by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Mar 20, 2022 | Cancer, Caring, Currency of Empathy, Empathy, Empathy for Self, Empathy with Our Bodies, Fun, Healing, Healing from Cancer
Sharon and Jackie enjoying Istanbul, March 2022 While living in Istanbul, I’m learning Turkish. It’s not an easy language to pick up, but it’s a fun, rhythmic, and poetic language to practice. It’s also succinct. A few words say a lot. People appreciate that I try and...
by Jackie Acho | May 28, 2021 | Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Currency of Empathy, Empathy in Medicine, Empathy in Research, Ovarian Cancer
Worn-out jeans are comfortable. Worn-out genes are not. We wonder why cancer is a raging epidemic. It’s not because of “cancer genes” or living longer. Cancer is the leading cause of death world-wide because our bodies are worn-out. I’ve learned this the hard way,...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Apr 23, 2020 | Attachment, Cancer, Culture of Empathy, Currency of Empathy, Yoga
“The root of suffering is attachment.” Buddha. It’s cold being bald. Come summer, it might be fun to feel the cool breeze, dunk in the ocean whether it’s hair washing day or not, or take a ride in a convertible without hair whipping my face. For now, I’m cold. I never...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Apr 13, 2020 | Cancer, Coronavirus, Currency of Empathy, Empathy, Empathy as Healing Medicine
I have a front-row seat to empathy these days, and not only in the context of a global pandemic. On February 20, 2020, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. On March 2, I had extensive surgery. By the time I came home from the hospital, the country had begun going into...