My honest note to hospital staff changed everything—combining healing for body and mind

Four years after my first breast cancer diagnosis, I received a call from the breast care centre. They had found some abnormal cells in my other breast in a recent scan. My heart sank. I couldn’t face going through yet more treatment. But then I did something that medical staff later told me had never been done before and just wrote down my feelings in a short note. The result took me by surprise.Shadow of my former selfFor years before my cancer diagnosis, I had worked and published research as a movement psychotherapist in a hospice running an expressive movement therapy group. It was there that I discovered how illness affects our sense of identity and mental health. I remember one lady whose lost mobility meant she couldn’t buy food and cook, a fundamental part of who she was. And a man with arthritis who was grieving the loss of…
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