Surviving Cancer Hope. Dignity. Empowerment. Healing

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1 Surviving Cancer Hope Dignity Empowerment Healing

2 Hello and Welcome! I m Jeanette Marshall, President and Founder of the National Association of Professional Cancer Coaches You may be here for yourself, or to find support in the form of coaching for a loved one. I wish you didn t have to be here, but if you are, you couldn t have come to a better, or safer, place. When my husband suffered NAPCC Copyright

3 a massive stroke at age 43..., our respective lives, as we knew them, were over. Or so I thought. Rather, it became a truly extraordinary beginning. Let me tell you why. I m sorry Mrs. Marshall, said the attending physician in the emergency department but your husband has had a massive stroke. We don t think he is going to make it. Boy did those words sting! I heard them talking about a new drug called TPA. It is considered a potent blood-clot busting drug that can help many people recover more fully. At his young age, he was a prime candidate for this drug. We re too busy here in emerg tonight to be able to give this to him he s likely not going to make it anyway, the lady doc said to the nurse at his bedside. I have a degree in Human Nutrition and am very loyal to nutritional and integrative healing methods for improving conditions in the body. Four days later, my husband was still alive and still in the Emergency department on a stretcher. He couldn t talk, he couldn t move, and he hadn t eaten or drank a thing in all that time. He was communicating with me through eye contact when I asked him if he was hungry. His eyes instantly shot open. I went home and made him a vegetable broth and returned to feed him. He could have choked to death his nurse angrily yelled at me...warning me not to do that again. Had they been giving him the appropriate attention, they would have known he could swallow. From that moment forward, I took charge of his care and his recovery. Each day I fed him homemade juices until he could eat solid food. This was when I introduced him to a plant based diet and a select few supplements. Every animalplagued hospital meal was returned to the kitchen. When they saw how my husband was responding to this care, they all admitted that he might make it after all. NAPCC Copyright

4 The doc did say, however, that my husband would not be fit for physiotherapy for at least 6 months and that in all likeliness, would be paralyzed for life. I had read that the brain has an amazing ability to regenerate following stroke if the patient receives the right care and empowerment to do so. I knew that nutrition was a huge equation in this and I was determined to do what had to be done. I quit my job at the hospital and took full responsibility for his recovery. Three months of my life was all it took!!! He was back*! Getting him well again was all about being empowered. I was just the one to take on this role. Between nutritional, lifestyle, environmental and emotional support and energy work, my husband recovered. He was discharged from the hospital not six months later, but 4 weeks after his stroke. Today his IQ is higher than my own. I knew that if I could help a neurology patient who was terminal, I could find a way to get over my fear of cancer, too. It was March 24 th of I was putting a nutritional course together for McMaster University s Health Sciences department and I had just booked an appointment to see my 6 th client with stage 4 cancer. This was becoming too overwhelming for me as I began to realize that these patients needed something they were not receiving from their doctors. This is when I made the decision to sink my head into some serious research to see what I could find....continued p.5 *My husband Glen is still alive and healthy today, 20 years later. A retired police officer, he is fully functional, productive and involved in the lives of our 7 grandchildren. Together, we continue to bring awareness to others on the power of nutrition and integrative care for successful, long-term recovery. NAPCC Copyright

5 It wasn t until the spring of 2004 that I had done enough research to feel comfortable changing my specialty from Integrative CAD (heart and stroke) to Nutritional and Integrative Oncology. I was now seeing cancer patients on a regular basis, utilizing the most powerful tools to make a difference between life and death! With my vast knowledge and experience of live conditions in the blood (as a Live Cell Microscopist) and my degree in Nutritional Sciences, I had nurtured professional relationships with cancer researchers and scientists from the most prestigious organizations around the world. This helped me to develop a teaching program for my peers and fellow associates that is now called the Certified Professional Cancer Coach Program (CPCC). This program gives health care professionals an ability to make a difference in the cancer patient s journey and recovery. NAPCC Copyright

6 Jumping ahead to 2012, the CPCC program is now in full swing with over 500 certified professional cancer coaches in Canada and the USA. We are also in Australia and Europe. As founder of the (NAPCC) in 2008, regulated guidelines have been established to enforce a standardized coaching format to be delivered in all community programs. In addition, all NAPCC coaches must have a mandatory health care background and professional health designation. Therefore you will only find registered nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, naturopaths and medical doctors in this organization. In addition we have radiation and psycho-oncologists that have become certified, referring patients to the NAPCC. In the Spring of 2012, The Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation called on us to train and certify their entire staff of counsellors and doctors as professional cancer coaches. Please believe me when I tell you how much you will gain by having a cancer coach. Ensure that your coach carries the CPCC designation to identify his/her membership as an NAPCC Cancer Patient Educator. This program will empower you and improve your odds. Following this page is an outline of our coaching program. We hope that you will trust in us enough to let it work for you. Please ask for our help if you need it. All the best to you in your recovery. NAPCC Copyright Jeanette Marshall

7 The Six-Step Cancer Wipeout Blueprint While these six steps are evidence based factors on the development, progression and reversal of cancers, other factors such as genetics may play a role as well. But genetics alone will not cause you to develop cancer. The human body must be overburdened with additional factors that feed that genetic defect. Therefore, living as preventive a lifestyle as possible can greatly reduce your risk of suffering a genetic predisposition that can lead to cancer. These steps teach you how reversing the many risk factors can lead to a long, happy and productive life. This can be easier than you think when you have a cancer coach with you through this journey. A cancer coach is not your doctor. He or she gives you the time and support you need when you need it...unconditionally. Meet in the office, by phone or in your local health food store. Your coach is always there for you. NAPCC Copyright

