Stories that Heal – 2

This is a review of The Spirituality of Imperfection – Storytelling and the Journey to Wholeness by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham (Bantam Books, 1994), written by Steve Simpson, a Healing Journey course leader. This follows on from the Stories that Heal blog post. Storytelling is an integral part of the Healing Journey, with group [...]

Reflections on David Servan-Schreiber’s ideas

As a Healing Journey course leader, I was very interested to read about David Servan -Schreiber’s book:  Not the Last Goodbye – Reflections on life, death, healing and cancer in Petra Griffiths’ blog post.  Some of the ideas which the book seems to address are very much the stuff of what we explore and discuss [...]

Next online course starting in March

We’re delighted to announce that our second Coping with Cancer Stress online course will be starting on Wednesday 28th March at 7.30pm. This time it’s open to English speakers around the world and not just to people in the UK. The purpose of the course is help participants reduce the stress of cancer and improve [...]

David Servan-Schreiber’s approach to living and dying

One the books that people doing our recent HJ course found most useful was Anti-Cancer by David Servan-Schreiber, which summarises evidence-based approaches to lifestyle factors that help reduce the risk of cancer and of cancer recurrence (two different things). David Servan-Schreiber, a professor of psychiatry at Pittsburgh and author of the very popular earlier book [...]

An interview with Richard Pemberton

This is an interview with Richard Pemberton, who completed Level 5 in November 2011. He travelled all the way from Nottingham to London as he couldn’t find anything like it nearer him. Among the topics he covers are: what he found attractive about the Healing Journey how the programme has helped him become more accepting [...]

My experience of the Healing Journey programme

(This is written by someone who finished Level 5 in November 2011.) I remember when I first came to Paul’s Centre for my initial appointment with Beverley van der Molen, I was an upset wreck and didn’t know where to turn. After my chat with her, I thought “finally, somebody who understands how I feel”. [...]