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Teresa Hii · Certified Health Coach & Cancer Thriver · Malaysia

Empowering Lives Beyond Cancer

Friendly, personal coaching for cancer patients and survivors — practical self-care and a clearer path toward long-term wellbeing, alongside your medical team, not instead of it.

2025 Recipient of The International Women’s Gloria Award by TIAF Awards

Cancer can feel overwhelming. You are not powerless, and you are not alone.

Teresa supports cancer patients and survivors who want gentle guidance, practical self-care tools, and a clearer path toward long-term wellbeing — while continuing to work with their medical care team.

This is supportive wellness coaching, not oncology care. Caregivers are welcome to refer someone they love; the work itself is for the person with cancer.

  • Nutrition and everyday lifestyle
  • Movement, rest, and wellbeing
  • Emotional and mental health
  • Family, social, and peer support
  • Coping with a diagnosis
  • Being informed at appointments
  • Recovery and survivorship
  • Practical everyday self-care
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Teresa at the 15th Malaysian International Conference on Holistic Healing from Cancer, Kuala Lumpur, 2025.

Teresa’s story

“I still remember the moment my life quietly split into ‘before’ and ‘after.’”

There was no dramatic collapse — just a routine screening in 2018. Teresa went on to face kidney cancer, and later breast cancer. Medically she was fortunate: both were found early. Emotionally, it was anything but simple.

“Cancer does not only attack the body. It challenges the mind, the spirit, and one’s sense of identity.” Integrative self-care became her complement to medical care — never a replacement — and in 2021 she trained as a certified health coach so that no one else would have to walk this path feeling lost, alone, or powerless.

Today she is a two-time cancer thriver. “Cancer did not break me. It awakened me.”

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The framework

10 Pillars of Self-Care

A simple framework for body, mind, emotions, and everyday routines throughout and beyond cancer treatment. In a consultation, Teresa uses the Cancer Care Planner to go deeper into the pillars that matter for you.

  1. 01Accepting Your DiagnosisAcceptance brings clarity and empowers action.
  2. 02Treatment ModalitiesBe informed and involved in your treatment decisions, working with your healthcare team.
  3. 03Setting GoalsSmall steps every day lead to big transformations.
  4. 04Detox
  5. 05NutritionEveryday food as part of self-care.
  6. 06Healthy LifestyleMove your body and protect your sleep.
  7. 07Mental HealthHealing happens better when we are supported.
  8. 08Spiritual Connection
  9. 09Dental Hygiene
  10. 10Progress MonitoringStay in follow-up with your medical team.

The names are public; the depth is personal. Each pillar is explored in consultation, shaped to where you are.

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Two ways to work together

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One-to-one consultancy

Support shaped around you.

In a one-to-one session, we talk through where you are in your cancer journey, what feels difficult, and what kind of support would be most useful.

Together we identify practical next steps and go deeper into the parts of the 10 Pillars of Self-Care that matter most to your situation, using the Cancer Care Planner.

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Group consultancy

Structured support, shared learning.

Group-based cancer-wellness support for people who want structured guidance and the company of others walking a similar road.

Teresa already hosts online wellness programmes, live sessions, and physical conferences; the group consultancy brings that experience into a smaller, more personal setting.

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Both are wellness coaching alongside medical care, not instead of it. Read the fuller scope.

Years inside Malaysia’s cancer community

Teresa Hii in a peach jacket high-fives a colleague while conference participants stand and clap behind them
Teresa with participants at the 15th Malaysian International Conference on Holistic Healing from Cancer, Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, 2025.
2025 Recipient of The International Women’s Gloria Award by TIAF Awards
Presented at The International Awards Summit 2025 – Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in recognition of social contributions to the cancer community.
Organising Chairman, 15th Malaysian International Conference on Holistic Healing from Cancer (2025)
Theme “Diet & Nutrition in Cancer”, under CanSurvive Centre Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur — with hundreds of patients, survivors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
Founder, Grace & Healing Mini Support Group
A cancer support group in Miri, Sarawak — emotional, practical, and educational support, and a safe space to be heard.
Monthly talks and wellness programmes
Regular cancer-care talks, online sessions, and in-person programmes, teaching the 10 Pillars at a public-education level. Past Deputy Chairman and Secretary, CanSurvive Centre Malaysia (2022–2023).
About Teresa

You don’t have to walk this journey alone.

If you’re looking for personal support with your wellbeing during or after cancer treatment, write a few lines below. Teresa will reply by email to explore whether a consultation — one-to-one or group — is right for you.

“You are not powerless. You are not alone.”

Teresa’s coaching provides supportive wellness guidance and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Clients should continue to work with their doctors, oncologists and other qualified healthcare professionals regarding their cancer treatment.