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So why this image? All, I hope, will become clear.

I’ve been contemplating the fact that this year marks 10 years of travelling a path, which I have come to realise is a “pathless path, to seek the healer within”. Over those 10 years, that journey within has lead to … Continue reading

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A contemplation and musings, following a visit to the brain surgeon

As I began to type this short post this morning, to originally share with friends on Facebook, I wasn’t quite sure of the direction it was going to take or what it may say to those who would read it. … Continue reading

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What does Person-Centred Care Mean?

A personal reflection from Dr Neil Bindemann This is simply to help illustrate that for me, to provide a #personcentredcare and #traumainformed clinical practice, means spending time & energy using my senses to really listen to a person.  I have come to understand that … Continue reading

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Food and Cancer: Can ‘regulation of sugar’ break the connection?

There have been many studies that have generated considerable data to believe that sugar in the blood (more typically referred to as blood glucose) can be associated with both triggering, and feeding the progression, of cancer. However, it is currently … Continue reading

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Why are cancer deaths continuing to rise?

This post is in part a response to a recent very poignant and passionate post by Chris Lewis ‘Preventing Cancer Deaths in the UK’. In it Chris, who has been living through a cancer diagnosis since 2007, shares how the … Continue reading

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Why should a ‘vaccine’ approach to brain tumours give reason for hope?

I suspect ‘vaccination’ is a word that many have become more familiar with since the COVID 19 pandemic. I also imagine that, most if not all, reading this will have experienced this form of treatment, either in their childhood or … Continue reading

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Moving Thoughts: How Emotions change the way you think.

In this short article my mind has selected several words to form various thoughts, that I have come to appreciate as ’heart-felt’. This is because I believe they have passed through the heart, while listening to and hearing from many … Continue reading

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Recognising the significance of cancer language on emotion health.

How often do people stop to consider the #emotional consequences of a word. I’m hoping by sharing a result like this, more people make the time to learn to become more aware of such consequences of words. (More on that … Continue reading

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An Englishman’s Daughter

Over 90 years ago, an Englishman came to India and fell in love, literally. He married a local girl and in 2019, their daughter, now well into her 80s, asked me this question: “Can you show me my soul?” I … Continue reading

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Is the Warrior Mind a Worrier Mind?

This is a question that I am asking you to answer for yourself. Why, because this is a very personal aspect of someone’s emotional health, especially when they are living with a life-altering diagnosis, such as cancer. Therefore this post … Continue reading

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