E66: Protecting Your Mental Health, Guest, Dr. Sanger

Join A Cure in Sight and Dr. Maureen Sanger to discuss protecting your mental health as a patient with ocular melanoma.

A few key points from this episode:

"Switch focus from the what if to what is?"

"Grief is something we tend to."

When in doubt, let it RAIN:
R - Recognize emotions

A - Allowing emotions to be felt/ accepting them as what is

I - Inspect/Investigate your emotions "why am i feeling this way?"”

N - Nurturing yourself - "what do I NEED right now?"

Great books to read:

When Life Gets Hard by Russ Harris

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron 

Maureen Sanger, PhD is a psychologist with Tennessee Oncology providing counseling to cancer patients and survivors. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University and trained at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Prior to joining Tennessee Oncology she was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she worked with the cancer and sickle cell disease programs.

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