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    • Keep Breathing: Introduction
    • Part 1
      • Stay Grounded
      • Keep Breathing
      • Gather Information
      • Feel What You Feel
      • Take in Support
      • Pray
      • Practice Surrender
      • Notice Your Reactivity
    • Part 2
      • Realize What Is Happening to You
        Is Happening To Everyone in Your Life
      • Take Inventory
      • Let Go of Shame
      • Extend Grace
      • Show Up
      • Learn Vulnerability
      • Make Amends
      • Stay Present in Times of Waiting
    • Part 3
      • Be Still and Keep Moving
      • Know You Are Not Alone
      • Ask for Healing
      • Seek Guidance
      • Meditate
      • Pursue Peace
      • Acknowledge Death
      • Grieve
    • Part 4
      • Express Gratitude
      • Stay Open to Joy
      • Make Room for Laughter
      • Celebrate Each Day
      • Let Yourself Be Carried
      • Be Who You Are
      • Know That You Are Loved
  • Desperate Hope
    • Shocked by the Diagnosis
    • Responding to Feelings of Fear, Anxiety, and Sadness
    • Ordering Desperate Hope
  • TLC Leader’s Manual
    • Group Leader Resources
      • Introduction to TLC
      • Meeting Format
      • Notes to Group Leaders
      • When a Group Member Dies
    • Strong Feelings
      • Understanding our Feelings
      • The Emotional Roller Coaster
      • Living With Fear
      • Dealing With Depression
      • Living with Anger
      • Grieving Our Losses
      • The Experience of Gratitude
      • Celebration and Joy
      • Experiencing Peace
      • Finding Hope
    • Challenges to Faith
      • Stretching Our Faith
      • Prayer
      • Examining Our View of God
      • Healing Prayer
      • The Lord Is With Us
      • God’s Healing Presence
    • Changing Perspectives
      • The Seasons Of Survival
      • Living Sanely in An Insane World
      • One Day At A Time
      • Positive Thinking
      • Accepting Our Need for Help
      • Building Friendships
      • Perspectives on Treatment
      • Coping With Pain
      • Repairing Our Self Esteem
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Welcome

We’re delighted that you have found your way here! If the word cancer has become part of your daily concern, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you have been recently diagnosed, are in treatment

or are struggling with the long-term impact of cancer, or have a loved one who has cancer, we hope you will find these resources to be helpful.

What you will find here:

  • The complete text of Juanita Ryan’s book Keep Breathing: What To Do When You Can’t Figure Out What To Do
  • Selected portions of Barbara Milligan’s book Desperate Hope: Experiencing God in the Midst of Breast Cancer
  • The complete text of the leader’s manual for the Together Living with Cancer support group.

These resources can be used by you individually, or they can be used as the basis for conversation with others. The TLC Leader’s Manual provides guidelines for a support group, complete with suggestions about meeting format and group discussion topics.

We’re both in the helping professions. Juanita is a therapist and Barbara is a spiritual director. And we’re both cancer survivors. (See the About section for further information). Our writing is informed by our professional training and experience, but it primarily reflects our personal journeys with cancer. We both share about the emotional and spiritual challenges we experienced and about the many gifts of grace that blessed and transformed us along the way. We both live and write out of our faith as Christians, which is central to who we are and how we struggle and live with life’s troubles and blessings. But we want to make this a welcoming place for people of all faiths and perspectives. It is our prayer that some of what we have to offer here will bring you hope and strength and a sense that you are not alone with whatever you are facing.

We hope to add more resources in the future. . . so check back every once in a while!

May your roots sink deeply in the soil of God’s love,

Juanita Ryan
Barbara Milligan

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"Some mornings when I am out walking I look up at the sky and it seems far away. On other days I realize that the sky kisses the earth. As I walk, I move through sky. I walk surrounded by sky. I breath in the sky. It lives inside of me. Whether the sky seems close or far away, the truth is that it is always close. And, so it is with God. God is the One in whom we “live and breathe and have our being” (Acts 17:28). God is with us. Always. God’s loving presence caresses us, surrounds us, fills us. I am not alone. You are not alone. God is with us. And God knows. You can trust this absolutely."
Juanita Ryan

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Daily Meditation

A daily meditation written by Dale and Juanita Ryan is available at the web site of the National Association for Christian Recovery

About TLC and the NACR

TLC is a ministry of the National Association for Christian Recovery. We encourage you visit nacr.org. It is full of resources for Christians experiencing addiction, abuse or trauma.

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