Why Functional Oncology Coaching?

Michael Reid a Functional Oncology and Certified Integrative Health Coach is an experienced guide offering integrative strategies complementary to your cancer diagnosis and treatment therapies.

You might ask your personal Oncologist, do you really need a Functional Oncology Coach? And just like building a winning team, when you've got a team of dedicated pro's with different disciplines to help enhance and light the way, feeling better, stronger, and more empowered becomes a lot easier. That is why your wellness team should be top priority in affecting your chances of attaining and sustaining optimal wellness with the potential of reversing dis-ease after a cancer diagnosis.  

Both insured and uninsured consumers are feeling the squeeze of a pandemic and health care costs, and I would hope that nobody wants to be sick. In these times many are feeling in between sick and being well, so the question of who gets sick and who stays well is far more complex. As life expectancy continues to increase, and odds of suffering from a chronic illness other than cancer continues to also increase, everyone could use more optimal support in preparation and guidance for remission and reversal of dis-ease. This can be done by serving health care consumers not necessarily better but differently. And why? 

So just what are the basic principles of Functional Medicine? Functional Medicine can be thought of as "root-cause medicine". An investigative, science based personalized approach that assesses and treats the underlying causes of chronic-disease through individually tailored therapies to restore optimal health and improve function through correcting deficiencies and imbalances. Being dependent upon immunocompromised pharmaceuticals during and after a dis-ease pandemic may 'not' be in our 'best' interest for the long-term.   

The first thing many people do when they are diagnosed with a chronic dis-ease is rush home and Google. How trustworthy are your sources of information? How well do you trust your personal judgement? Could you Google this on your own? Sure you can, but due to complexity of shifting pandemics, mis-informed medical advice. Information that is contending with sorting out the daily stressors of the body's anxiety, dis-ease, depression and exhaustion and not to mention the trillions of other daily functions it has to perform. Typically you'll find a lot of finger pointing from both sides of the fence that could be sabotaging your efforts in moving towards recovery and remission. And perhaps worst and most importantly bring on information overload that can simply shut down many patients/clients. 

You need someone calm, organized, open, and smart enough to wade through and filter all the contradictory information. Michael is 'not' someone who believes that there is only one modality in the healthcare expert umbrella of medical science and practitioners who are fully capable at giving the sound support that is needed. But if anyone, it has to be someone who is capable at providing emotional, practical, coaching, informational, decision making, and intuitive support. 

A favorite quote of Michael's in celebrating his wife as a nurse, "As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel" - Maya Angelou 

The personal experience of just talking to someone you can count on for emotional comfort, to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space to express your feelings can now be much richer, and much more rewarding. You are more empowered and confident that you have leveraged support in all of your health care systems to build an entire team of supportive, knowledgeable wellness practitioners and professionals dedicated to furthering your personal health and emotional well-being. A wellness "Dream Team" in taking your health to it's optimal level!

Being an advanced Health Coach involves substantial critical thinking. Michael Reid has been exposed to such a wide variety of information, and will listen to "not" just the symptoms but to the whole person in navigating the world of contradictory disease, health and lifestyle advice to explore what truly works for your unique self. A bridge between conventional medicine and true long-term, root-cause deep functional medicine healing. 

It is possible to search the internet and social media for the 200 plus solutions of a dis-ease, so what do you do now with all the advice and fear based data? What are the boundaries? What proper order? What and when to use? What priority for each unique situation and individual?   

"Even when aware, we lack the Patience, the Education, the Inspiration, and the Empowerment support we need in order to change" 

This is where coaching comes in and Michael Reid is a trained, professional Functional Oncology and Integrative Health Coach that can help you identify and integrate sensible, sustainable life practices to optimize your health, and help guide you in your decision making and raise raise red flags when needed. His personal one on one coaching provides the unique em-path, loving "Silent Strength" perspective of a personal experience and not just more calculated information. Information is wonderful, it can dispel feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. And all practitioners should strive to expand their knowledge base in better understanding, but real change happens through practitioner-patient innate conversation. A relationship of interaction where someone can truly reflect on what new beginnings of change are now a possibility.   

Recovery often means processing different layers of emotions and past life experiences while also managing the present moment and finding new ways at working through recovery. Like pealing layers of an onion, we make progress by pealing those layers but it usually doesn't happen all at once. And the more layers we peal back, the more difficult it can get.  Where are you right now in the process of what needs to get done despite it being harder? 

Healing is a verb and the body is constantly attempting to repair itself. That's what life is. A living being is constantly repairing itself on so many levels against all of the many daily insults to our minds and bodies at a very molecular, cellular and emotional level. So unhealthy aging and dis-ease can happen when the repair process is not keeping up with the damage process. Right now in the majority of our lives, the repair process is not keeping up with the damage process that no one desires or deserves. But fortunately, we live in a time where there are many different paths to preparation in optimally taking care of yourself. 

Are you struggling with finding relief from the emotional and or physical side effects after treatment? When is the last time you felt emotional and physical relief? Rediscover the conversation that could change your life?