Provides fashionable, high quality, embroidered shirts with special pockets to help patients manage surgical drains. Available for women and men.
05/24/2025
Bracashirts will be rebranding. Watch for our new book, due out soon and our cancer coaching and teaching platform based on the book and our public speaking series.
Our new website site will be out soon.
10/20/2024
BE THE CHANGE
Implementing a change to establish healthy lifestyle habits takes time, planning, and some fortitude. Are you eager to unleash your full potential and achieve success in your life? The journey to unlocking health transformation requires deliberate actions and a steadfast commitment to personal growth. Here’s a breakdown of 14 actionable strategies and tangible examples on how you can incorporate them into your life to help pave the way for success:
Start a journal immediately and set your plans, goals, timelines and actionable steps.
Set Clear Goals (SMART) (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely).
Growth Mindset (map goals and where you want to be in one year from now)
Continuous Learning, never stop learning, always look for unique ways to improve your fitness and inner self
Establish a support network, personal, professional, or group to help keep you accountable and on track
Calculated risks, assessments if you don’t start now
Master time management, you have to plan to take the time and also commit to follow through
Develop resilience, and do your best to eliminate excuses
Seek feedback and measurable outcomes to assess where you are at
Take care of your health (determine and set priorities)
Embrace adaptability and be willing to make little changes to augment your efforts
Be persistent, consistent and committed to your efforts
Celebrate milestones
Give back to others (Pay It Forward), and reach out to someone and help them set up their routines or share your progress by inviting them along.
Commit to continuous growth, resilience, and self-improvement, and watch as you achieve remarkable outcomes and fulfill your highest aspirations, take yourself to new heights.
Journalize your progress daily and note actions and results, problems & solutions as you will be surprised by the changes in your physical, and mental sense of self, just watch yourself change and grow.
Your journey to success begins now and embrace the metaphorical changes. Unlock your true potential, make the decision to start and implement this plan. Make the decision to start now and integrate all exercise, dietary, or mental changes you adopt. Make those changes now, one step at a time. Bring a Positive mental Attitude, and Sense of Gratitude in all that you do.
Embrace The Change. BE THE CHANGE !!
10/09/2024
A few quick tips to help you with reduce stress.
09/26/2024
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, How Can You Make a Difference or Impact?
• Make a Financial Contribution to Breast Cancer Organizations
• Support a cancer patient in need (meals, transportation, etc)
• Advocate for Policy Change and Better Healthcare Support
• Volunteer Your Time or Expertise, Become a Coach
• Support Accessibility to Holistic Care
• Mentor a Cancer Client in Lifestyle Change or Skill-Building
• Amplify and Share the Voices of Breast Cancer Advocates
• Nurse, Nutrition, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Educate to Advocate
In October Bracashirts will be providing our Cancer Education Mini-Series:
1. The Impact of Stress on Our Health
2. Healthy Food Choices
3. Psychology and Mindset for Cancer Survivor/Thrivers
Would your organization like an in-person or zoom session on Cancer Awareness?
Watch for our interactive PowerPoint presentation schedule for patients and coaches. Contact me to reserve a spot for the interactive education series.
09/06/2024
Great Ways to Break Routines and Enjoy the “Spice in Life”
• Work different hours for a week
• Take a cold shower
• Brush your teeth and comb hair with opposite hand
• Take a new route to work
• Ditch caffeine
• Take a break from social media
• Read a hard cover book
• Smile at a stranger
• Listen to music, walk on the beach or in the forest
• Skip your unhealthy snack and eat celery or carrots
• Commit a random act of kindness
• Leave your waitress a big tip
08/21/2024
Cancer Care Roundup with Bracashirts today presents "How Important is Our Gut Health"? Your gut health or the microbes that live within your gut play an important part in your health. These microbes work in a symbiotic way and provide harmony with your cells and tissues. Your gut microbiome influences every system in our body. The brain and immune system, are interconnected with our gut microbiome, thus important to physical and mental health.
Your gastric microbes help you to digest your meals, and uptake essential nutrients that help protect you from disease.
To reset your digestive health, you must first address the root cause and choose to make changes that will optimize your microbiome.
