Hands 4 Wellbeing & 'Focus on Emotions'

13/10/2025

Today marks Secondary (Metastatic) Breast Cancer Awareness Day - so please share and spread the word. While most breast cancers don’t come back after treatment, it’s important to know the signs and symptoms in case they do.

Speak to your GP or breast care nurse if you have any new symptoms that:
✅Are new or unusual for you
✅Don't have an obvious cause
✅Don't go away

11/10/2025

What a lovely afternoon delivering my presentation 'Letting Photographs Tell Their Stories' for Pink Sisters and Misters at their first ever 'Let's Talk Cancer' event. We were joined today by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Stoke on Trent they were both really interested in all the work Pink Sisters are doing in the area and were very complementary about my presentation. If you would like to book a presentation please send a message - this is suitable for cancer support groups, health care professionals, within the work place, WI, camera clubs etc etc. face to face and online

08/10/2025

On Saturday I'm delighted to be one of the guest speakers at this event. This is open to everyone and there will be lots of interesting information available throughout the day. I'll be giving my 'Letting Photographs Tell Their Stories' presentation around 1pm the cafe at the Floral Hall will also open. Why not come and join us!! 😊

03/10/2025

I am delighted to be a guest speaker at the event. If you wish to hear my talk I'm on at 1pm

Come along to our first awareness open day - everyone is welcome!

Free entry, indoors and the cafe will be open. There will be lots of advice and support available.

"Together We Are Stronger"

03/10/2025

We know its October, we know its Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it is such an important month for raising awareness but we also know that support is needed for anyone with any kind of cancer so here is a list of our face to face support groups for this month. We will still be promoting awareness as part of this months push to check yourselves so please share far and wide.

So we start today with our first face to face meeting of the month later today at the Dougie Mac Wellbeing Centre from 1.30pm - 3pm

Tuesday 7th October - Newcastle Community Fire Station, Knutton Lane, ST5 2SL from 5.30pm-7.30pm

Monday 13th October - Bridge Centre, Birches Head Road, ST2 8DD from 6.30pm-8.30pm

Tuesday 14th October - Daisy Bank House, Leek Road, Cheadle, ST10 1JE from 5.30pm-7.30pm

Friday 17th October - Meir Primary Care Centre, Weston Road, Meir ST3 6AB from 10am-12pm

Monday 20th October - Salvation Army, Salisbury Street, Leek, ST13 5EE from 6.30pm-8.30pm

Thursday 30th October - Kidsgrove Town Hall, Liverpool Road, Kidsgrove ST7 4EL from 6.30pm-8.30pm

Anyone with any cancer is welcome and if you are feeling anxious about coming for the first time, bring your partner or friend for moral support (they also might need some support too).

Refreshments are also provided so please come along for a chat and meet others who know how you are feeling, what you are or have gone through and can help and support through what we know is one of the most traumatic times you can experience.

"Together We Are Stronger"

03/10/2025

01/10/2025

06/09/2025

Diane Leopard (Left) receiving her prize at today's District 1210 conference from District Governor, Cressida Dickens. Diane's photo, entitled "Winter's Day on the Caldon Canal", features on the front page of a high quality calendar proudly produced by the Rotary Clubs of Newcastle-under-Lyme and being sold, with all proceeds going to fund vital hospice services provided by Dougie Mac .
International in Great Britain & Ireland
Buy your copy at https://dougiemac.org.uk/product/2026-calendar/

28/08/2025

Our speaker this year for our 55th Wade Lecture is Professor David Hatch (Whizzo) - From Doctor to Magician.
Professor David Hatch's title for the lecture is 'From Medicine to Magic'
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Tickets £5
To book tickets contact us on
01782 714888
or
info@wadeconferencecentre.co.uk

28/08/2025

🚨 Breaking science news 🚨

Our scientists have proven that exercise can help reduce the risk of colon cancer coming back.

This trial followed patients after they finished treatment, and gave three years of tailored fitness coaching to help them meet their exercise goals.

These weekly classes were specifically adapted to each person, giving the patients freedom to choose everything from brisk walks to cycling, swimming and beyond.

For 69-year-old-Margaret, it was transformative: “I’d never exercised before, but now I’m stronger, fitter, and my anxiety is better."

While the link between exercise and wellbeing has been known for a long time, this is a discovery that will help to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of people following bowel cancer treatment even more than previously thought.

Amazing work from everyone involved 🌟

08/08/2025

💖 Love Your Cervix – Get Informed, Get Screened

Cervical screening saves lives – yet many people delay or avoid their smear test due to fear, myths, or embarrassment.

🌸 Let’s break the stigma and talk honestly about cervical health.

📌 Bust the common myths about cervical screening:
https://ow.ly/BAq850WzrkG

🩺 Understand what to expect from your smear test:
https://ow.ly/7jiZ50WzrkJ

✨ Your body, your health – show your cervix some love.

04/02/2025

Today is World Cancer Day and I would like to share this link to a blog I wrote about my photographic project which uses non- clinic photographs to describe the emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis. If you would like further details or wish to arrange a presentation please leave me a message

Share As a complementary therapist working with cancer patients, I thought I understood cancer but nothing prepared me for the emotional impact of a diagnosis. Since then, I have taken a series of nature photographs to represent the emotional impact of cancer called ‘Focus on Emotions’. It repre...