Sleep & Fatigue Webinar

In this interactive webinar, we’ll discuss one of the most common symptoms that comes with a cancer diagnosis: fatigue. Find out how fatigue can look and feel different in the context of cancer, and learn strategies to help boost your energy and decrease fatigue. Come prepared to do a short movement practice to manage fatigue, led by IMWF’s yoga therapist Ann MacMullan. Because fatigue and sleep disturbance often go hand-in-hand on the cancer journey, we’ll also define which common behaviors can get in the way of a good night’s sleep, and learn how to create an environment that invites sleep, rather than chasing the elusive 8 hours of deep sleep. You’ll leave the webinar with new tools to improve sleep quality, combat fatigue, and thus improve your overall quality of life while living with Waldenstrom’s. Come ready to have all your sleep and fatigue questions answered! Rina S. Fox, PhD, MPH is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, where she studies ways to help improve quality of life and decrease symptoms for adults facing cancer and other chronic illnesses. She is particularly interested in identifying ways that cancer survivors can sleep better and feel less fatigued by changing the way they think and act. Dr. Alexandria Muench, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Research Associate within the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies ways to treat insomnia and fatigue in cancer. Dr. Muench’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute). She is also the author/co-author of multiple publications in the areas of insomnia and Behavioral Sleep Medicine and regularly provides lectures and trainings on these topics.