For anyone navigating life with or after cancer
The Journey Inward
Nobody prepares you for what comes after the bell. And nobody prepares you for when the bell doesn't come at all. This workbook was created for all of it.
Navigating a body that feels unfamiliar, an identity that has shifted, and a life that no longer fits the way it used to. Recentering After Cancer was created for this. Whatever this looks like for you.
Written by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and breast cancer survivor, this workbook blends evidence-based therapeutic tools with lived experience and, yes, humor. Because sometimes lemon water and turmeric smoothies just aren't going to cut it.
This is not a book about cancer being a gift. It is a book about the work of coming back to yourself, whenever you're ready.
Inside the Book
Reconnecting with your intuition and learning to trust yourself again after everything you've been through.
A deep dive into your values, figuring out what actually matters to you now, not who you were before diagnosis.
Rethinking boundaries, people-pleasing, and what it means to finally put yourself first without the guilt spiral.
An honest look at the mental health impact of cancer and what it actually feels like to navigate it.
Practical coping skills for the hard days. Tools that actually work when you need them most.
Navigating the complicated relationship with a body that has changed, and finding your way back to it.
Grief after cancer is real and it is layered. This chapter gives it the space it deserves.
The conversation nobody wants to have and everybody needs. Meeting your mortality with honesty and intention.
An art therapy chapter using creative expression to move through grief, change, and the seasons of recovery.
The Book
Front Cover
Back Cover
"I'm not going to write some inspirational garbage about cancer being a gift. However, cancer did present me with a path toward recentering, and that process is what I want to share."Jena Fouraker, LCSW, CAGCS, EOLD
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In August 2020, Jena was on the roster for orientation at the Mizzou School of Social Work PhD program. Then her first mammogram stopped everything. What followed was five months of chemo, a bilateral mastectomy, 20 rounds of radiation through a clinical trial, 12 months of targeted infusion therapy, reconstruction, and a third surgery.
She rang the bell in August 2021 and expected to feel like herself again. Instead, she felt like a stranger. This workbook is everything she had to figure out on her own.
Jena brings over a decade of clinical experience as a licensed therapist, a background in evidence-based frameworks, and zero patience for the idea that you should just feel grateful to be alive and get on with it.
She wrote this workbook because she needed it and it didn't exist. Now it does.