SURVIVORS become  THRIVERS

Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy treat the physical body with the intent to cure breast cancer.  The Healing Consciousness Foundation provides several support services and resources to empower breast cancer survivors to become thrivers. Most patients, once discharged by their healthcare provider, have no clue what comes next.

Surviving the “Cliff”

What comes next is uncertainty, as if you are on the edge of a cliff with no idea where to go. Everyone who goes through the treatment of breast cancer, or any cancer for that matter, arrives at a moment when the physical treatment of cancer is complete. Dr DuPree has been caring for women and men with breast cancer for more than 35 years and has come to recognize this as  “The Cliff” .

Reaching  “The Cliff”  typically occurs between two weeks to two months after treatment is finished, when fear sets in and rational thinking ceases to exist. Suddenly the life you had before your diagnosis and treatment is over and your new life is unrecognizable and plagued with fear of the unknown. You have three options: 

1) Remain paralyzed with fear on the edge of the cliff, hanging on for dear life. 

2) Free fall to the ground, landing wherever you land, feeling doomed. 

3) Find your wings and learn to fly.