Strive to Thrive and SURVIVE

Connect to Heal helps you to Survive and Thrive through your cancer Journey and their caregivers lead fuller, healthier lives by offering the tools and techniques to reduce stress, make healthy lifestyle choices, restore hope for the future and re-establish a sense of control. 

How to you face change during a caner journey ? How do you become aware, take action and accept where you are ? 

From our own experience as a cancer survivor that will inspire and motivate you to handle challenging times.

The program targets many of the emotional, physical, psychosocial and practical issues that cancer survivors often face during and after treatment - all of which impact overall physical and mental health. Survive and Thrive offers the opportunity to participate in programs, lectures, classes and social events, and will include some of the following

• Mind-body stress reduction programs such as meditation
• Exercise and physical activity programs including Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi , Pilates and Zumba.
• Nutrition education and awareness with hands-on opportunities to explore and understand healthy eating and food preparation skills that can help bodies heal.
• Expressive arts to support emotional well-being including writing for wellness, art classes, crocheting and scrapbooking.
• Awareness of and access of healthy lifestyle programs online.
• Activities designed with the express purpose of reducing social isolation through interactions, play and humour and social activities for Survivors.