You are listening to Best Life After Cancer Episode 33.

Well, hey, friends! Crazy times, right? Looting in the capital building, a presidential impeachment, a global pandemic coming up on a year in duration, I mean you can’t make this stuff up! Sounds like an end times sci fi movie. Lots and lots of people have a lot of worries about all of this, and for my Best Lifers, that is just the cherry on top of their cancer sundae. You know what I mean, right? For me, I worry about my all of my people, family, friends, patients, about depression and the effect of isolation as people go through treatment. So, I wanted to spend some time today talking about worry and how it affects emotional wellbeing after cancer.

So what is worry? Worry is an indulgent emotion. What does that mean? It is an emotion that doesn’t move us forward or create results in our lives. It keeps us stuck. Really, it is a habit that we get into and can’t find our way out. The reason it doesn’t...