Healing in the Midst of a Cancer Journey

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Week 1: Impacts of a Cancer Diagnosis

This session will provide an overview of whole person wellbeing, and will introduce mindfulness as a tool for enhancing it. We will also discuss mental health symptoms and diagnoses commonly experienced by people with cancer and their family caregivers. You will have an opportunity to explore and validate your own individual experiences through private reflection, and will receive mental health resources to empower you on your wellbeing journey. 

Week 2: Exploring Difficult Mental & Emotional States

In our first week, the unique experiences of a cancer journey and the impact it can have on mental health were discussed. This week’s session will dive deeper and explore difficult mental & emotional states associated with a cancer diagnosis. The perspective of the person living with a cancer diagnosis, the perspective of the caregiver, and the shared experience will be explored. 

Week 3: Taking a Strengths-Based Approach

The focus of the final two sessions will be to offer hope and empowerment. We will provide education and resources for taking charge of your journey, regaining your sense of self, and aligning with your purpose. We’ll close with mindful intentionality and clarity around the next steps of your healing journey.

Week 4: Grief & Suffering

This session will explore grief, anticipatory grief, and the pain and suffering that they bring. Whether you are grieving a loved one or the life you always imagined, finite and ambiguous loss are two of the most challenging emotional states to live in. They come with a depth of pain and suffering that most of society either does not understand or is not willing to engage in. Finding a safe space for grieving is challenging, but imperative. In addition to exploring grief, we will explore resources for finding this critical support. 

Week 5: Relationships & Community

Receiving a serious diagnosis, or caregiving for someone who has received one, can make you feel exiled from the life you once knew. Finding individuals and communities that honor your lived experience can be very helpful. In this session, the power of relationships and the value of community in healing will be explored. 

Week 6: Tools for Healing: Creating a Path Forward

The focus of the final two sessions will be to offer hope and empowerment. We will provide education and resources for taking charge of your journey, regaining your sense of self, and aligning with your purpose. We’ll close with mindful intentionality and clarity around the next steps of your healing journey.