Dr. Renée Alsarraf: Author of "Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well"

<p class="p1">For more than two decades, esteemed veterinary oncologist Dr. Renée Alsarraf treated cancer in canine<br /> patients. Then at age fifty-one, she was diagnosed with cancer herself. The disease Dr. Renée had dedicated her professional life to fighting, suddenly left her scared and unsure.<br /> But it was only in receiving her own cancer diagnosis that Dr. Renée realized the empathy she had for<br /> animals went both ways. It was her patients—those furry, four-legged, slobbering animals— who seemed to uniquely understand the jumbled language of her own difficult journey and who showed her the true power of positivity and unconditional love.</p> <p class="p1">Dr. Renée shares what we can learn from dogs in her beautiful memoir <em>Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well”</em></p> <p class="p1"><strong>All of the show notes can be found at <a href="https://thegoodlifecoach.com/215/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://thegoodlifecoach.com/215/</a></strong></p> <p class="p2">WE DISCUSS</p> <ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">Why Dr. Renee wrote this book and what she hopes people will walk away with after reading it.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">How dogs can be an incredible guide when we suffer from any issue.  They are so present and the human-animal bond is so profound.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">She speaks to the power of women and to the moms out their navigating everything. Facing our own mortality.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">How her book helps people navigate end of life decisions with their dogs.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s2">The insights into vet and human medicine and some of the specific differences between how humans and animals are treated when they have cancer, and more.</span></li> </ol> <p class="p2"><strong>RESOURCES MENTIONED</strong></p> <p class="p4"><span class="s3"><a href= "https://amzn.to/3SQb4OI"><strong>Dr. Alsarraf’s book</strong></a></span><span class= "s4"><strong>: </stron