Welcome!
Life can change in the blink of an eye.
For better or worse. Making us richer or poorer, healthy or sick.
All of us, at some point, will find ourselves challenged, in small or great ways.
Everyone of us will find a time(s) when we need to re-group, re-frame, re-examine, re-plan, re-start, re-fresh, re-store, re-live!
our lives.
A new season is upon us.
This fall, we encourage you to find some peace and quiet. Explore what you need.
Be gentle with yourself.
And be grateful for each day as another opportunity.
Blessings,
Karen Smith Simonton, Executive Director, SCC
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We are delighted to announce the marriage of Dr. O. Carl Simonton's daughter, Elizabeth, to Russell Gruther on July 25th, 2015.
 
Although unable to walk Elizabeth down the aisle, Dr. Simonton was definitely there in spirit~
His image, contained in a heart locket Elizabeth carried in her bridal bouquet.
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A Room With A View
This September, we were most fortunate to host SCC's 2nd Annual International Director's Conference in Venice and Florence, Italy.
It was a productive time.
Subjects up for discussion; Training, retreats, legalities, marketing, expansion of staff and programming, teaching, international branding, more direct cooperation and ways SCC can continue to help improve the lives of patients around the world!
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Our Directors met in Venice and Florence in late September of 2015.
From left to right; Thera Balvers of SCC Netherlands, Nobuko Kawabata Hashimoto of Japan, Cornelia Kaspar of Germany and Elena Canavese of Italy.
(not pictured: Karen Simonton of the United States- taking the photo ;)
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Simonton Cancer Center's Next Patient Program
Learn Ways to Impact Outcomes and Enhance Your Cancer Treatment!
"Getting Well Again" New Patient Program
held at the beautiful La Casa de Maria Conference Center in Santa Barbara, CA
JOIN US!
November 29th - December 4th, 2015
800-459-3424 or 818-879-7904
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Board Member Alexander Cvitan
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We are delighted to announce the addition of Alexander B. Cvitan to SCC's Board of Directors!
Alex has been a longtime supporter of SCC, having known the work of our organization for the past 30 years.
He is the managing partner of Reich, Adell & Cvitan, a law firm founded in 1975 and nationally regarded for its vigorous and effective representation of labor organizations, workers, employee benefit funds, and union political committees in all areas of labor-management, employment, employee benefit and political/election law.
For over 35 years, he has assumed numerous roles at the firm including lead litigator to his current role as managing partner.
As managing partner, Mr. Cvitan leads the firm in the representation of unions, multi-employer pension, health and welfare and other employee benefit trust funds, and litigation on behalf of individual and classes of workers. The firm's clients include unions and trust funds in the entertainment, construction, manufacturing and service industries, as well as the public sector.
Mr. Cvitan has long championed the causes of organized labor and endeavored to achieve social and economic justice for all working people, whether or not represented by a union. He has lectured on labor law and related issues before the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee; UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations; Los Angeles Community College; and the American Arbitration Association and has been honored in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, Southern California.
Thank you for joining us, Alex!
All of us here at SCC look forward to working with you!
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"Simon(ton) Says......
WATCH"
The Healing (and Humorous) Power of Nature
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A prepared mind has astonishing powers.
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Nooo.....Really???
Welcome to OUR world! |
OLD NEWS
An increasing number of U.S. medical schools now have departments devoted to mind-body research and also mind-body treatment, including Harvard University, (Cambridge, MA) Columbia University (New York, NY), University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pittsburgh (PA).
This now-interdisciplinary research field, which also includes behavioral medicine, is often called psychoneuroimmunology or psychoendoneuroimmunology, and incorporates ideas, belief systems, hopes, and desires as well as biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy.
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A special thanks to the Koller and the Kaplan families
and to ALL who have helped by
contributing to the Terri Koller Kaplan Memorial Fund this year, providing
retreat scholarships for patients in need.
There is still much to be done!
If you or a loved on has benefited from the work of SCC, please consider donating to the Simonton Cancer Center! Go to https://simontoncenter.com/
and hit the
Donate Button! Thank you!
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"Do not worry about what the world wants from you.
Worry about what makes you come alive, because what the world
needs is more people who are more alive."
Larry LeShan, Ph.D.,
SCC Advisory Board Member
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And now a word from...
Walk With A Doc!
Let's give people a break this holiday season.
Doesn't all this pressure about eating healthy for the holidays just make them that much more stressful? Does it even work?
Let's try something new. Tell people they can eat whatever they want, and that if they take plenty of walks, their metabolism will begin to move at lightning speed, freeing up more space in their stomach for them to eat more. Don't tell them that the walks will also make it easier for them to control their appetite, leading to less caloric intake. Remember that this is supposed to seem like a free-for-all!
What do you say? Here's to a gluttonous holiday season ;)
David Sabgir, M.D.
Cardiologist, SCC Advisory Board Member and Founder of the Walk with a Doc program. (Check to see walks in your area!) www.walkwithadoc.org
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendall Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998.
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