Find out more about peer-to-peer support groups

As regular blog readers will know I used to work for Yes to Life and help establish their cancer support groups in real life and online. To find out more about these there is an excellent new radio show with Sara Spinks, the current Co-ordinator for the Yes to Life programme of Wigwam Support Groups. She is an ardent advocate for the many benefits of group work including looking into the deeper questions of life, or simply for mutual support and learning.

All the groups are consistently appreciated by members on a wide variety of levels. During the interview, two Yes to Life Wigwam Group members will also describe what keeps them coming back for more.

Find out more about Yes to Life’s Wigwam Cancer Support Groups via the links below:

• Yes to Life Cancer Support Groups
• Yes to Life Wigwam Book Club

Check thepodcast out at: https://yestolife.org.uk/radio_shows/groups-healing-power-of-meeting/

See also my blog on what can make the biggest difference to our healing: https://myunexpectedguide.blogspot.com/2021/03/what-can-make-biggest-difference-to-our.html

And about building a community of Wigwam groups: https://myunexpectedguide.blogspot.com/2021/05/building-community-of-peer-led-support.html

Feeling creative? Could you help with our next cancer and art magazine?

Flourish Magazine is a joint venture between integrative cancer care charity Yes to Life and creative health charity Artlift, funded by National Lottery Awards for All, Arts Council, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and many others. I helped establish this magazine to be a space explore the benefits of an integrative and creative approach to living with cancer.

It features a range of creative responses, expert information and interviews in each themed edition that offer support and represent the diversity of the cancer community.

Can you help? We are after content, paintings, photos, poems and more for our next issue with the theme 'Mind'. To get involved check out our latest issue on the 'body' with a look at tattoos, sex and more - back pages tell how to get involved.

See our previous five issues at: https://yestolife.org.uk/flourish-magazine/