With the theme Your health and healing, three definitions of healing have stood out: to restore to health; the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again; and an intensely personal, subjective experience involving a reconciliation of the meaning you ascribe to a distressing event.Â
Cancer is a physical disease which you are healed from with various treatments but there is substantially more emotional, mental, and spiritual healing that comes along with it. Our wish is that in your healing journey all of those definitions are fulfilled.
Bonni Suckling shares how Making a memory box of her deceased son, Jed, has brought her the most healing while Sindi-marie de Beer gives insight to The physical and emotional challenges of cancer treatment.
Meagan Atcheson advocates Lifestyle choices to live by and Dr Andrew Robson makes all the dog lovers’ day by sharing how they have The scent of hope.
There is so much beauty and growth when you choose to actively heal past trauma.Â
May you be gentle with yourself and find joy in your path to health and healing.Â
Laurelle Williams
Editor – Word for Word Media

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Throughout life, healing is an ever-constant, whether it be from physical disease, grief, or steering your way through life and all that it holds. Super Survivor, Jolene van Wyk, has wisdom that we all should take to heart no matter what healing we are processing.
The 2025 Big C Survivor’s Guide: How is it diagnosed? Â
This year we have focused on the diagnostic procedures of various cancers (solid tumours, blood cancers, and childhood cancers) to help you understand what tests will be done, why they are done, and which doctors are likely to do them, as well as the referral pathway. Our hope is that this will outline what you can expect.
Check out the Big C Survivor Guides
We still have The Big C Online Directory to help you find any A-Z listing of all things cancer related.