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Caregiver Support

CANCER SUCKS - One truth we all can agree on.  

But it doesn’t have to all suck. One of the best parts of cancer was connecting and spending time with the people that love me - so you are definitely one of the most valuable tools to help people live in joy after diagnosis!  

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Here are a few tips to help - but I would encourage you to listen to the podcast Jennie Smith (Stage 4 recurrent triple negative breast cancer thriver) and I recorded to help you really know what you can do to help.  We both battled from a dark place and built a plan that both addressed the root causes of why cancer was expressed, healed our body from the inside out, and used conventional treatment to treat cancer cells - but more than that proved that you don’t have anything to worry about until you are out of options!

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The first "rule" - do NOT make the person with cancer help you process your feelings.  You have every right to have big feelings and emotions - but that is for you to process, not to burden them with. 

 

The way you can help them heal the most is to be honest with how you feel about them and what you can specifically do to help. â€‹This doesn’t mean you don’t ever mention it or act weird about it - it means you take your fear and process it without them.

What do you need when you are diagnosed? 
To be able to sleep, rest, live in joy and not feel stressed.  To feel love.  To plan for a future.

It is also helpful if you do research and summarize it for them so they can get the bullet points without having to wade through all of the details (and of course MOJO Health has many fabulous resources already built to help!)  I had the attention span of a gnat when I was diagnosed!  

So let’s break this down into what you really need… at a range of price points (including free!)

Make their life easier to allow them to focus energy on healing! So much of our energy goes to managing the every day needs of life, so you can step in to help them focus on what really matters:

  • Help with meals (but make sure you ask about their dietary needs, use organic produce, etc.)

  • Walk their dog

  • Drive their children to school or practices or invite over for a playdate

  • Do yard work for them, take out their trash, empty the dishwasher, fold laundry, bring in the mail, etc. 

  • Help make appointments: find doctor recommendations, call to make appointments, build a schedule.

  • Build a schedule for medicines and sort pills into a container

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Let them know you are thinking of them - send a song, poem, text, or picture. Help them think about more than just cancer.  

 

​If they are staying at the hospital for an extended stay, it can be very lonely by yourself.  Check in via text, video call, stop by, etc. as often as you help connect them to their real life. Bring pictures, blankets, pillows, pajamas, and flags to decorate their room.

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​Join them for an appointment.  This may mean driving them there, preparing for the doctor visit and brainstorming questions, creating an agenda for the time together, taking notes during the appointment, doing follow up research on what was discussed, and sharing that information with the people they have identified need to know. 

 

Ask them if they have built a strategy. If they haven’t, I wrote a book (MOJO Healing) to teach them how to build a strategy to heal that uses the best of conventional and traditional healing.  That would be a great gift to help them get started on their journey or you could read it and help them craft their strategy.

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Go spend time helping them find their flow.  Bring them to a art museum, concert, go dancing, play games, or whatever they do and have so much fun they lose track of time…. 

 

Remind them that they are a bad ass.  Give them confidence that they are worth the effort and energy to heal.  Talk with them about their strengths.  Whatever they are great at, help them leverage that in their healing journey.  

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Ask if they need something specific to heal.  As an example, mastectomy pillows or seat belt covers or icing tools.  Or maybe a journal.  Or maybe a trampoline (great for lymph expression). 

 

Give them a gift card to help them with their holistic healing strategy.  This could be a visa gift card, to a local health food store, to Whole Foods, etc.  More Joy Health is working to be the "easy button" for patients to source high quality supplements and tools to heal the root causes of disease so a lot of what they will need will be available right there.  We have also built a registry to make it easier to defray the cost of your healing strategy (I had to spend my entire life savings and more to live, and I want to help people avoid the financial devastation I faced) so make sure you click here to see if they have a registry built (or let them know they can build one here!)


If you want to know if a specific food or supplement could be helpful, check out our strategy builder. If they are complaining of a side effect, you can go right here to see options to outmaneuver that particular side effect across diet, lifestyle, supplements, and facilitated healers.  They will likely have to replace a fair number of household cleaning supplies, beauty products, etc. that have toxic chemicals.  Of course our EMF Blocking blanket would be fabulous….. And almost everyone everywhere would benefit from the foundational protocol we built with Oscar to build up your core health. 

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Help them think beyond the diagnosis.

Talk about a dream vacation, going back to school, writing a book, etc.  Help their brain BELIEVE that things can only get better and they will heal.  Maybe even give them a good fiction book so they can escape to another time or comedy movies help them laugh.  Or a lottery ticket! 

 

Share my podcast MOJO RISING to make sure they are as educated and empowered as they possibly can be!  I have interviewed experts in many different areas to help people make cancer suck less!  

 

Help them focus on gratitude and what they should be grateful for…. Journal, gratitude jar, devotional, etc.  

 

Think about if there is something you can do for their core caregiver(s) to make their lives easier. Ask them how they are doing and help them process their fear and anxiety without the person diagnosed around.   

 

Last but not least, remind them to MAXIMIZE JOY and live their best life. Print pictures of your favorite moments and people, help to decorate their house, send videos of awesome moments in life, and help them get outside and ground!  

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Julie Stevens

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Founder of MOJO Health

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Survivor of Stage 4 Colon cancer

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Author of MOJO Healing 

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Host of MOJO Rising... How to Make Cancer Suck Less 

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PS - I had a really hard time sourcing quality supplements and tools to support my journey, let alone spending my life savings on everything I needed to heal, so we built a sister company - More Joy Health - where you can build a registry to help people know what they can do to support you with the highest quality supplements and resources we could find! I hope this can also help you heal!

 

Please note, More Joy Health funds most of MOJO Health Information, so every dollar spent there is helping us continue to operate this amazing non-profit!

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