Michelle Gossett has ovarian cancer that has metastasized to her liver, colon, bladder and uterus. She had just had a punishing chemotherapy treatment that will make her feel intensely ill in a day or so. But on this night she is participating in a session on mindful meditation, one in a series of eight led by Michael Baime, a physician who has just been named director of mind-body medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gossett says these sessions have been "life changing," and that she no longer "catastrophizes" about her future. "My whole focus used to be on cancer so that I became my cancer," she says. "Now I realize I have the power within me to live and enjoy life." (More)
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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