Do you feel like you've landed in the middle of
"Now What?"
Cancer changes everything. Whether you're newly diagnosed, navigating treatment, facing recurrence, or simply searching for ways to feel like yourself again, you're not alone.
Many women find themselves overwhelmed, uncertain, and wondering:
What else can I do to support my healing?
From my personal experience, there is a lot you can do.
I created NOURISH: A Whole-Person Healing Intensive to offer personalized one-on-one guidance and coaching that helps you create the conditions for healing, resilience, and hope through a mind, body, emotion, and spirit approach.
Together, we'll explore practical, evidence-informed strategies that support healing for all of you, not just the diagnosis.
I am here to help you move from feeling powerless to becoming an active participant in your well-being, restoring a sense of agency and helping you navigate cancer (or life after) with greater confidence, clarity, and hope.
You don't have to navigate this alone.
Hi, I'm Cynthia. A cancer diagnosis can leave you feeling like you've been dropped into unfamiliar territory without a map. It can shake your sense of stability, identity, and direction.
Whether you are still in shock from hearing "you have cancer," are in the heavy center of treatment, or standing in its aftermath, wondering what comes after, this journey can feel overwhelming and uncertain.
As a two-time cancer survivor and certified wellness and cancer coach trained in the Radical Remission approach, I understand both the medical journey and the personal questions that follow a diagnosis. I provide cancer guidance and survivorship support for women navigating the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and life changes that follow diagnosis.
I know this firsthand, having been diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer in 2014 and again with a recurrent, metastatic diagnosis in 2023. Cancer affects the whole of us. When my own world was turned upside down, I realized that medical treatment doesn't help with the "Now What?"—the physical, mental, and emotional toll—at every stage of the journey.
Maybe that's where you are, too—searching for guidance on the emotional, physical, and lifestyle changes that follow diagnosis and can support you and your treatment. Like me, I have found that many are also looking for ways to support their healing naturally alongside medical care, using nutrition, stress reduction, and mind-body practices.
I combine my lived experience with my training (Certified Life Coach, Health Coach, Radical Remission Cancer Coach, trained through the work of Dr. Kelly A. Turner, and Functional Nutrition and Nervous System training) to help you holistically navigate your own path. I use the Radical Remission 10 Healing Factors as our guide, but I bring the full toolkit.
You don't have to figure this out on your own.
"I believe that cancer is a word, not a sentence. I believe you are not a statistic or a diagnosis. Most of all, I believe that our bodies are incredible and we all have the capacity to heal. "
"Healing is not about forcing a flower to bloom. It's about creating the conditions in which it can."
– Cynthia Dano
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What Is NOURISH?
I chose the name NOURISH intentionally. When most people hear the word nourish, they think of food. And while nutrition is certainly an important part of healing, I believe true healing requires much more.
Healing asks us to nourish the whole person. Just as a garden needs water, sunlight, healthy soil, and care to flourish, healing requires nourishment in many forms.
The mind needs nourishment through hope, emotional support, stress reduction, and new ways of thinking.
The body needs nourishment through rest, movement, sleep, nutrition, and practices that support its natural ability to repair and restore.
The spirit needs nourishment through meaning, connection, purpose, joy, nature, and the things that remind us why life matters.
When one area is depleted, it often affects the others. When all are supported, we create a stronger foundation for healing, resilience, and well-being.
We are creating the conditions for healing and hope.
That is the philosophy behind NOURISH.
Because healing is about more than treating a diagnosis.
It's about supporting the whole person.
What I believe about healing
The Nourish Healing Intensive Guiding Principles
🌿 Cancer is Complex
There is rarely a single cause and/or a single solution. Healing requires a whole-person approach.
🌿 Every Journey is Unique
No two diagnoses, bodies, or healing paths are or should be exactly alike.
🌿 Healing and Curing Are Not the Same
Health is not the absence of disease. It is much greater than that. We can be free of disease and not healthy. We can have disease and still be at peace. While we cannot control every outcome, we can create conditions that support healing, resilience, and quality of life.
