Your emotional wellbeing
Living with lymphoma can have an impact on your life in many ways including on your physical, social, spiritual, and psychological or emotional health.
On this page, you’ll find an emotional toolkit – a set of resources with information, tips and techniques to improve your emotional wellbeing if you, or someone you’re supporting, is living with and beyond lymphoma.
On this page
Mental health and lymphoma with Anna Lagerdahl
An introduction video to emotional wellbeing with Angela Waind
Using mindfulness to slow down and hit the pause button
Focusing on your emotional wellbeing and mental health
Additional downloadable resources
Mental health and lymphoma with Anna Lagerdahl
Dr Anna Lagerdahl, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks about the impact of lymphoma on mental health and emotional wellbeing. She looks at the psychological impact of cancer, and at uncertainty and worry, and talks through various strategies that might be helpful. This video was recorded in 2023.
An introduction
In this video, consultant counselling psychologist Angela Waind talks about emotional wellbeing: what it is, how it can be affected by lymphoma and why, how it can be affected for people supporting an individual with lymphoma, and around some of the strategies and tools that might be helpful for supporting positive emotional wellbeing.
Video: 50 minutes.
Guided mindfulness relaxation
In this video, Angela takes you through a guided meditation.
Video: 6 minutes
Using mindfulness to slow down and hit the pause button
In this video, Angela talks through two guided sessions:
- soothing rhythm breathing (starts at 3 minutes); and
- leaves on a stream (starts at 9 minutes).
Video: 17 minutes
Focusing on your emotional wellbeing and mental health
Watch our video on emotional wellbeing and mental health. In conversation with Lymphoma Action's Karen Bonell, psychologist Angela Waind talks about tips and strategies for looking after your wellbeing, and what services are available to help.
You can also listen to this interview as a podcast
Additional downloadable resources
Below is a 'toolkit' of resources that you can download and print at home. Each has been created with Angela Waind, and can be used on their own or together.
- Activity tracking diary
- Aims and goal planning
- Hot cross bun
- My emergency plan
- Thought diary
- Wellbeing diary
- Your guide to wellbeing (from the Summer 2021 edition of Lymphoma Matters magazine)
You might also like:
- Our suite of wellbeing videos
- Focusing on your emotional wellbeing and mental health
- The emotional impact of living with lymphoma
- Managing stress
- When someone close to you had lymphoma
Resources from other organisations
You might find the following resources from Maudsley Learning helpful.
This video series has been developed as part of a partnership between Takeda UK Ltd. and Maudsley Learning and is fully funded by Takeda UK Ltd. All content has been developed by Maudsley learning, with input from relevant patient organisations.
Focusing on your emotional wellbeing - in conversation with Angela Waind
In this podcast, Consultant Counselling Psychologist Angela Waind talks to Lymphoma Action's Karen Bonell about emotional wellbeing and mental health, the links with physical health, and strategies to help support positive mental wellbeing. Recorded on 9 December 2020.