Cancer Thriver™ Transformative Coaching for Cancer Patients
When cancer changes everything, you can still write your story.
Healing is possible. Thriving is your birthright.
Reclaim control of your healing journey through evidence-based emotional support and practical tools that complement medical treatment. Our trauma-informed coaching helps you transform fear into empowerment, navigate complex decisions with confidence, and maintain your identity beyond ‘cancer patient.’ Clients report improved resilience, reduced anxiety, and a renewed sense of possibility — even during treatment.
Cancer Thriver™ Transformative Coaching for Cancer Patients
When cancer changes everything, you can still write your story.
Healing is possible. Thriving is your birthright.
Reclaim control of your healing journey through evidence-based emotional support and practical tools that complement medical treatment. Our trauma-informed coaching helps you transform fear into empowerment, navigate complex decisions with confidence, and maintain your identity beyond ‘cancer patient.’ Clients report improved resilience, reduced anxiety, and a renewed sense of possibility — even during treatment.
Cancer Coaching: From Diagnosis to Transformation
Certified Cancer Journey Specialist & breast cancer thriver, combining evidence-based coaching with lived experience. Facilitator for Cancer Support Community SF Bay Area. Creator of the Cancer Thriver™ Method.
After 30 years in corporate life, I never expected to become a cancer coach. Then, just eight months after earning my coaching certification, I received an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis that changed everything.
Suddenly, what I’d been teaching others about intuitive wisdom and conscious creation became my lifeline. Through chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, I leaned into these powerful tools and turned to my own coach for guidance.
Because even coaches need coaches during life’s biggest challenges.
When overwhelming fear would take over at 3 AM, the breathing techniques and mindset practices my coach reminded me to use became my sanctuary. Those same evidence-based practices now form the foundation of what I share with my clients.
Why Cancer Patients Need Specialized Coaching Support
Even the most resilient and resourceful people need structured support when facing cancer. You may be strong. You may be brilliant. But when you’re in the storm, clarity doesn’t come easily.
A framework of support makes all the difference in your healing journey.
I know — because I’ve been there. Even as a certified coach, I couldn’t access the tools I knew in theory when facing my own diagnosis. I was too close to the pain. My coach reminded me of what I had available — tools that helped me:
Navigate complex medical decisions with confidence
Transform overwhelming fear into manageable concern
Maintain my identity beyond “cancer patient”
Align my mind and body for optimal healing
One client told me, “Before coaching with Edna, cancer was consuming my identity. Now I see it as just one chapter in my larger story.”
Coaching creates the space to process emotions, reframe limiting beliefs, and make choices from clarity rather than fear — exactly when you need this support most.
The Cancer Thriver™ Approach: Whole Person Healing
My approach combines trauma-informed coaching techniques with the Living Your Intuitive Genius™ framework — creating a foundation for both physical recovery and personal transformation.
Beyond medical treatment, I’ll guide you through evidence-based complementary approaches that support your body’s natural healing processes. You’ll learn practical self-care strategies that feel doable even during treatment.
Together, we’ll focus on:
Trusting your intuition when making confident treatment decisions
Mastering emotional regulation with techniques that work even in hospital settings
Creating nurturing daily routines that support healing without overwhelm
Reconnecting to finding possibility amidst uncertainty
Free Science Based Webinar: 3 Tools for Whole Person Cancer Healing
Watch This Free 20-Minute Cancer Healing Training
In this evidence-based webinar, I share the three-part approach that transformed my cancer journey from overwhelming fear to empowered healing — addressing mind, body, and spirit.
You’ll learn practical tools for:
MIND: Rewiring thought patterns that trigger stress responses and compromise cancer healing
BODY: Key nutrients and physical practices that support your body during cancer treatment
SPIRIT: Reconnecting to your whole self beyond the diagnosis — cancer is an episode, not your life story
MEDICAL VALIDATION: “Your bloodwork is better today than when you first started.” After 16 rounds of rigorous chemotherapy over 5.5 months, my nurse was shocked to see my bloodwork showing I was healthier than before treatment began. These are the exact techniques that supported my body’s resilience.
Start using these science-backed approaches immediately alongside your medical cancer treatment.
“Cancer treatment focuses on the disease. These tools focus on YOU — the whole person who’s experiencing it. When I implemented these practices, my doctors noticed the difference in my resilience.”
– Edna Castillo
Cancer Coaching Programs
Cancer Thrivers’ Launchpad
Stabilize your spirit. Strengthen your mindset. Begin your healing journey.
This 6-month coaching foundation provides emotional steadiness and empowered thinking — whether you’re in active treatment or transitioning to life after cancer.
Includes:
4-week intensive: Standing Firm While Your World is Shaking
90-Day DreamBuilder® program for renewed purpose
Weekly 1:1 coaching with tools customized for your specific diagnosis and treatment plan
The Cancer Thriver™ Method™
Transform through cancer, not just survive it.
This yearlong experience includes the Thriver’s Launchpad plus extended cancer coaching and community support. Together, we focus on creating your next chapter with clarity and purpose.
Includes:
Complete Thriver’s Launchpad program
Extended coaching (group or private options)
Advanced practices in visioning and emotional mastery
Life redesign guidance that transforms ‘surviving cancer’ into ‘thriving because of what cancer taught you
Ready to Reclaim Your Cancer Journey?
During our 45-minute conversation, we’ll explore:
Where you are now in your cancer journey
What specific support would make the biggest difference
A clear next step toward thriving, not just surviving
This conversation is about possibilities, not pressure. I’ve been where you are, and I understand the importance of finding the right support.
“Takes just 2 minutes to schedule. Sessions are typically available within one week.”
What Cancer Patients Say About Our Work
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Not Ready for Cancer Coaching Yet?
You’re still welcome in our healing community.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed, in treatment, or gathering information — there’s support for you at every stage.
Join the Thriver’s Circle
Receive compassionate resources that meet you exactly where you are:
Weekly Courage Notes – Mindset tools specifically for cancer patients
Healing Resources Library – Guided meditations and journaling prompts
Community Connection – Invitations to free virtual support circles
Early Access – First notice of special events and limited offerings
In the SF Bay Area? Check below to receive updates about local in-person cancer support events and free resources.
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Your Cancer Journey, Your Pace
Many in our Thriver’s Circle begin with free resources — and explore one-on-one coaching when they’re ready.
There’s no wrong path forward, only the one that feels right for you.
95% of discovery session participants report feeling ‘more hopeful’ afterward, regardless of whether they continue with coaching.