Self-Care ~ Breast Care

A 5-week Mind-Body Breakthrough Approach
to Preventing and Healing Breast Cancer

In this 5-week retreat you will be invited to enhance overall your health and wellness

with a focus on breast health and support. Through exploring the relationships  between

self-care, self-nurturing and breast health following the Chinese 5 elements  system, energy 

anatomy and mind-body psychotherapy, you are invited to be an active participant in taking care in

releasingfear, supportingimmune health, balancing emotional, mental and spiritual health.

Is this you?
Are you afraid of being diagnosed with breast cancer because of the genetics in your family?
Do you feel powerless and confused about what to do next, if you have been diagnosed with breast cancer?
Are you ready to move beyond “victimhood”, take charge of your health and want to implement a solution based approach?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions~ this upcoming

5 week retreat IS for YOU!


  • If you are ready to embrace change on all levels, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually- this IS for YOU!
  • If you want to say YES to LIFE and make empowered choices no matter what the reality you currently live- even after a doomed diagnosis- this IS for YOU!
  • If you are ready to take action following a mind/body health plan that will enhance your overall health and vitality, this IS for YOU!

 

 A Breast cancer diagnosis does not have to be your faith- even if it has

been in your family history and genes!

Nor

Does it have to be the end of your life, if you have been diagnosed with it!

Join these

2 Women who know something about breast cancer

Dr. Melissa Laborsky MD
&
Chantal Leven, LCSW, CPCC

Melissa’s mother survived a breast cancer diagnosis.

Chantal Leven is the survivor of 2 breast cancer diagnoses.

Join this 5 week journey into enhancing breast health
using mind-body modalities.

October 20th-November 17
10:30am-12pm EDT
Virtual Retreat via Zoom

Week 1

  • Process Your Health and Self-Care Breast assessment
  • Prepare yourself for the Journey by Facing Fear Fearlessly
  • Get an overview of the Chinese 5 element system in relation to health in general and more specifically breast health.
  • Survey the Energy Anatomy Map and make the link between trauma and the energetic disruption that cause physical, emotional, mental and spiritual diseases.
  • Explore the concept of Self-leadership and how to engage your “Wiser Self” as a guide to your healing journey.
Week 2

  • Connect this meridian system with your ability to balance giving and receiving and “digesting” life events.
  • Explore the root chakra and ways to ground yourself into the moment.
  • Explore the relationship between “earth and sky” and your personal connection to spirit.

TAKE AWAYS

  • Connect to your Inner Wisdom as a way to guide your personal health journey.
  • Practice basic QiGong movements that you can integrate as part of a daily practice.
  • Explore your mind-body connection through a guided body dialogue.
Week 3

  • Explore the kidney-bladder meridian systems; how they hold our “DNA inheritance”;and how to “turn off” the breast cancer gene.
  • Explore the energy anatomy of the sacral chakra and how withheld emotions create energy blocks that can translate into illness.
  • Learn the tools to emotionally to disengage the stress response when you find yourself into the “fight-flight-freeze” response.

TAKE AWAYS

  • Tap into QiGong Practices to reinforce our life force/vitality and create a harmonious internal environment to support the healing process.
  • Gain to the tools to process emotionally and integrate “unprocessed” emotions by creating a safe internal environment.
Week 4

  • Gain an overview of the liver/gallbladder meridian system and how they affect our hormonal balance/imbalances.
  • Explore the relationship between these meridians and the feelings associated with them; unresolved anger/resentment, trauma/stress and how the liver “energy” will stagnate, connection between the liver as the “child” of the kidney meridian.
  • Tap into the 3rd chakra energy and Willpower.
  • Expression of “true self” and putting things in motion, taking action with visible manifestation.
  • Learn to balance universal and individual will by engaging your actions inspired from within.

