CANCER AND COACHING: LESSONS IN SELF-KINDNESS AND LEARNING TO EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN

Claire Slade, a WWC coachee and former senior partner in a GP practice, has written a blog about trying to come to terms with her bowel cancer diagnosis.

As a 40 year old, who has just retired from her GP partnership, you would be forgiven for thinking I might not be the best advert for coaching through Working With Cancer.  However, you couldn’t be further from the truth. 

In November 2019, at the end of a year of investigations for anaemia, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer.  I was a 39 year old GP partner, married, with 3 young children.   Life had, until that point, been extremely full, busy, and fun, but I had the work-life balance thing sussed.  I…was…superwoman.  

The full article can be found here