful positive impact on every level of our being including on the body
Resources from this episode:
Who Dies? By Stephen Levine: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/100574/who-dies-by-stephen-and-ondrea-levine/
National Consortium of Breast Centers: http://ncobc.org/
Dr. Pollycove has said, “For decades I've observed how being in the ‘breast cancer club’ can open new doors that expand love and the precious gifts of being connected in community.” We look forward to continuing to change the world’s conversations about cancer by helping as many people as possible to tell new, more empowering stories about cancer.
ABOUT CANCERTALKS
In future episodes, the conversation will expand to include other thought leaders and organizations who are changing the world’s story about cancer, and we will also include 3-minute videos from you, the members of our community, about how changing your own story about cancer has changed your life. Every episode also includes an interactive segment where we invite your comments and questions via Facebook Live and YouTube Live comments. If you would like to do a 3-minute video about how telling a new story about cancer has changed your life, please do so and contact us through the cancer story website.
Check out the Resource Links section for additional helpful information about our mission at the Cancer Story Project.
Join Cancer Story Project digital media wizard, Jon Leland, and Dr. Ricki Pollycove for this premiere episode, and please come back for more episodes of CancerTalks in weeks to come.
Oct 30, 2020
31 min