experience of his life has allowed me to grow with him. – Tamara Green
Having cancer may seem like a wrongness, a mistake in your life plan. Certainly, it wasn’t the reality we had in mind! But what if cancer is also a gift? An opportunity to press the reset switch? In Live Calm With Cancer (and Beyond…), stage IV cancer survivor David Dachinger and his wife, Tamara Green, talk straight about their cancer journey and how you, too, can navigate the choppy waters of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. Through stories, mindfulness tips, and meditations, they show the way to anyone who is experiencing cancer-related stress, anger, sadness, isolation, or fear. In these pages you’ll discover: • How to release depression and anxiety • How to experience the tremendous power of love and presence 24 | MY Magazine
• How to choose and protect your inner peace Major illness is life-altering. If you or a loved one desire less stress and greater ease, this book is for you.
ADVICE ON LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE
Regardless of what you’re going through, show love and be kind to the one that is going through the experience. Stress and fear can play a large factor when someone you love is in pain. The truth is, that it is really hard to be a human on this planet and if you can make a practice of giving yourself lots of kudos for having the strength to get up and out of bed in the morning to face another day, it will make your journey a little bit easier. Being married to my husband for the last 23 years has been a huge gift to me, having the strength to help him through the most challenging
One of the lessons that we’ve learned or had reinforced during our Cancer experience was to be in allowance. Allow what is, rather than fighting it. Doing this allowed us to regroup and figure out what the next step was. Approach things with gratitude, even at your worst when you hit bottom, you can always find something to be grateful for. Tamara and I would do that quite often. We would go out for gratitude walks, and alternate statements back and forth about things in our lives we were grateful for. That alone shifted us so dramatically out of negativity and helped us to focus on the positive. We allowed ourselves to see that things were not a hundred percent terrible and that there were good things in our lives that we were deeply grateful for. In every experience look for the gifts, some of the most negative and difficult things in our lives can give us some of the most valuable insight and amazing opportunities to reinvent ourselves. It allows us to press the reset button and to try something different. – David Dachinger To learn more you can visit their website at lovingmeditations.com or contact them at info@lovingmediations.com