✦ Services

Cancer Mindset Coaching

✦ Coaching philosophy

Coaching that helps you thrive.

Erica’s philosophy integrates mindset, practical health strategy and long-term change.

Empowered Cancer Mindset Coaching & Advocacy

Supporting, Inspiring & Empowering Cancer Patients, Caregivers, Families & Survivors

When Cancer Changes Everything

A cancer diagnosis can change life in an instant. Suddenly, you may find yourself navigating medical decisions, uncertainty, fear, changing roles, relationships, work, family responsibilities, and a healthcare system that can feel overwhelming.

Cancer Mindset Coaching & Advocacy offers a place to sort through what is in front of you, reconnect with what remains within your control, and find your own way forward — one decision, one conversation, and one day at a time.

Reclaim Your Sense of Agency

Cancer can leave you feeling as though so much is happening to you. Coaching can help you identify where choice and agency still exist: how you care for yourself, communicate your needs, prepare for appointments, establish boundaries, make decisions, ask for support, and choose where to place your energy.

The goal isn’t to tell you how to think or insist that you “stay positive.” It’s to help you develop a mindset that is realistic, resilient, compassionate, and authentically your own.

Realistic Optimism Without Toxic Positivity

You do not have to be positive every day to be resilient. Fear, anger, grief, uncertainty and hope can coexist. Cancer mindset coaching creates room for the reality of what you are facing while helping you develop practical strategies for navigating uncertainty, focusing on what you can influence, and continuing to engage with the parts of life that matter most to you.

Hope doesn’t require denying reality. Sometimes it means finding possibility within it.

Healthcare Advocacy & Navigation

Complex healthcare experiences can be difficult to navigate, particularly when you’re exhausted, frightened, or facing important decisions. Advocacy support can help you prepare questions for healthcare appointments, organize information, clarify your priorities, communicate concerns, seek appropriate resources, and become a more confident participant in your own care.

Advocacy does not replace medical advice or make medical decisions for you. It helps you find your voice, understand your questions, and advocate for what matters to you.

Support Beyond Treatment

Finishing treatment doesn’t always mean life simply returns to “normal.” Survivorship can bring its own questions: fear of recurrence, changes in identity, relationships and priorities, rebuilding physical confidence, returning to work, and wondering what comes next.

Coaching can provide support as you process what you’ve been through, reconnect with yourself, clarify what matters now, and begin intentionally shaping the chapter ahead.

Support for Families & Caregivers

Cancer rarely affects only one person. Partners, caregivers and family members may also be navigating uncertainty, changing responsibilities, difficult conversations, advocacy demands and the emotional weight of supporting someone they love.

Coaching offers practical support for navigating these challenges while also making room for your own needs, boundaries, well-being and resilience.

✦ Who it’s for

Lived Experience Meets Professional Experience

My work in cancer coaching and advocacy is deeply personal. I understand what it is like for life to change with a diagnosis, to navigate complex healthcare systems, to live with profound uncertainty, and to rebuild when the future looks very different from the one you imagined.

That lived experience is complemented by my professional background in healthcare, health and resilience coaching, counselling psychology, and years of work helping people navigate adversity.

I won’t tell you that I know exactly how you feel. Every cancer experience is different. But I can meet you with compassion, perspective, practical tools, and an understanding of just how much can exist behind the words, “You have cancer.”

✦ Diagnosis

You Are More Than Your Diagnosis

Cancer may become part of your story, but it does not have to become the entirety of who you are. Whether you are newly diagnosed, undergoing treatment, living with cancer, entering survivorship, caring for someone you love, or trying to find your footing after everything has changed, you don’t have to navigate every part of the experience alone. Wherever you are in your cancer story, let’s explore what it means to rise from here.

✦ Coaching Accolades

Straight from Erica’s Clients

Reproduced exactly as each person wrote them.
Erica is genuine, caring, honest and motivating! Her purpose-driven ‘Bounce Back Coaching Sessions’ are truly unique and will create clarity and precision to help reenergize you and your business! I needed a re-set and re focus for my business. Erica provided me with very specific industry marketing ideas and helped tweak my mindset. I am back on track with a determined direction and focus! You can be too!

Ian Dunsmuir

I reached out to Erica when it felt like my whole world was crashing down. Every-time I turned around I was faced with a new obstacle. I wanted to give up. Then I remembered my good friend Erica who has travelled a similar path. She was always so positive and real, that’s what drew me towards her. Erica began working with me to equip me with tools and strategies to help me navigate through my health prognosis. She taught me strategies on how to be prepared if things go array. She taught me to a build a Vision board and I use it everyday as a constant reminder of what I’m fighting so hard for and various other tips and tools. I will be forever grateful for her friendship and all the tools she’s given me to navigate this crazy life.

Miranda Frigon

I was a happy, spirited, motivated, carefree 13 year old, until I was given a life changing diagnosis. I had kidney cancer. I was later diagnosed with a genetic kidney cancer disorder and I had my kidney removed. After going through all I went through, I had anxiety, and I wasn’t spirited, carefree or motivated like I had been. Dr. Erica Harris’ coaching program at Rise Today Consulting changed that for me. Something clicked in what she taught me and I became that happy, spirited, and carefree girl I had been. I am motivated and I feel I have a purpose again. This program will help you if you are a survivor of hardship. Thank you Erica for helping me find myself again.

Baya

Several months ago, as a single mom of two special needs boys, I was feeling very down and overwhelmed with my life when I reached out to my childhood friend Erica. I have always admired her positive outlook on life and the courage that she calls on within herself to tackle any challenge that comes her way. Erica and I immediately dove in, tackling difficult questions about childhood, discussing coping mechanisms, and how to effectively process feelings both past and present. She helped me to identify the major stumbling blocks in my life, and guided me through the steps necessary to have a more positive, proactive outlook. Erica helped me to build a toolbox of numerous invaluable strategies and approaches to remain calm in the face of adversity, finding more positive and constructive ways to get the most out of life. This has allowed me to understand myself better in the process, getting down to the root of problems and finding effective and longstanding solutions. I now have the confidence that I can effectively navigate through the adversities in my life, allowing me to feel better prepared for and finding more enjoyment in all the precious life moments. Erica is an amazingly insightful life coach and I cannot thank her enough for the gifts that she has given me.

Andrea

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