What can Reflexology Add to Conventional Breast Cancer Therapy?
June 30, 2011
Hollye Harrington Jacobs (nurse & social worker) recently made a report about her journey in how to deal with breast cancer. Throughout her tumultuous FBC (F-bomb Breast Cancer) journey, each and every day, she looked for Silver Linings. No matter how bad she felt (e.g. laying on the bathroom floor for hours at a time), she describes that she was slways able to find something positive in the darkness of the storm called ‘breast cancer’. Her story describes how foot reflexology can become a valuable tool in the process of dealing with breast cancer.
One of what she calls her Silver Lining, concerned the incorporation of complementary and alternative treatments to augment her conventional interventions (surgery, chemotherapy & radiation).
And guess what? Reflexology is one of the treatments that she found most valuable!
Hollye Harrington Jacobs describes:
“I must admit that I’ve had reflexology in the past and was not terribly impressed or impacted by it. During past treatments, my mind inevitably wandered — and not to philosophical or life-changing topics. More like, “Ho-hum. What’s for lunch today? I’m too nauseous for food. Why am I laying on this table and not hiking? Perhaps I should have scheduled a mani/pedi instead. Buzz (our dog) sure is a loud snorer.” Those type of non-linear, nonsensical things.
However, now I’m in a slightly — actually a completely — different place in my life and am totally focused on well, focusing. Combine this new motivation with the fact that my reflexology therapist happens to be my Pilates instructor and masseuse. She is a rock star when it comes to massage and Pilates, which means that I had complete faith in the potential of a new and great reflexology experience.”
