I’m a Person Just Like You

I’ve felt the fear, experienced the biopsies, nausea, blood draws, lost sleep and endless medications. I’ve hung anxiously in the limbo land between tests and results, spent hours in waiting and treatment rooms and lived through the sickness, headaches, dizzy spells, rigors, night sweats and chills. I know what it’s like to be so frightened you can hardly speak, so sore you can hardly move and so anxious that you physically shake -- to feel like you’ve lost control of your life and to wonder if you’ll ever, ever get it back. After treatment, I was so weak that my biggest challenge was being able to stand in the shower long enough to wash – and I had stood on the top of Mount Everest! My family and friends visited, called, sent cards and wrote letters and emails, but basically I marked time.

During this challenging period, which lasted about five years, I could have benefited greatly from the guidance of someone who’d been there before me, who had climbed back from cancer and who had emerged triumphant – in other words, a skilled and experienced coach. Sadly, I was unable to find such a person. So, I kept groping my way along doing everything in my power to stay alive and slowly, through trial and error (way too much error) I clawed my way back.

Climb Back from Cancer Coach Photo: Steve Baylin

Giving You the Tools You Need to Triumph
Now I’ve climbed back – completely. I’ve been cancer-free for more than eight years and I’m officially medically cured. I am as energetic, strong, fit and healthy as before my illness. And I want to help you survive to thrive too – a lot faster and better than I did. I don’t want you to struggle like I did. I want you to return to your life with less effort in less time. I want to give you the tools you need to triumph without me.

Training Your Brain
Rather than teaching you how to fight, I’ll show you how to train your brain to prevail. I believe in the power of your mind, the strength of your body and the almost limitless capacity of your spirit to rise to the challenge of change. These qualities helped get me through three Everest expeditions, safely to and from the top of the world and an even longer and harder climb back from cancer.

I Want You to Climb Back Too