Jeannine Walston
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Jeannine Walston is co-founder and Executive Director of EmbodiWorks, a non-profit organization at www.embodiworks.org offering integrative cancer care resources for the whole person. Jeannine has extensive experience in cancer education and advocacy, health care policy, and both conventional and integrative cancer care professionally and personally. Her career includes work in the U.S. Congress, government agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clearinghouse, cancer non-profit organizations, and health care practices. You can follow Jeannine and EmbodiWorks on their mailing list, Facebook and Twitter.

Blog Entries by Jeannine Walston

Healing After My Second Awake Brain Tumor Surgery

Posted January 6, 2012 | 13:02:34 (EST)

The anesthesiologist grabbed my hand as I woke up in the room. As I embraced her touch, my head was locked into metal equipment even when I could move other parts of my body. But I wasn't supposed to. Standing behind me, my neurosurgeon reminded me not to try moving...

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How My Brain Tumor Woke Me Up To Life

Posted August 28, 2011 | 11:27:51 (EST)

Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1998 when I was 24 years old, I knew nothing about cancer. Since then, my health and healing journey has taken me to places far and wide.

Within one month I had undergone awake brain surgery at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....

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