Here are 5 suggestions to help improve your micro-biome:
1. Eat foods high in fiber and roughage (eat the rainbow for variance in your diet).
2. The use of prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics can help.
3. Eating superfoods that helps to defend against free radicals and reduce the effects of oxidative stress.
4. Eat foods that have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
5. Drink water!! Hydration is important.
Here is one of my short reels illustrating this concept. Contact me to participate in my presentation lunch and learn on : Healthy Food Choices and Our Microbiome. catharine@bracashirts.ca
Cancer Care Roundup with Bracashirts today presents "How Important is Our Gut Health"? Your gut health or the microbes that live within your gut play an impo...
08/19/2024
Finding Purpose In Your Life and finding joy in what you love.
A new real for my cancer care and cancer prevention audience. Experimenting with some short reels.
Let me know if you like it !!
Just keeping positive, hope you like this one.
08/03/2024
Ask Me How to Transform Your Dragon:
Cancer Education, Cancer Support, Cancer Coaching.
06/16/2024
A quick message today with Cancercare Roundup with Bracashirts on: Gratitude is Always the Best Attitude. How can we foster the attitude of gratitude?
06/12/2024
I love summer and this video talks about 15 foods and their benefits to incorporate into your diet. With the plethora of fresh fruits and vegetables growing in your garden don't forget to share them with your friends and family when you BBQ.
Cancer Care Roundup with Bracashirts today presents how diet can help with managing cortisol, stress, and inflammation. This is a 4 minute video introducing the topic for follow-up videos on inflammation and stress management I will speak to in the next couple of weeks.
Just a quick 4 minute video introducing how your diet can help to mange cortisol, stress and inflammation.
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As a registered nurse and cancer survivor, I experienced an eye opener as a health care professional after a radical mastectomy.
📷I awoke to large "Hemovac" drains and massive dressings. The hospital provided me with 2 large pockets (pumpkin orange and harvest yellow), ugly material pockets to pin to my shirt. Then they provided me with 2 large safety pins that did not work well. The whole thing was unsafe especially in my weak and shaking post-operative hands.
The constant struggle to not pull out my drains seemed impossible. The tubes got caught on counter tops, door handles, cupboard k***s, towel racks, even the toilet paper holder. Someone passed me in the hall at the hospital, swung their purse which caught my drain and almost pulled it out. “OUCH”!!
To solve all these issues, I designed BRACAShirts to be fashionable, high quality, loose-fitting, beautifully embroidered shirts with large pockets which helped to secure the drains, decrease handling, and protect the tubing.
Management of the drains and preventing post-surgical complications is critical. BRACAShirts will help improve post-operative health care outcomes by reducing drain extractions, improve safety with no pins and secured drains in the pockets which allows the patient to move and ambulate. Mobility post operatively is important to prevent post-operative pneumonia and decrease the incidence of deep vein thrombosis. Improved physical comfort, improved psychological comfort and body image is extremely important post operatively. Post op complication should always be minimized.
Our Products
BRACAShirt 1 with Outside Pockets:
The shirts with outside pockets, will help ease the caring for the drains and will allow for freedom of movement. The tubes and drains are passed through the split in the seam to be placed in the pocket and secured with Velcro.
BRACAShirts 2 with Inside Pockets:
Inside pockets are ideal for when you have visitors to your room. They provide discretion and comfort as the drains are hidden.
BRACAGowns:
The hospital gowns will help the patient in the hospital and at home manage their drains and secure the drains while sleeping. Rest in comfort knowing the won’t be pulled out while you sleep.
BRACAShirts and gowns are not only for post mastectomy care, they are ideal for post open abdominal surgery when drains are utilized. For the consumer convenience we provide sales and rental service.
It has been just over a year since I formed BRACAShirts. Future changes are important to watch for come the end of January 2021. BRACAShirts will be introducing a new interactive website. We will be highlighting Cancer Care Roudup where I will be gradually adding interviews, podcasts, reading material, and articles. We also have endorsed cancer care products highlighted on our collection page but also introduced via interviews. We hope you will look at our new pages, provide areas for improvement. I also encourage professionals and businesses to come forward who would like to look at partnerships, or provide enhanced material for our Cancer Care Roundup educational promotions. The website will also provide opportunity for people to make calendar appointments to speak to me.
If you know someone who is having a mastectomy or will be having abdominal surgery, please refer them to BRACAShirts.