TAKE AWAYS

  • Tap into a QiGong Practice to reinforce your liver/gallbladder meridian system and create a harmonious internal environment to support your hormonal balance.
  • Explore the concept of boundaries- learning to say NO where you leak energy and say YES to what feeds your heart and soul.
    Eliminate the “drains” out of your life.
Week 5

  • Connect to the Heart Chakra and learn how to balance giving/over giving and receiving (or blocking the flow).
  • Reclaim your power by practicing loving kindness and compassion towards your past “wounds” in order to rebalance your heart center in the “here and now”.
  • Tap into the spiritual message from the Heart Center and the hidden message in breast cancer.
  • Explore the connection between breast, self-love, self-nurturing, and getting “fed”.

TAKE AWAYS

  • Integrate all the meridian systems into a practical plan to live a balance life.
  • Practice healing yourself through the chakra and clear your emotional blocks as a way to sustain health and vitality.

Meet Chantal

Chantal was on the forefront of the coaching movement when coaching was budding in the 90’s. She attended the first training program offered by the Coaches Training Institute and got certified in 1997 as a personal and professional coach and immediately began building her coaching practice, building it up to twenty clients per week without any prior business knowledge.
One of her clients offered her a job as a training and development director, where she built from the ground up an entire training and development department over a period of six years.
Within that same period of time, she started a mind/body healing center with her husband and stepped fully into managing and growing that business two years after start-up. That business has now been in operation for thirteen years.
Along the way, she suffered from lyme disease, Epstein Barr, burnout and breast cancer. She began digging deeper, wanting to understand why despite her best health efforts, she kept getting sick.

She discovered that an over exposure to stress and trauma affects the immune system. In 2012, she came across the ACE study (Adverse Childhood Experiences) which opened her eyes on the impact that trauma has over a lifetime on people’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being.

She enrolled in a mind/body psychotherapy healing program in West Hartford Connecticut. She had already studied massage and bodywork after college and learned about mind/body healing modalities along with attending a two year program in movement and expressive art therapy. She eventually enrolled in the Masters in Social Work degree at Smith College in 2017.

Chantal is an entrepreneur at heart and deeply believe in people’s ability to heal. It is now obvious to her that healing and growing a business is an inside job. What blocks healing and being successful in business comes from the same places inside, deeply held belief and emotions about unworthiness and lack of belonging created at an early age.

It is absolutely possible to thrive beyond trauma. In fact, it is imperative that people who have suffered choose to heal in order to not repeat the same patterns from the past. People who choose to heal themselves have gifts to offer the world. They know, because they have walked that path, how to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes and it is to these people, who are passionate, empowered, committed to living a life on purpose, who believe in making this world a better place that she speaks to, coaches and support in building their business.

Meet Melissa

Melissa’s gateway to healing began with traditional medicine. She graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2003 and completed residency in Family Medicine in 2006. In 2007 she had a Mind-Body awakening during a time of intense stress. As she describes it, “I could no longer ignore the connection between intense emotions and my physical symptoms which included migraines, insomnia, digestive issues, PMS, and beyond”.

She expanded my personal and professional journey through the study of Mind-Body Medicine in 2008. There is a Chinese proverb, “when the student is ready, the master appears.” In 2009, She was introduced to the work of Grand Master Nan Lu through the Tao of Medical Qigong. As she recalled“I still can feel the moment when on day one of my training I read the quote “From the Spiritual perspective, there is no disease or illness. There is only undiscovered purpose.”

She went on to continue training with Grand Master Lu through advanced Tao of Medical Qigong, Chinese herbal medicine, Dragon’s Way Qigong, Breast Health Qigong, and Digesting the Universe. In 2012, She completed a one year apprenticeship with Grand Master Lu at his practice, the Tao of Healing in NYC. Grand Master Lu has a specialty in the Chinese energy Medicine approach to understanding, preventing, and healing the root cause of Breast Cancer.

Ancient traditions have long recognized and modern science has confirmed that EVERYTHING is energy. Modern science has also discovered that energy and mass are interchangeable, therefore all breast conditions such as calcifications, cysts, and tumors can be viewed as energy transformed into mass. The approach she uses in her practice support creating flow at every level Body, Mind, and Spirit to open our healing power.