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Before the scan
How to prepare your nervous system rather than just your calendar, including a breathing pattern you can use in the waiting room.
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For women who refuse to be sidelined.
You are functioning. Life just does not feel settled yet.
A free guide to what scan anxiety is, and how to move through it with your nervous system rather than against it. Written by an integrative health coach who walks into those appointments too.
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Scan anxiety
It has a name, and it is not a personal failing.
If you have been through cancer treatment, your body has lived through things it did not choose. That memory stays.
Scan anxiety, sometimes called scanxiety, is the heightened fear, physical tension and emotional distress that arrives before, during and after imaging. Racing heart. Shallow breathing. Broken sleep. Thoughts that will not settle.
Research shows it affects a significant number of survivors and that it does not simply resolve with time. It is a recognised response to a high-stakes experience.
The hard part is that it often shows up in the body before the mind registers it. Which is why what helps is not a trick that makes it disappear. It is knowing what to do before, during and after.
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The Scan Anxiety Guide
Free, four pages, and yours to come back to before every appointment. It arrives on the next page, along with a playlist put together for scan days.
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What is inside the guide
Four short sections. Practical, specific, and written to be read the week of an appointment.
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During the scan
Grounding phrases, what to say to the technologist, and how to give your body something steady to hold onto.
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After the scan
The part nobody prepares you for. What helps in the days of waiting, and the signals worth paying attention to.
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Underneath it
Why this was never really about the scan, and how steady support between them changes what each one costs you.
A client story
Diane is a two-time cancer survivor. She came to Shannon exhausted from holding everyone else up, and giving endlessly without replenishing.
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When they began
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By her final session
How she scored this part of her life, out of ten, in her own words.
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I am realizing I have to put my life jacket on first.
Diane
Who wrote this
Hi, I’m Shannon
My own journey has been one of resilience, healing, and transformation. After breast cancer treatment, I experienced the deep loss of identity, strength, and confidence that many women know all too well.
My path has been anything but linear. From serving as a firefighter and EMT, to international work, to rebuilding after illness. Each experience added to a growing toolbox of resilience, strength, and compassion that now guides the way I coach.
I know what it is like to feel lost after a health crisis, and I also know the joy of finding your way back. This guide is part of that, gathered in one place so you do not have to work it out alone.
Integrative Health Coach, IIN
Usui Ryoho Reiki I & II
Former Firefighter & EMT
Reclaim your health. Rediscover your brilliance.
The guide is free, it takes a few minutes to read, and it is yours to keep for the next appointment and the one after that. And sometimes the first step is simply starting the conversation.
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