8 Step 1 Ever Wonder why You Have Cancer? In this step your coach will provide you with a questionnaire (founded from reliable, peer-reviewed, evidence based studies) to complete. This will take you back to the conception of your being. Yes, it starts with your mother s health during her pregnancy with you. This questionnaire will follow you right through your childhood, youth, adult and senior years to examine your lifestyle, your different environment(s) through the years, your behaviors, your dietary routines and your emotional and psychological health. This questionnaire will then provide us with as accurate a picture of the likely causes leading to your cancer diagnosis. We then follow your results with proven anti-cancer strategies that, when implemented, can and will reverse those conditions in the body that may otherwise keep your cancer within. Bonus Video: The Enemy Within NAPCC Copyright

9 Step 2 Ever Wonder What Else is Out There that Can Help You? When making treatment decisions, do you ever think that there must be another way to outsmart this cancer you have? Any other treatments that can work and yet don t inflict pain, nausea and the deadly, irreversible side effects? Step 2 is about the treatment options that can enhance your response to Surgery, Chemotherapy and Radiation. Treatment options that will reduce your side effects or the real and deadly risks that are brushed aside and not spoken about. Step 2 is also about the options you have that will kill cancer cells without chemo and radiation. Don t you owe it to yourself to know what these are? Don t you owe it to yourself to be educated on your disease and empowered in knowing its recovery options? If you choose NOT to accept traditional therapies for whatever reason, or if you choose QUALITY of life over the potentially deadly treatment side-effects, we can still help you. Bonus DVD Healing Cancer from the Inside out NAPCC Copyright

10 Step 3 Ever Wonder if How and What You Eat Affects Your Cancer? Step 3 will give you the real answers to what foods and supplements are best to consume while you are battling this disease. In fact, should cancer patients take supplements at all? And if so, what are the most reputable brands for conditions such as cancer? There is one change in your diet that must be made for the best, most promising help when fighting cancer. Learn what this is because without it, you may not win this fight! What foods encourage cancer cells to destroy themselves? Coaching provides you with a customized dietary meal plan of delicious cancer fighting recipes that feed the body with nutrients and energy to rebuild your immune system. Learn if your drugs are depleting certain nutrients in your body and how to replace those nutrients safely. Bonus: Some nutrients are not recommended during medical treatments. We will let you know which ones they are so that you can discuss these with your doctor. NAPCC Copyright

11 Step 4 Ever Wonder What Influence your Environment has on your Cancer? Step 4 will help you to remove or eliminate common everyday toxins from your environment. Every day toxins that affect the initiation and development of cancers from harmful substances in every day use. Here you will learn how easy it is to have full control over what is lurking in your home and into your cells. You will learn about one of our most common cancer causing items that most people use on a weekly, if not daily basis. Also, learn about the dangers of EMF s and how your bedroom, kitchen and your work station may be killing you and what you can do about it. Receive a list of healthy substitutions for these everyday harmful products. In this section you will also receive information on how your dental health affects your cancer and where to find an IAOMT member dentist. Bonus: a protocol for safe (from heavy metal poisoning) dental health during cancer. NAPCC Copyright

12 Step 5 Ever Wonder What Your Particular Lifestyle has to do with Your Particular Cancer? Step 5 will show you what your own personal lifestyle risks are and how to correct them so that they no longer feed your cancer. Learn how the challenges of day to day life with cancer change your level of self-confidence, physical strength, sexuality, productivity, happiness etc. Learn and apply these steps to get back on top and in control again. Learn how to identify with physical symptoms, and which ones you can correct yourself, both easily and naturally. Learn of the benefits and protocols of everything from A-Z during cancer assessing your ph and your BBT; how to avoid hair loss with chemo; how to detox the lymph system; how to meditate or visualize; how and when to follow procedural coffee enemas and so, so, many more. NAPCC Copyright

13 Step 6 Ever Wonder How Your Mental and Emotional Health Plays a Role in Your Cancer? Step 6 shows you how cancer develops, progresses and can potentially be eradicated, through the connection your mind has with your body and its cells. Learn about Psycho-Social behaviors and how they support a roller-coaster personality that may contribute to a slow or no recovery. Many people sense that their disease is a wake-up call. That it is now time to embark on a path of fulfilling our psychological and spiritual needs in addition to our nutritional and environmental health. In step 6 we will help you to define your needs as much as you can. If you find that you would like additional guidance in this area, we will be able to refer you to a reputable psychologist in your community who works exclusively with cancer patients. NAPCC Copyright

14 NAPCC Cancer Patient Educators and Coaches The NAPCC is a federally registered non-profit association of varied health professional backgrounds. From Nutritionists to Naturopaths and Registered Nurses to Medical Doctors, their specialty is in Integrative Cancer Care recovery for patients with cancer using the 6-Step philosophy. NAPCC Coaches offer 3-week non-profit Cancer-Wipeout programs in your community. These programs will help you to become familiar with the 6 steps that every cancer patient needs to know in order to help achieve optimal recovery. If after the 3 weeks, you wish to begin a one-on-one program with your CPE on a professional level, he or she will become your full and unwavering partner through your journey and beyond. A tailored program will be developed for you. It will be based on your pathology report, your full history, the treatment decisions that you have made and your desire for guidance during your 6 steps to recovery. She is there when you need her without judgement, without expectations and without harm. NAPCC Copyright

15 To Reach a Cancer Coach Near You, Please Contact The National Association of Professional Cancer Coaches Corporate Office: Ontario CANADA napcc2008@rogers.com NAPCC Copyright