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, Ph.D. | Mar 4, 2022 | Cancer, Empathy, Empathy in Medicine, Empathy with Our Bodies, Entrepreneurship, Healing from Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
Jackie and John, Istanbul, March 2, 2022 (2nd anniversary of ovarian cancer surgery) Maybe. At the beginning, those of us with difficult cancer diagnoses hope to do the unlikely: survive the treatment, ring the bell, and be in “remission.” We imagine all the ways and...
by Jackie Acho | Apr 6, 2021 | Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Empathy in Medicine, Empathy in Research, Empathy with Our Bodies
illustrations by Mark Domann “I imagine you sitting still in the face of a fire-breathing dragon. Hair rustled back with the force of all the air. Knowing you are perfect. You are safe. You have a deep knowing that is accurate. It is not a dragon.” – Michelle...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Jun 30, 2020 | #CurrencyOfEmpathy, Cancer Prevention, Empathy as Healing Medicine, Empathy with Our Bodies, Energy Healing, Healing from Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Toxicity, Women in Science
How are you today? “I am well in all the ways that really matter.” – Akua (aka Mary Alice) Saunders MEd, MSN, CNS My body knows why I have ovarian cancer. I’m finally listening, so now I do too. I didn’t get the answers from Western medicine, functional medicine, or...