Holistic Therapies For Cancer Patients

HAILING from the famous Mahindra business family, Samara launched a business venture a few years ago. But about seven years ago, after her mother succumbed to cancer, she got deeply involved in introducing complementary therapies of healing and recovery to patients.

A certified Cancer Exercise Specialist and Breast Cancer Recovery Trainer, she is also a qualified personal fitness trainer from the American Academy of Personal Training, New York; Holistic Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition; and certified in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University and the T. Colin Campbell Foundation.

Samara is also certified as a Holistic Cancer Coach from Beatcancer.org, Center for Advancement in Cancer Education. She focuses on the CARER Program that she launched.

- Samara Mahindra

The CARER Program was born from a personal encounter with cancer in which I first hand witnessed the lack of required services and care in the space of cancer treatment and healing.

Seven years later and today CARER is India’s first and only company to provide holistic therapies for cancer patients and survivors in the comfort of their home.

The CARER Program is complementary to the mainstream treatment and gives the person treated a fighting chance to heal and survive both in body and mind. While mainstream treatment targets the physical symptoms of the disease, CARER digs deep down into the root cause of why it happened in the first place.

The integration of these two is now looking to manage side effects of treatment better, increase the effectiveness of treatment, strengthen immunity and put patients and survivors on the right path to decreasing chances of relapse.

FOUR FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES

CARER has created the programme based on four fundamental approaches to healing: Diet and nutrition intervention; physical rehabilitation and detoxification through Yoga therapy; mental health and emotional well-being with meditation and coaching; and counseling for patients and family members.