The Well

Like a literal well, The Well provides nourishment, sustenance, and restoration — all of which we need especially in the midst or aftermath of cancer treatment.

Cancer treatments are incredible — and the experience of being a cancer patient can also be profoundly disembodying. Our physical bodies become the focus of scans, medications, procedures, appointments, and numbers, while our minds and spirits need care, too. The field of oncology is simultaneously enormous in its scope and narrow in its focus, and often our doctors — who provide us with life-sustaining treatments — cannot answer to what this feels like. For that, we need one another.

The Well offers a space for women to come together monthly and experience a healing moment together while providing space and a framework for connection. Each monthly virtual gathering will offer an invitation for creative exploration as well as questions for reflection.

Unlike a support group, The Well is less about coping and more about healing in community. We know that physical and mental health improve when we are engaged in positive relationships; The Well serves as a catalyst for initiating those relationships. This is not a place to talk about cancer; it is a place where women with cancer come together to honor their wholeness.