"All cancer centers should consider supporting a Renewing LifeTM Program. Our Cancer Center is proud to support the program."

Dr. Paul Carbone, Director
U.W. Comprehensive Cancer Center

"Renewing LifeTM is geared toward changing self-defeating habits of thought, feelings, and behavior which interfere with healing. It challenges participants to realize that it is not how long they live but how well they live."

Dr. Jay Cleve, Psychologist

"All physicians who take care of cancer patients know that patients who have a good outlook are able to handle their malignancy better than those who do not. This simple observation has been known for years, but it has only recently been investigated and used therapeutically, I am absolutely amazed at the tremendous program that you have created in Renewing Life™ and I am in complete support."

Dr. Sandford Mackman, Surgeon

"I just sort of felt helpless before the group where as after the group I think I can truly call myself a support person."

Pam Klass, RN and Support person

"This program, used with good, supportive medical care, can do wonderful things. People need to view themselves, their M.D.'s and other medical personnel as partners in their fight for life."

Muriel Fieler, RN, Oncology Nurse

Reflections from Participants

"I feel so much more at peace than I did eight weeks ago."

Participant with ALS

"There is something special about Renewing Life™.There is a real blessing to those who participate--the message of this program is living well as long as one lives under an umbrella of love--my quality of life has improved tremendously."

Participant with Cancer

"When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, what I felt most was fear. I was very much afraid of dying and that all the things I had ever dreamed of doing were not going to be possible. I think Renewing Life™ helps people to cope with this. It is learning. It is knowledge, and I believe that knowledge can be healing. It is a different kind of knowledge. It is the kind of knowledge you really need. What is really important is how you are going to go about your survival. How even if you are not going to live (past your diagnosis) how you are going to spend that time in a meaningful way. Renewing Life groups help to make this happen."

Survivor of Breast Cancer

"There's a saying in the program; once you're a pickle you'll never be a cucumber again. Well, that's true. I tried so hard in the beginning to return to the person I had been , but now I know I can't do that. I will never not have MS. I will never not have these scars, but they are part of my wisdom."

Participant with MS

"Thank you. My life has been blessed and changed by this experience."

Participant with Cancer

"This course really first gave me back the future. Once that was back in place, then there was room to look for what we could do next."

Mother of Two Children with Cystic Fibrosis

"You go in isolated, alone, gray, and come out with a new feeling of camaraderie, love and caring. It is definitely renewing."

Participant with Ovarian Cancer

"I had never done anything like this (support group) before. Being a stoic person, I thought I could handle everything by myself, but participating in Renewing Life™ changed my isolation into a sense of community with others."

Participant with Cancer

"I was able to find meaning and renewed love in life."

A Grieving Support Person

"I found great comfort in hearing that others had gone through feelings of fear, loneliness, and loss. You think you're the only one and then you meet all these people who feel the same way."

Participant with Cancer

"I first thought when I went to group that it would be really scary but after the first ten minutes it wasn't scary at all - you just learn that there are other people that have been through very similar situations. The bonding that happens in this group is just incredible and you form life long friendships."

Survivor of Life-threatening Blood Disease