More than Surviving Course

Having cancer is not something anyone prepares for and yet, it changes everything.
It’s natural to resist pain, to push through, to try to stay positive. But underneath that, most people struggle with anxiety, fear, and a deep sense of disconnection.

This course was created to help you find your footing again.
It offers practical, evidence-informed tools and emotional guidance to help you:

  • feel more in control of your inner world,

  • ease anxiety and fear of recurrence,

  • reduce emotional reactivity,

  • and begin to work with, rather than against, difficult emotions.

Through short, therapist-led lessons, reflection exercises, and gentle practices, you’ll learn realistic ways to navigate life during and after cancer at your own pace, without pressure or toxic positivity.

This isn’t about “moving on.”
It’s about learning how to live with what’s happened — with more steadiness, compassion, and choice.

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Meet your instructor

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Meet your instructor ✳

Hi, I’m Cait and I’m so glad you’re here.

I’ve specialized in oncology for the past 15 years. For nearly a decade, I served as the Lead Oncology Social Worker at a Cancer Center in Newport Beach, California, before transitioning into private practice.

Throughout that time, I’ve had the privilege of supporting people facing all types and stages of cancer — and while each experience is unique, I began to notice common emotional themes that almost everyone encounters. Fear, uncertainty, loss, identity shifts, and the quiet, ongoing work of finding your footing again.

These experiences can be profoundly distressing, and the emotional support people need often isn’t easily accessible , especially from someone who truly understands the cancer world.

That’s why I created this course.
It’s built from the tools, insights, and conversations that have helped so many of my clients over the years. It’s designed as a “take what you need, leave the rest” type of space …something real, grounded, and supportive that you can move through at your own pace and come back for as long as you need.

This is something I’ve wanted to create for a very long time, and it means a lot to be able to share it now.

Thank you for trusting me, and for letting me walk alongside you, even just for a small part of your process.

Cait

Course FAQ

  • This course was created to help you navigate the emotional side of cancer — the part that often begins when treatment slows down.

    It covers the major emotional themes that tend to surface during and after cancer, and provides practical, trauma-informed tools to help you cope with them in realistic, compassionate ways.

    Here’s what you’ll find inside:

    • Anxiety & Fear of Recurrence: understanding how fear shows up in the body and mind, and learning ways to feel more steady day-to-day.

    • Trauma After Cancer: how medical and emotional trauma affect your nervous system, and gentle somatic tools for grounding and safety.

    • Grief & Loss: recognizing the many forms of loss — physical, emotional, and future-oriented — and ways to move through them with care.

    • Relationships & Asking for Help: how to communicate needs, set boundaries, and rebuild connection without losing your sense of self.

    • Identity & Role Changes: processing who you are now, beyond “patient” or “survivor,” and finding meaning after everything has changed.

    • Making Meaning & Relearning Hope: learning to hold hope and reality together, rebuild trust in the future, and re-connect to joy and purpose.

    Each module includes short video lessons, reflection prompts, and downloadable handouts you can use anytime.
    It’s completely self-paced, so you can move through it when you have the energy — and return to it as often as you need.

  • The full course is $199 USD and includes lifetime access to all modules, downloadable handouts, and any future updates or added content.

    Once you enroll, you can move through the lessons entirely at your own pace and return to them whenever you need support — there’s no expiration date or time limit.

    The goal is for this to be something you can revisit in different seasons of your life, not just a one-time course.

  • Not at all.
    This course was designed to meet you wherever you are in your experience — whether you’re newly diagnosed, actively in treatment, finished with treatment, or years out and still feeling the emotional effects.

    The emotional themes covered — anxiety, trauma, identity, grief, relationships, and meaning — are common across almost every type of cancer and stage of survivorship.

    You might connect with certain modules more than others depending on where you are right now, and that’s exactly how it’s meant to work.
    You can take what you need, skip what doesn’t fit, and come back to different parts later as things shift.

    There’s no “right” time to start this work.
    Just whenever you’re ready to feel a bit more supported and understood.

  • No — this course isn’t a substitute for therapy.
    It’s an educational and emotionally supportive resource designed to help you understand and work through common emotional experiences that come with cancer.

    While the tools and practices are informed by therapy approaches I use in my work, they aren’t meant to replace one-on-one support.
    If you’re finding that your emotions feel heavy, overwhelming, or hard to manage on your own, I strongly encourage reaching out to a licensed therapist — ideally someone familiar with oncology or trauma work.

    You can absolutely use this course alongside therapy or other forms of care.
    Many people find that it helps them process things between sessions and bring more self-awareness into their own healing.