Counselling

Coming to terms with cervical cancer can lead to a range  of conflicting emotions. Some people find talking to someone, who is not emotionally involved with the situation, can help.

Talking to a trained counsellor may help you develop the mental and physical strengths to remain positive and cope better through your cancer journey.

The articles in this section are written by members of our medical panel and attempt to cover some of these issues. The first, an article entitled Positive Thinking, is written by Lorna Chorley who counselled Jo during her illness and extols the virtues, as the title would suggest, of approaching the illness with a positive mental attitude.

The second article offers advice on helping children cope with the loss of a loved one What Shall we Tell the Children? was written by Jo's sister, Tessa Wilkinson, a former lecturer on loss and bereavement who for many years worked at the Bereavement Care Hospice in Leeds. Tessa retired in 2003 but she was held in high regard by colleagues and patients as an effective and experienced counsellor.

Let's Meet is a forum for support, which hundreds of women use from all over the world. It has become a community of people who support each other so please consider it, if only initially to read some of the messages that they send to each other. Everyone who posts on Let's Meet has been touched by an aspect of pre-cancer or cervical cancer so will understand what you are going through - we are here to help.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Last Updated: 26 Sep 2007

 
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Pamela Morton's interview - BBC Breakfast News

'Be cervix savvy'
Cervical screening advertisement produced by Camden PCT and Jo's Trust

Phone Counseling Helpful After Cervical Cancer

Women who give up smoking can reverse health hazards
Strictly star Zoe Ball shows her support - Worthing Herald

Cervical cancer screening - Woman's Weekly

Anti cancer vaccine is just the jab - Coventry Telegraph