Weight Management and Exercise

Have you been looking into integrative therapy methods to reduce stress, lower your anxiety, and bolster your sense of relaxation? Reiki and energy healing may be able to help! Those that practice reiki deliver energy to your body using their hands to improve the flow of your energy to support healing while assisting in balancing your energy throughout your body. Reiki also works towards rebalancing the human biofield while building one’s resistance to stress and supporting self-healing methods. While reiki is considered part of the energy healing practice there are other systems of hands-on energy healing techniques that originate within different cultures, religions, long standing traditions from folk medicine, and from ancient practices. Some of these practices come from great ancient civilizations such as Babylonia, Egypt, India, Rome, Greece, and Assyria. Some forms of energy healing include reiki, acupuncture, touch therapy, chakra balancing, crystal healing, and aura cleansing. If you’ve been looking for a different therapy approach to coincide with your current cancer treatments it may be worth your while to look into reiki and energy healing.

Exercise and moving your body for the recommended amount of 30 minutes a day is essential to your overall health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, not enough adults are incorporating physical activity to their daily lives which places them at risk for various chronic diseases. Exercises like brisk walks, jogging, biking, even stand up desks for working are various ways to include physical activity!

Cannabidoil (commonly known as CBD) is creating a lot of buzz in the cancer world because of its potential benefits to patients and survivors. Federally legalized back in 2018, CBD has exploded in popularity due to its ability to help treat anxiety, insomnia, nausea and pain.

The relationship between weight and breast cancer risk is both simple and complicated at the same time and it can be difficult to sift through all of the information online. Since weight management is one of the top five challenges many breast cancer survivors face long term, we have done all the research for you in order to simplify and break down the interplay between cancer and obesity and outline the risks and ways to change your lifestyle in order to avoid these risks.

The WILMA Dash is coming! The WILMA Dash is coming! This is one of our favorite events each year. As Wilmington, NC’s ONLY all-women’s 5K race, organized by WILMA Magazine and presented by New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Fleet Feet, and Vein Clinics of America, the WILMA Dash brings together over 1,000 women every year.