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Story 12/02/22

9 tips to reduce your stress and anxiety when you have metastatic breast cancer

How do you cope with stress and anxiety when you have metastatic breast cancer? Participants from the Telling stories, making meaning video series offer strategies to help you find calm.

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Metastatic Breast Cancer Series: Managing Stress and Anxiety

This guide offers practical methods to help you lower the stress of ongoing treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Explore common feelings and choose from a variety of tools to help cope with ...

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Breathing exercise for relaxation

Breast cancer can leave you tired, overwhelmed and stressed. Focused breathing exercises can help you tap into your body’s natural relaxation mode, focus on the present moment, find a sense of ...

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Coping with stress in relationships with metastatic breast cancer

You may be afraid to talk about your feelings or fears with friends and family because you think they will become upset or withdraw from you. Yet you might want and even need those conversations.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

The most widely researched meditation program is called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or MBSR. It combines a variety of techniques, including body scan, sitting meditation, and gentle and ...

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Massage therapy

Massage is known to help reduce stress, anxiety and pain, and relieve tension. Research shows a cancer diagnosis and treatment can make it harder to relax and be calm.

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Emotional Health

In the days immediately following a breast cancer diagnosis, lots of different emotions can come up, and some of them can feel intense — fear, sadness, anger, and numbness are all normal and ...

Story 05/17/21

Finding relief: Managing stress after a breast cancer diagnosis

From acupuncture to a chiropractor and kickboxing to yoga, Shannon McQuillan Norris talks about managing side effects, getting in shape, and making herself a priority after a breast ...

Story 04/21/20

Living Beyond Breast Cancer Fund provides help when money is tight: Lourdes

Lourdes, a single mother of two living with metastatic breast cancer writes about the financial stress she has been under during breast cancer treatment and how the LBBC Fund helped.

Story 03/19/20

Managing stress during COVID-19 scare

LBBC spoke with licensed psychologist Pamela Ginsberg, PhD, about managing the stress, anxiety, and loneliness that may result from COVID-19 and social distancing.