Coping with Serious Illness
This video provides information on typical responses to a diagnosis of advanced disease, understanding illness as a source of stress and how to take care of yourself and live well.
Stress and Mindfulness
In this video, we explain how to use mindfulness techniques to manage the stress of living with a serious health condition. In this video there are four different mindfulness exercises demonstrated. This may help you find a mindfulness practice you could use every day. To make it easier, we have included timestamps so you can skip to any exercise – you can drag the play bar to the time shown.
4:11 – Checking in
12:13 – Mindfulness of the hand
23:09 – Mindfulness of the breath
31:57 – The hourglass
Body Image and Sexuality
In this video, we discuss the effects of illness on our body image and sexuality, and highlight the steps we can take to help combat these effects.