🌿 Healing is an Inside Job
Your body is a magnificent healer. My role is to provide guidance, support, education, and accountability along the way.
🌿 Mind, Body, and Spirit Form an Interconnected Ecosystem
Health and healing are influenced by what is happening throughout the entire ecosystem. The mind, body, and spirit are beautifully connected, each influencing the others in profound ways.
🌿 Hope Grows with Participation
Healing and hope grow in the same garden. As you work on healing, hope grows right beside.
🌿 Small Changes Create Powerful Ripples
True healing and transformation rarely come from one giant leap. It comes from consistent steps taken over time.
🌿 Healing is not linear; it is a spectrum
Healing is rarely a straight path. There are seasons of progress, setbacks, growth, rest, and renewal. The goal is not perfection, but gently nourishing depleted spaces back to life.
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🌿 Ownership is Empowering
Healing asks us to look honestly at the choices, habits, stressors, and circumstances that may have influenced our health. We can take responsibility for what we do next without blaming or shaming ourselves for where we've been. Ownership creates possibility. Shame keeps us stuck.
The NOURISH | Healing Intensive
NOURISH is a personalized one-on-one coaching experience designed to support healing of the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. Because every woman, diagnosis, and healing journey is unique, our work together is tailored to your specific needs, goals, challenges, and season of life.
Together, we may explore:
Nervous System Regulation
The body heals when it feels safe to do so. We concentrate on creating greater calm, resilience, and emotional stability through stress reduction, nervous system support, and practical regulation tools.
Emotional Healing
Navigating fear, uncertainty, grief, identity shifts, and the emotional impact of cancer.
Nourishment Beyond Nutrition
Exploring the many ways we nourish ourselves through food, relationships, boundaries, information, environment, and self-care.
Sleep, Rest, and Restoration
Supporting the body's natural repair processes through restorative practices and healthy rhythms.
Inner Ecology
Understanding the role of the microbiome, inflammation, lifestyle factors, and the internal ecosystem that influences health and healing.
Movement and Energy
Finding sustainable ways to support strength, vitality, and overall well-being.
Purpose, Meaning, and Hope
Reconnecting with what brings joy, purpose, connection, and a sense of possibility moving forward.
Each session is guided by where you are, what you need most, and the next step that feels meaningful and supportive on your path.
Is This For You?
You may find coaching and guidance especially supportive if you:
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want to be an active participant in your healing
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have recently been diagnosed with cancer and feel overwhelmed or uncertain about what comes next
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are in treatment and looking for emotional and practical tools to navigate the journey
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have completed treatment but feel like life hasn't quite returned to normal
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want to support your healing through holistic and natural lifestyle, stress reduction, and mind-body practices
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are questioning priorities, meaning, identity, or direction after cancer
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feel a desire to live more intentionally and with fewer regrets
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want to feel like you are more than being your diagnosis
You don't have to have everything figured out before reaching out. No pressure. Just a supportive conversation to explore where you are and what might help.
WORDS FROM
Those I've walked with...
"I consider Cynthia Dano a blessing in my life. I am an ovarian cancer survivor, alive after a diagnosis in 2020.
Going through the life challenges of a cancer diagnosis, I confronted many issues I needed help with. What makes Cynthia so unique is her double certification, not only as a Radical Remission coach, dedicated to helping people access self-knowledge about the ten key factors of Radical Remissions, but also as a life coach. She has the ability to use whatever skill set will assist the client’s goals and desires. She can focus only on the ten key factors or expand to a life coaching approach. These combined skills suited me perfectly.
Cynthia has the ability to listen well and be aware of key moments, words or experiences that I used that pointed to areas of my life and feelings that needed deeper exploration. Many, I discovered, no longer served me well.
I highly recommend Cynthia Dano as a coach from the perspective of someone who has gained so much from our relationship."
-Katherine W.
CANCER SURVIVOR
Compassionate and comprehensive cancer coaching for women seeking guidance during treatment, recovery, and natural support for life after cancer.