Mental Health and Wellness Top 10: The Resources that Help

Cultivating self-care strategies that are helpful to you as you cope with a cancer diagnosis is important. And, the needs we have often change along the cancer trajectory. Sorting through resources or learning what is available to you can be a daunting task. Let’s talk together about the resources, such as books, groups, Instagrammers, organizations (in addition to SHARE!), and strategies you’ve discovered that have helped you in meaningful and maybe unexpected ways.

1. Mental
Health &
Wellness
Top 10
THE RESOURCES THAT HELP.

2. Understanding Your Needs
•A cancer diagnosis brings questions and needs you may have never had
before.
•Identifying the questions and needs you have takes time.
•Sharing your distress and talking about what you are feeling can
highlight an unmet need that you may not have realized you had.
•Listening to others share their cancer experience may introduce you to
new support options.

3. Think about the various areas of
your life.
•Are you working through cancer?
•Do you have children?
•Do you have adequate health care coverage?
•How are your finances impacted?
•What physical symptoms are you experiencing?

4. The Cancer Related Resources I
Recommend the Most: Medical Information
The National Cancer Institute–www.cancer.gov/types/ovarian
•The National Cancer Institute is the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research
and training.
•NCI leads, conducts and support cancer research across the nation to advance scientific
knowledge and help people live longer, healthier lives.
•Information available in both a Patient Version and a Health Professional Version.
Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance–www.ocrahope.org
Research, advocacy, support and educational programs for those facing a gynecologic cancer.
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition –www.ovarian.org

5. The Cancer Related Resources I
recommend most: Living with Cancer
CancerCare–www.cancercare.org
•Free professional support services and education to help anyone impacted by a cancer
diagnosis.
•Survivors, caregivers and the bereaved.
Cancer Support Community–www.cancersupportcommunity.org
•Support communities, cancer support hotline, virtual programs and education.
Foundation for Women’s Cancers–www.foundationforwomenscancer.org
Bring together communities of support to raise awareness and advocate for women with ovarian
cancer

6. The Cancer Related Resources I
recommend most: Working with Cancer
Cancer & Careers–www.cancerandcareers.org
•Empowers and educates people to thrive in the workplace.
Triage Cancer–www.triagecancer.org
•Provides free education on the practical and legal issues that arise after a cancer diagnosis.

7. The Cancer Related Resources I
recommend most: Peer Matching
Imerman Angels –www.imermanangels.org
•Free personalized one-on-one cancer support through an comprehensive and thoughtful
matching program.
•Matching with a real person –not a generated system with an algorithm.
Cancer Hope Network–www.cancerhopenetwork.org
•Free one on one peer support for adult cancer patients and loved ones.
Friends for Life–www.friends4life.org

8. The Cancer Related Resources I
recommend most: Mindfulness
Calm app–www.calm.com
Ten Percent Happier–www.tenpercent.org

9. The Cancer Related Resources I
recommend most: CBT Oriented
The CBT Deck–100 Practices to Improve Thoughts, Be in the Moment and Take Action
CBT for Psychological Wellbeing & Cancer, Mark Carlson

10. Other Resources
Clearity Foundation –www.clearityfoundation.org
•Treatment decision support and psychosocial support (Steps Through OC free professional
counseling www.stepsthrough.org)
FORCE –www.facingourrisk.org
•Improves the lives of individuals and families facing hereditary cancer through education,
support, advocacy, and research efforts
Unite for HER –www.uniteforher.org
•Free wellness programs that educate breast and ovarian cancer patients about integrative
cancer care and provide access to supportive services and resources at no personal cost
Cook for Your Life –www.cookforyourlife.org
American Cancer Society –www.cancer.org

11. Participant Suggested Resources
CancerChoices–www.cancerchoices.org
•Integrative cancer care
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) –www.askjan.org
Warmline.org
UCLA mindful App
Tapping Solution App
“The Book of Awakening” by Mark Nepo
“Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds” by Kelly A. Turner, PhD
”Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle” by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski
DMA
“The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness” by Jerome Groopman
“Improbable Joy: A 3-Time Cancer Survivor’s Journey to Overcoming Fear and Pain” by KippHarris