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Pacific House at Night

Healing, Learning, Poetry
A poem by CCHP alumna Amber Kennedy
August 28, 2019
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Gifts

Healing, Learning
Since Lori's days as an overnight camper and counselor she's known the transformative power of immersion experiences, and CHP is most certainly that. Here is a small taste of the gifts that she found at Commonweal.
August 28, 2019
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How do you hold a moon beam?

Healing, Social support
Why has it been so difficult and taken so long for me to write about the most meaningful and transformational experience of my life? Wording the question this way may make the answer obvious but I laugh at the first thing that pops into my mind. It’s the line from The Sound of Music song, “How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?”
August 27, 2019
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Cancer Camp at Commonweal

Healing
By Christabel Cheung GangsterLog.Stardate.10.30.2012 – If you lose fat at fat camp, maybe you lose cancer at cancer camp? Ok, so I’m not really that naïve, but I arrived at the Commonweal Cancer Help Program last week after having been…
August 27, 2019
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Dr. Deb

Healing
Dr. Deb has figured out how to enliven the lost soul not just for her own healing but also for the healthcare professionals in her life.
July 25, 2019
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The Healing Power of Love

Healing, Social support
A terminal diagnosis led to 10 lessons on love and the start of Healing Circles Langley.
July 24, 2019
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Rough Initiations

Grief, Healing, Learning
When the door closes to the group room for the first time on Tuesday morning in Kohler House, we enter as nine discreet individuals, often carrying uncertainty and anxiety into the room. Tentative movements are made, perhaps to test the ground…
July 17, 2019
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Cancer Help Program Alum

This blog post was written by an alum who attended a Commonweal Cancer Help Program retreat. The author's name is in the post itself.

Authors

  • Cancer Help Program Alum
    • Commonweal Cancer Help Program Alumni Circles
    • Oblivion
    • Bent Not Broken
    • Pacific House at Night
    • Two Poems
  • Diana Lindsay
    • The Healing Power of Love
  • Francis Weller
    • Rough Initiations
  • Janie Brown
    • Dr. Deb
    • In Exile
  • Rob Feraru
    • Healing Circles
  • Terri Mason
    • Untie
    • Depth Without Digging
    • Sitting with Uncertainty

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