EmbodiWorks

EmbodiWorks creates a better world through integrative cancer care education and advocacy to reduce cancer risk and improve cancer-related survival, quality of life, and whole person health care.

How do cancer patients and caregivers create an integrative cancer care program?

Addressing whole person health and healing in five areas, topics include body, mind, and spirit, including social and environmental health. EmbodiWorks provides important perspectives about how those aspects of health and life constantly interact and influence one another in people affected by cancer cancer. Educational information on their site explains that no separation exists and only a web of networks creating the whole person. Their Resources section also helps cancer patients and caregivers navigate their cancer journey. How to create an integrative cancer care program, questions for evaluating cancer treatments and providers, help in evaluating cancer research and treatments, integrative providers and clinics, retreats, books, financial assistance, and other reliable resources empowers people dealing with cancer. Articles inform cancer care providers as well with some practitioners serving as authors of website information.

What is integrative cancer care?

Integrative cancer care makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, providers, and disciplines through partnerships supporting optimal health and healing. Providing compassionate, comprehensive care for the whole person, integrative cancer care addresses the totality of body, mind, and spirit, including social and environmental health, for each individual.

Integrative cancer care is about placing the person with cancer in the center of their community, the center of the room, the center of the conversation, the center of themselves.

Recognizing that each person is not defined by their diagnosis.

Seeing each person confronting the disease as integrated.

Helping each person embrace themselves as intact and complete—whole today and for the balance of life.