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Intimacy After Cancer

This workshop is open to Adults only, this is safe and welcoming space to all individuals and couples.

This workshop is designed to help you understand how a cancer diagnosis and treatment affects your sexual function and sense of sexuality an teach you ways to actively move toward the erotic and intimate life that you want.

Hour 1: Physical and psychological effects of diagnosis and treatment: • Learn how diagnosis and treatment affects your body image and sexual wellness. • Understand the specific ways that your sexual health is impacted by chemo, radiation, surgery and being a cancer patient or being the partner of someone with cancer. • Explore non-pharmacologic solutions to the most common sexual function changes due to cancer treatment. • Learn about resources in the community to help you navigate this part of your life.

Hour 2: Learn how to:• Expand what pleasure means to you and how it can relieve pain • Invite playfulness into learning new sexual practices and expanding your notions of what is commonly understood as sex • Communicate with partners in new ways, to help you each/both get more of what you want • Create new sexual experiences as your bodies change

Supervised Child Play can be arranged by notifying us of planned attendance. Please call 608.828.8880 to let us know how many children are planning to attend.