We are here to provide the emotional healing when the physical treatment ends.
Before the diagnosis...
You had a plan for your life; your fertility, career, family, friends, mobility. When we are in the prime of life we don't always have a contingency plan for our health to throw a curveball our way. When this happens, it can feel like the world suddenly stops, we can feel out of control and this brings with it a new awareness of our mortality and the fragility of life.
During treatment...
Whether your condition is lifelong, life limiting or requires several weeks/months of active treatment - at first we step into 'survival mode'. Getting through appointments, scans and treatment and marking the milestones, counting down the days until 'its over'. Or at least to a point of things 'resuming normality'. During this time we can be very much focused on the appointments and milestones, and less about how we are feeling about it all.
When treatment ends...
That sense of relief that you have waited so long for can sometimes feel like an anticlimax. Everyone around you expects you to be 'back to normal' and 'no longer a patient'. But inside, your world has entirely changed, you feel broken internally because your health just knocked you off your perch. You've witnessed how fragile life can be, and suddenly everything feels different, but you can't pinpoint what exactly.
The Diagnosis Spiral
The Diagnosis Spiral is a health framework identified by the charity founder Dr Liz Murray. It outlines that what can begin as a physical problem, without support can lead to an emotional, social and economical one. New fear and health anxiety, a change in outlook, chronic pain and symptoms...we try to 'mask', or avoid socialising, or work no longer feels easy.
Who you were before a diagnosis often feels like someone you no longer know....
A life changing health condition can flip your world upside down. Your outlook on life, your relationships, your values, your vision for the future...suddenly everything can feel out of your control. Without the right support beyond the physical treatment, it can be easy to fall into a Diagnosis Spiral.
Medicine is there for the physical recovery and healing. But when that stops...what should be a time of relief can suddenly feel surprisingly unsettling.
What starts as a physical problem, can become an emotional, social and economic problem. Trying to return to the person you were 'before diagnosis' isn't always possible. But whilst at first this comes with grief and worry, we know from lived experience that actually, the you 'beyond' the diagnosis, can be stronger, more fulfilled and discover a new outlook and direction in life that you could never have before imagined.
But we know that with the right support, the 'you' beyond the journey will blossom again. Stronger, resilient and with a renewed appreciation for life.
Your goals, outlook, values and desires might have changed, but this can be something to look forward to. Sometimes the world around you continues as normal, but inside everything seems to have changed and feels different. We know, we have all been there. We know that there is a place of post-transcendent stength and joy. And we have designed unique programmes that don't exist anywhere else, to help you get there too.
You may never be who you were before, but that doesn't need to be a negative thing. The strength found from healing can make you more resilient, restore control and help you thrive with a newfound joy of life.
Inspired by Kintsugi
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold to turn the cracks into something more beautiful instead of something broken.
This was the concept for our first major campaign, Scars of Gold where we shared the strength of 100 people with gold capturing their scars seen and unseen. The campaign was a phenomenal success and inspired the essence of our charity's mission.
A unique set of programmes to help you reflect on where you were before, where you are now, and where you want to be. Moving beyond the diagnosis to thrive again with control of your life and future. For anyone, any diagnosis.
Developed by medical professionals, professional life coaches and founded by over 100 people of lived experience of over 170 health challenges. We are here to greet you exactly where you are, and guide you to where you want to be, however long that takes, in a way that works for you.
Reflection
STEP 1
A one-to-one debrief session with our trained team. A safe space to reflect on everything you have been through. Empathy based reflection to pause and acknolwedge what you have gone through, sometimes this is the first time you realise just exactly how much you have gone through, often whilst running in 'survival mode'. A cathartic process of 'offloading' and take a pause to reflect on where you were, what you went through, and where you are now.dictum quam, at blandit leo.
Guided workshop
STEP 2
A 10-step online course curated by a professional life coach but adapted as a health coach process. Providing evidence based, psychologically-focused sessions to process, review and build the tools needed to move beyond treatment. A six week course online, with a workbook to help guide and reflect, online community sessions with our health coaches. Courses to process who you were before, where you are now and where you want to be. With additional workshops to develop new tools to help you thrive in this new chapter of your life. Curated by professionals with lived experience.
Continued support with community
STEP 3
Continue to maintain focused on life beyond with our online community support groups, in person events. Or at any point if life changes and unexpected health challenges recur (which we know can happen) you can return to Step 1 or Step 2 at any point.
Designed to be here when you need us, in a way that works for you.