Come join us as we renew our use of the Healing Arts Room at the Dorothy S. O’Brien Center! The Open Studio Process allows for creative exploration in parallel with others and includes three simple steps: 1) setting an intention, 2) art-making, and 3) witnessing what we create. During each Open Studio session, the first...
The first thing you notice about Alison Eckels is her mega-watt smile. To call her energetic is a massive understatement. Alison has been involved with Cancer Lifeline for many years, first in 2006 by attending Collage classes and Healthy Steps. She learned about the Writing for the Moment class in 2012 and sat patiently on...
Grief Dialogues: The Book is a collection of stories on love and loss by 61 authors. Founded on the belief that death and grief are great equalizers transcending race, creed, ethnicity, gender, age, and economics, The Grief Dialogues brings people together to combat grief and begin healing conversations. The evening starts with a live performance of...
Starting this Fall, Cancer Lifeline will be hosting expressive arts therapist in-training, Pamela Krueger, who will offer up to six fee-free sessions at our Dorothy O’Brien Center. These sessions with Pamela will take place in our Healing Arts Room and are available to individuals, couples, families, and groups. We plan to pilot this natural extension...
Pamela Krueger, Cancer Lifeline’s resident expressive-arts-therapist in training, has always loved creative writing, starting with neighborhood marionette playwriting in childhood and, as she grew, often venturing into poetic interludes for solace and the insights the process of writing delivered. When her eldest son was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood leukemia, she turned to...
Cancer Lifeline will be participating in the upcoming annual Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference on Wednesday, August 7 from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm at the University of Puget Sound. The Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference is an annual event to support and celebrate the community of cancer patients and survivors in the South Sound....
On May 8th we celebrated our volunteer Helen McDuffie with pizza lunch and an award. Helen is retiring as an active volunteer on the Lifeline, a role she had held for over 20 years! “I’m definitely old school,” says the 85-year-old former high school counselor. “I believe in the power of one-to-one conversations. It’s very...
On Friday, April 26, Cancer Lifeline held our annual Volunteer Appreciation celebration with 45 volunteers, friends and family. Four awards were presented to volunteers who have gone above and beyond to further our work. The Shirley Utevsky Volunteer of the Year Award made to a direct service volunteer who gave generously whenever there was a...
Nicole joined Cancer Lifeline’s staff in March of this year as our new Program Coordinator. We caught up with Nicole to learn more about her and her connection to Cancer Lifeline. She is pictured here (on the left) with Meghan Wilkinson Melanson at the recent Komen Community Impact event where Cancer Lifeline was presented with...
Welcome to GIVEsmall. This two-week online giving campaign is Cancer Lifeline’s attempt to ramp up attention towards GiveBig, a big deal regional online one-day of giving powered by our friends at 501 Commons. On that Wednesday, May 8 we hope to raise $15,000 and we have a $10,000 challenge which means the first $10,000 will...
