This is Episode #31 and you’ll hear Host Dr. Meenal Agarwal and guest Isabel Galiano discuss confronting cancer. Watch the video episode on YouTube and listen to the audio episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast spots – follow and leave a 5-star review if you’re enjoying the show!
Uncover Your Eyes with Dr. Meenal Episode #31: Confronting Cancer with Cancer Coach Isabel Galiano
“Everything is always so important - until you get sick. Then, you realize nothing is more important than your health.” That’s a quote from our guest, Isabel Galiano, a Certified Nutrition & Health Coach specializing in cancer. As a two-time breast cancer survivor, she’s transformed her journey into a mission to empower those impacted by cancer to take proactive steps toward their health and wellbeing. Hear her own experience with cancer, the stages of a cancer journey, the most common feelings & emotions with cancer patients, the importance of exercise and sleep, and how to focus on your mental health & wellbeing during a cancer journey. This episode covers everything from cancer to sleep. Here’s a small sample of what you will hear in this episode:
- The role of caffeine and sleep in recovery
- Supporting loved ones through illness
- What is self-care?
- How exercise affects recurrence rates
- The mental health journey of cancer diagnoses
- How to accept occurrences out of your control
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Show Notes
- Confronting Cancer with Cancer Coach Isabel Galiano
- [1:02] Our guest Isabel Galiano!
- [2:55] What would you say was the most difficult aspect of your own cancer journey?
- [3:24] Uncertainty at the start of treatment
- [4:18] What is it about society or our culture that we're not able to accept and make it easy for others to reveal these diagnoses?
- [5:15] Blaming ourselves for cancer
- [6:14] Ask yourself what is this guilt trying to teach me?
- [6:44] The mental aspect of not having control
- [9:08] How do we work around this to be okay with it mentally?
- [10:31] How can we accept ourselves and be happy with our body and these changes?
- [12:28] How is the mental journey of an illness different when it's yourself vs. a family member?
- [13:26] So what should I say? What shouldn't I say? Is this supportive?
- [14:48] How to overcome the depression that accompanies illness?
- [17:09] How helpful is exercise during these times?
- [19:29] How often, how much should people really be exercising to help that recurrence rate?
- [20:56] How do you cope with that fear of recurrence?
- [23:16] How do caffeine and sleep play a role in recovery?
- [25:59] Isabel’s definitive advice on caffeine
- [26:56] What does self-care mean and how much of it should we start with?
- [30:03] If it’s something that makes you happy, it’s self-care
- [32:18] Who should people be surrounding themselves with?
- [34:17] Diagnoses can be positive challenges
- [35:43] Connect with Isabel Galiano
- [36:10] Subscribe to Uncover Your Eyes on your favorite podcast platform and YouTube, and learn more about Dr. Meenal on Instagram @Dr.MeenalAgarwal
- Theme Song: “Upbeat Motivational Pop Rock” by Alexey Anisimov