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 […]
In this article by Elena Santos (reprinted from Huffington Post), learn how coloring actually reduces stress. Coloring is an activity that we tend to associate with children. As we grow older, we put aside our crayons and colored pencils in favor of more respectable writing utensils like pens and highlighters. However, it turns out coloring […]