E66: Protecting Your Mental Health, Guest, Dr. Sanger

The Eye Believe Podcast · May 7, 2023 · 59m

Join A Cure in Sight and Dr. Maureen Sanger to discuss protecting your mental health as a patient with ocular melanoma.

A few key points from this episode:

"Switch focus from the what if to what is?"

"Grief is something we tend to."

When in doubt, let it RAIN:

R - Recognize emotions

A - Allowing emotions to be felt/ accepting them as what is

I - Inspect/Investigate your emotions "why am i feeling this way?"”

N - Nurturing yourself - "what do I NEED right now?"

Great books to read:

When Life Gets Hard by Russ Harris

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

Maureen Sanger, PhD is a psychologist…