From the onset of the cancer diagnosis, we step out of self-love and step into self-judgment. We ask ourselves, “what did I do wrong?” “What could I have done differently?” It is through these and other conscious and unconscious judgments that we begin to create the emotional pain that drives a rift between ourselves and self-love at the very moment when self-love is the blanket we need to wrap ourselves in for healing.

When we receive a cancer diagnosis, the fear is overwhelming regardless of the stage of cancer we are in. The diagnosis immediately cuts off our ability to be rational. All we know in that moment is we want to live. Our desire for survival drives us to hand all our choices about our emotional and physical health recovery to others—and sometimes even to fate. When we deny our own capacity to recover, we relinquish our power to the diagnosis and prognosis. In turn, we either prolong our road to good health or never regain it.

Self-healing is one of our human gifts! But, the fear we experience with a cancer diagnosis robs us of our power to do so – or even believe we can. There is no doubt that illness gets in the way of us living our lives with peace and joy and interferes with the natural process of good health. But what is illness really? It is a message! Inside every illness there is a call to action. We need to tune out the static and interference of the fear the diagnosis has engulfed us in so we can listen to the call of the healer within.

Denial of our own individuality in health or sickness is always fueled by fear. When we experience a cancer diagnosis, the isolating fear causes us to rush and seek opinions of our diagnosis and prognosis from family, friends, coworkers and neighbors. Or we desperately try to align ourselves with others who have been diagnosed with a similar cancer. Seeking out others’ opinions and comparable cases are understandable consequences of us consciously striving for connection in the middle of a new reality. “There is safety in numbers,” we’ve been told. Unconsciously, we are attempting to drown out all the internal fear by turning up the external noise – the distractions. But what we don’t understand is that our cancer isn’t our mother’s breast cancer, our sister’s lung cancer or even our friend’s ovarian cancer. 

Our cancer diagnosis is an arrow pointing to where inner healing is most needed.

I will help you reclaim your abilities to facilitate the healing you seek in the following ways:

• Recognizing and changing the negative beliefs you have about your cancer diagnosis and prognosis. These conscious and unconscious beliefs will keep you in a state of fear and dimmish your capacity to love and nurture yourself through this health crisis.
• Engaging your full power to claim ownership of every aspect of your well-being. When you are consumed by the debilitating fear of cancer that is all around you, you are not leaving room for engaging in your own healing.
• Finding freedom to be present with any feeling that you experience, without judgement. The immense emotional pain we feel when we are diagnosed with cancer is a result of self-judgement, which keeps us stuck in the emotional pain of our illness. By acknowledging your self-judgement and releasing it, you are empowered to create space for self-healing.
• Reclaiming your individuality so you can understand the how and why of YOUR cancer promotes inner healing and outer health. Seeking to belong in sickness or health only divides us from our true self and bars us from emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being. 

The counselling sessions combine education, tools, techniques, guided imagery and energy release therapies to engage the client’s conscious, unconscious and sub-conscious aspects of themselves in order to achieve healing and return to wholeness. Among the techniques employed are:

• Healing emotional wounds of the past.
• Inner child recovery.
• Physical healing, working with the 5 Biological Laws of German New Medicine.
• Guided meditations.
• Connecting to your Higher Self.

1. Pay for your initial session through this website.
2. Jo-Anne will contact you for a pre-session conversation.  
3. Your full 2-hour initial session will be scheduled at the end of that call