(WXYZ) - Barbara Coslow learned she had breast cancer after a routine mammogram. The diagnosis was frightening. The treatment was grueling. But the end of medical therapy was not the start of good times.
She told us, I felt like I was in a vacuum. Unless somebody’s been thru it they don’t understand, and I certainly never wanted to be a whiner complaining about things, but I thought what now.
Then Barbara stumbled onto a program called Silver Linings. It’s run by Dr. Ruth Lerman, a high risk breast specialist at Beaumont Hospital
Silver Linings is a program for women who have completed cancer treatment and are looking to find their new normal.
The 8 week program involves things like yoga, meditation, journaling… and learning to listen to other women who have gone through similar situations.
According to Dr. Lerman, “As time goes by the sharing becomes more and more intimate and people listen in a way we don’t get listened to most times in life.”
Cancer survivors are almost like soldiers coming home from battle. And the Silver Linings program helps them ease back into their civilian lives – with a different perspective.
Dr. Lerman says this is an opportunity for cancer survivors to be with other people who’ve been there and know some of what they’ve been through and to get tools that can allow them to re-enter the world and be able to feel a part of it again.
That’s exactly what it did for Barbara, “I realized that every woman as they told their story was on a different journey and I saw the many faces of cancer recovery , women in different stages of the journey and how it helped me determine my path.”
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