By Caryn McCurry, CLC, New Insights Life and Career Coaching Caryn, a Certified Life Coach, shares some tips on ways to take care of yourself by making the most of the “tools” you already have inside of you. Who are you? What are your unique abilities or gifts and talents? What are the things others […]
By Andrea Karl, BSSupport Connection Peer Counselor Andrea is one of the Peer Counselors on our staff. At one point, she facilitated 4 support groups a month. In this blog post, she shares her personal experience as a support group member after her own diagnosis in 2003, as well as what she’s learned from other […]
By Barbara Cervoni, LMSW, ACSW Director of Services and Communication, Support Connection, Inc. What Is Cancer Survivorship? Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer almost 4 years ago I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what the words “cancer survivor” meant. After all, for 11 years I’d been employed at Support Connection, a […]
By Robin Perlmutter, LMSW Support Connection Peer Counselor Our patience is tested every day in the most superficial ways. In today’s society and thanks to technology, our definition of and tolerance for patience has changed drastically. I can think of a multitude of examples of this on a superficial level. Waiting on line at the […]