For the past year I have watched as my friend Kevyn Burger faced down a terrible beast — breast cancer. Many of you know her, too. She was for many years a reporter for WCCO-TV, and now hosts The Kevyn Burger show on weekday mornings on FM 107.1. I asked her to review a new DVD for cancer patients called Visions for Cancer Recovery. In the process she reveals some of the weapons she used to force the beast back into its cave.

The DVD was produced by Mary Hallman, a Minneapolis nurse who is also a cancer survivor. (You can find out more about it here.)

Kevyn Burger: Her blog is at http://gabster.fm1071.com/fm107_kevyn/blog/

When I was a little girl, I relished visiting my grandmother–right until bedtime. My beloved Oma understood that I felt lonely and frightened in that unfamiliar bed. She used to tuck me in and pat me on the back while I slipped into slumber, murmuring all the while to “just let go…to let my body feel like … it’s just an old washrag.”
That was my first encounter with creative visualization.

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