Reeling and Healing Midwest Blog

A great new article has been published talking about Reeling & Healing Midwest and how it helps survivors on their healing journey. Our own Ruthanne T. is quoted.
Read the full article here.

2007 was a fabulous year for Reeling and Healing Midwest.

Check out our 2007 Season Review and other retreat follow-ups. You can view photo and learn about what happened along the river banks. Follow this link to the main page and take time to check out the other links you find there.

There were so many people who gave so much of themselves for us at the retreat. I felt indulgent! What a great group! I finished radiation on the Friday prior to the retreat and then ventured to Grayling on Sunday, where I immediately felt like I was let loose from a cage. Everyone had such control of me for so many months. I finally felt free! What a way to start a new beginning, a new cancer-free life. To start it on the river was spectacular! Thanks again for all you do to make these retreats possible for so many people. God bless you always.

-Beccy M.

Thank you, thank you. Thank you for the wonderful memories. It was a wonderful time and you made it that way. I’m delighted with the photos - so many and they’re great. I’m going to show them off to friends. Can’t wait to get my rod outfit! Fish On!

-Sharon S.

EIGHT HIGHLIGHTS of HEALING

- Healing is a lifelong journey toward wholeness.

- Healing is remembering what has been forgotten about connection, and unity and interdependence among all things living and nonliving.

- Healing is embracing what is most feared.

- Healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction.

- Healing is entering into the transcendent, timeless moment when one experiences the divine.

- Healing is creativity and passion and love.

- Healing is seeking and expressing self in its fullness, its light and shadow, its male and female.

- Healing is learning to trust life.

From The Four-Fold Ways

In the presence of women - I feel at home, comfortable,relaxed

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In the presence of women - I see foreheads soften, smiles widen, eyes glisten, hearts soar and souls touch

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In the presence of women - words of wisdom tumble, laughter is unleashed, creativity exudes

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In the presence of women - I can smell muffins baking, coffee brewing and sweet perfume

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In the presence of women - wrinkles are beautiful, soft tummies acceptable, laughlines delightful

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In the presence of women - breezes are gentler, colors are brighter, friendship is magical, flowers dance and the sun shines

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So sit often, in the presence of women

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-Tess Marshall

And this Queen did wear them when she fished in her waders and waxed Barbour coat.

After H&R Block co-founder and lung cancer survivor Richard Bloch was declared cancer-free in 1978, he wanted to reach out and give back to help newly diagnosed survivors and those struggling with their diagnosis. Thus his foundation came alive and he began reaching out to comfort, guide, educate and more.

The foundation’s website is simple and filled with letters and articles from Block, important links for survivors and caregivers and how you can help educate and promote advocacy too. Visit www.blochcancer.org to learn more and perhaps be inspired by Richard’s story and words of positive attitude and walking the road to recovery and beyond.

THE GROUP ROOM is a live, call-in radio talk show that brings together thousands of people across the country to talk, teach, learn and speak about th cancer experience.

The show airs on Sundays and is produced by Vital Options International.�� Visit www.vitaloptions.org to view stations near you that broadcast this show. You may listen online or by radio.

Reeling & Healing Midwest is proud to participate at these event and encourages our participants, volunteers and supporters to join or create a Reeling & Healing Team in their area.�� Visit the American Cancer Society���s website for more details on these events.

• April 18, 2008
  University of Illinois
  Spring Arbor, MI
• May 9, 2008
  Lenawee Northeast
• May 17, 2008
  Champaign County, IL
• May 23, 2008
  Northern Kane County
• June 6, 2008
  South McHenry County
• June 13, 2008
  Elgin Community College
  Hillsdale, County, MI
• June 20, 2008
  LaSalle County, IL
  Branch County, MI
• June 27, 2008
  North McHenry County, IL
• August 1, 2008
  Jackson, MI
• August 8, 2008
  Lenawee Central