7 Breakthrough Lessons on Emotional Healing and Cancer Recovery You Need to Know
When it comes to cancer recovery, we often think about treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. But what if healing your emotions is just as important as healing your body?
In a recent episode of the Believe Big Podcast, Ivelisse Page sat down with Dr. Katie Deming, a former radiation oncologist who left her thriving medical career to explore how emotional trauma impacts cancer and chronic illness. Here’s what we learned:
- Emotional Healing is Critical for True Wholeness
Dr. Deming explains that healing means restoring wholeness—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Many cancer patients focus on physical treatments but neglect emotional trauma, which can disrupt the body’s ability to fully heal.
- The “River” Parable That Changed Everything
Dr. Deming shares how a story about villagers constantly rescuing people from a river made her realize the flaw in modern oncology. Instead of just pulling people from the “river” of disease, we must go upstream and ask: why are so many people falling in?
- The ACE Study’s Startling Findings
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study revealed that unresolved childhood trauma dramatically increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and more. Trauma creates biological stress patterns that, if unaddressed, can contribute to chronic illness.
- Emotions Have Frequencies That Affect the Body
According to Dr. Deming, emotions like fear, anger, and shame operate at low frequencies that contribute to illness. Positive emotions like love and joy resonate at higher frequencies that promote healing. Emotional detox is just as crucial as physical detox!
- You Don’t Have to Relive Trauma to Heal
One of the biggest misconceptions? That you must “dig up” the past through talk therapy. Dr. Deming highlights tools like PSYCH-K, tapping, and emotion code that help release trauma from the subconscious—without retraumatization.
- Healing Isn’t Linear—It’s Layered Like an Onion
Dr. Deming reminds patients that emotions and trauma often return in waves. Healing is a lifelong journey of peeling back emotional layers with compassion, not self-judgment.
- Healing is Always Possible
No matter your diagnosis, emotional wounds, or past, healing is always possible. Dr. Deming urges us to remember that hope and wholeness are available at any stage of life.
Are you ready to explore emotional healing as part of your wellness journey? Tune in below to the full episode for more!
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Learn more about Dr. Katie Deming at
Suggested Resources
- Dr. Deming’s Podcast: Born To Heal
- Sunlighten Saunas
- Health Mate – Enrich 2 Sauna
- ACE – Adverse Childhood Experience study
- BOOK: Radical Hope by Dr. Kelly Turner
- BOOK: Power vs. Force by David Hawkins
- BOOK: Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping
- Uriel Pharmacy website
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