cCare offers journaling support class for women on the cancer journey

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dr. Marianne Ingheim is simply a crab survivor.

"In 2016, I was diagnosed with crab astatine the property of 41," said Dr. Marianne Ingheim, the facilitator for the Pages of Hope supportive journaling class. "Then successful 2023, I had a recurrence."

That aforesaid year, Dr. Ingheim besides completed her radiation attraction successful April.

Through the uncertainty, Dr. Ingheim recovered her dependable and regained her communicative done journaling. Out of her journey, Dr. Ingheim's publication Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion was born.

"It was a mode of, connected the 1 hand, coping with what was happening successful the present and now," said Dr. Ingheim. "But besides making meaning of the full acquisition and being capable to make my ain narrative."

Part of her travel led Marianne to prosecute her PhD, which she earned successful 2024. Now she wants to assistance others find their dependable done a supportive journaling people called the Pages of Hope.

"Cancer is life-changing, and journaling tin beryllium a mode to assistance america marque consciousness of it all," said Dr. Ingheim.

The six-week people welcomes women astatine immoderate signifier of their crab journey. The escaped sessions volition beryllium some in-person astatine cCare disconnected Millbrook Avenue successful Northeast Fresno and online.

The extremity is to assistance physique meaning, resilience, and self-compassion.

"We get to constitute freely astir our thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears," said Dr. Ingheim. "Writing down our symptom tin really externalize it. That mode we're not arsenic overwhelmed by it."

Cancer tin beryllium a lonely and achy journey. But Dr. Ingheim hopes that done the class, they tin physique a sisterhood of survivors, giving them the spot and courageousness to constitute their pages of hope.

"We are creating a community," said Dr. Ingheim. "We are creating a consciousness of communal humanity."

Click here to motion up and registry for the Pages of Hope class.

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