Rediscovering Your true north after breast cancer

As a breast cancer survivor, you've been through an incredible journey. Now that treatment is behind you, it's time to focus on what truly matters. This guide will help you reconnect with your core values and rediscover your authentic self after breast cancer.

Understanding Core Values

Our core values are the fundamental beliefs that guide our decisions and shape our lives. They're the principles that guide your decisions, shape your character, and give your life meaning. For breast cancer survivors, these values can serve as a compass during the recovery process.

Common values can include:

• Family and relationships

Core values examples

• Health and well-being

• Personal growth

• Giving back to the community

• Living life to the fullest

• Showing kindness to others

How Cancer Treatment Affects Our Connection to Values

Understandably, breast cancer and its treatment can temporarily disconnect us from our core values. After diagnosis, we put our heads down and focus on getting through the treatment. We usually need to put our personal goals and aspirations on hold while we get through this. And once we get through the other side, survivors often say they have experienced shifts in their priorities and perspectives.

The Importance of Values in Breast Cancer Recovery

Reconnecting with your core values can:

• Provide direction and purpose post-treatment

• Improve mental and emotional well-being

• Enhance relationships and social connections

• Boost overall life satisfaction

So how do we discover our values?

If you need a bit of help rediscovering your values, there's some fab tools online to help, such as https://personalvalu.es/ or https://www.personality-quizzes.com/via-character-strengths-test

Exercises to Reconnect with your core values after breast cancer.

Or you could have a bit of fun with these activities:

1. The Time Machine Test: Imagine you could travel back in time and give your pre-cancer self some advice. What would you say? The wisdom you'd share often reflects your deepest values.

2. The Desert Island Game: If you were stranded on a desert island (with unlimited sunscreen, of course), what three items would you bring? Your choices can reveal what you truly need and want.

3. The Superhero Swap: If you could trade places with any superhero for a day, who would it be and why? Your pick might highlight values like courage, justice, or protecting others.
   

Top tips for living your values

1. Create a Values Vision Board: Visualize your core values with images and words

2. Implement a Values Check-In: Align daily decisions with your values

3. Set Value-Based Goals: Create objectives that reflect what's truly important to you

4. Build a Support Network: Surround yourself with people who respect your values

5. Practice Gratitude: Acknowledge moments when you honour your values

Remember, you've already demonstrated incredible strength. Now it's time to channel that strength into living a life that truly reflects your values. Embrace this opportunity for self-discovery and growth!

Are you ready to align your life with your core values after breast cancer? As the beyond breast cancer coach, I'm here to guide you through this transformative process.

Contact me today to start your journey towards a more authentic and fulfilling life post-cancer.