Through her ongoing personal and professional evolution since 1998, Jeannine Walston created integrative cancer care to the whole person. She discovered the importance of attention to the physical body, mind-body connection, spiritual vitality, social support, and a cleaner environment. Research demonstrates that integrative cancer care for the whole person improves quality of life, cancer survival, and cancer prevention.
Mission:
Jeannine Walston provides definitive, reliable education and advocacy about integrative cancer care for the whole person to improve quality of life, cancer survival, cancer prevention, and whole person health care.
Vision:
Moving forward in the 21st century will include more interest and incorporation of integrative cancer care for the whole person with M.D.s, PhDs, nurses, other cancer providers, advocates, and those affected by cancer. Consistently, cancer patients, caregivers, professionals, and the public will receive compassionate, comprehensive person-centered care related to the disease and whole person of the physical body, mind-body connection, spiritual vitality, social support, and a cleaner environment.
Values:
Education – Emphasizing comprehensive, quality information addressing cancer and integrative cancer care for the whole person
Empowerment – Incorporating proactive strategies and placing the individual at the center
Person-Centered Care – Embracing whole person cancer care and top priorities focusing on patients as people
Innovation – Strengthening optimal health and healing to full spectrum systems for patients, caregivers, professionals, and the public
Supportive – Encouraging professional relationships with compassion, kindness, presence, integrity, and responsibly
What is integrative cancer care?
Integrative cancer care makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, providers, and self-care to support optimal health and healing. Through compassionate, comprehensive person-centered care for the whole person, integrative cancer care addresses the totality for each individual of body, mind, and spirit, including social and environmental health.
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.
Focusing on personalized, integrative strategies for each individual.
Helping each person embrace themselves as intact and complete— whole today and for the balance of life.
Why integrative cancer care?
Integrative cancer care reduces cancer risk and improves quality of life, cancer-related survival, and whole person health care. Learn more about the reasons for using integrative cancer care and benefits.
Current statistics from the National Cancer Institute indicate that nearly 40 percent of people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. These numbers and trends are unacceptable.
Cancer care needs innovation. New models are required to reverse the current statistics and trends. Integrative cancer is the answer.
People affected by cancer need and benefit from high-quality education and advocacy. Jeannine’s definitive, reliable integrative cancer care specifics contains the heart of this vision.
What does Jeannine provide for free?
Jeannine provides free information to educate and empower people with cancer, caregivers, professionals, and anyone focused on cancer and integrative cancer care for the whole person to improve quality of life, cancer survival, and cancer prevention through her articles, blogs, mailing list with Top 10 Strategies for Wholeness Against Cancer and newsletters, updates about her work, and more essential information.
What are Jeannine’s professional services?
Cancer Coach: Offers cancer coaching to people with cancer and/or caregivers with extensive, individualized ways to address cancer and integrative cancer care for the whole person.
Consultant: Provides high-quality consulting services for myriad clients, including non-profit, hospitals, clinics, doctors, providers, and other businesses.
Speaker: Presented to thousands of audiences in the United States and with requests abroad. Some topics include conventional treatments, innovative therapies, research, clinical trials, patient-centered care, precision medicine, multiple opinions, the decision-making process, health insurance, treatment prices, financial support, cancer survivorship, policy, and lobbying, as well as my cancer story, integrative cancer care for the whole person, experiences from cancer patients, resilience, and customized speeches based on audience needs.
What is Jeannine’s background?
Jeannine has extensive experience in cancer education and advocacy, health care policy, and both conventional and integrative cancer care. Her career includes work in the U.S. Congress, government agencies, cancer non-profit organizations, hospitals, clinics, doctors, providers, other businesses, patients, and caregivers. After a few years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Legislative Aide, she was a policy advocate and lobbyist at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and assisted the President at the Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy. Jeannine was chosen as the first person to serve in the Food and Drug Administration’s Patient Consultant Program as an advocate in the cancer drug development process, and also selected as a consumer representative in a National Cancer Institute Cooperative Group where she offered patient perspectives about clinical trials design. Jeannine reached a point where her work needed to include more than the cancer diagnosis and instead of the whole person. As a writer, trainer, and spokesperson, Jeannine then educated the public about some aspects of health care through the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clearinghouse. In 2004, Jeannine began her business Healing Focus providing writing, marketing, coaching, and other consulting services. She went through CancerGuides® of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine by James G. Gordon, MD. Jeannine’s work evolved into her own business with services as a Cancer Coach, consultant, and speaker while sharing information and inspiration to support optimal health and healing for people with or without cancer. She has been published in magazines, other media, and spoken to many audiences. Jeannine’s personal health care experiences, especially her journey with a brain tumor since March 1998, deeply inform her work and enrich her perspectives.
How can people create a plan, team, and self-care strategies related to cancer and integrative cancer care for the whole person?
Cancer can be overwhelming, and integrative cancer care is the answer with benefits. To start, explore Jeannine’s articles, blogs, and sign up for her mailing list for Top 10 Strategies for Wholeness Against Cancer and newsletters about cancer and integrative cancer care for the whole person. Learn about specific integrative cancer care strategies and support for the body, mind, spirit, social, and environmental.
Jeannine also directly helps cancer patients and caregivers to assist in creating a plan, team, and self-care strategies.
What is Jeannine’s background as a Cancer Coach?
Since 1998, Jeannine has worked in the cancer arena, including at the U.S. Congress, cancer non-profits, Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s Clearinghouse, professionals, other businesses, and individuals. Subsequently, she acquired a tremendous amount of information about cancer treatment options and healing strategies. In the process, Jeannine’s own experience with a brain tumor has informed her knowledge. Through her journey, she understands cancer health and healing from the inside out. In addition, Jeannine went through CancerGuide® through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine by James G. Gordon, M.D.
Learn more about Jeannine’s support at Cancer Coach, praise, and cancer videos.
