For people navigating life during and 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. A practical workbook for finding your way through the emotional aftermath of cancer and figuring out who you are now.
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 therapist and breast cancer survivor, this workbook blends real cancer experience with the clinical tools used in session. The actual work without the fluff of generic prompts or affirmations.
And yes, humor. The kind that only makes sense when you've been through 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 Workbook
Who This Is For
Whether you are in active treatment, navigating remission, facing recurrence, or living with metastatic disease. Whether the bell has rung or may never come. This workbook meets you where you are, not where you think you should be.
Oncology social workers, therapists, chaplains, nurses, and patient advocates looking for a resource that goes beyond the clinical. Something to offer that actually meets the emotional reality of a cancer diagnosis.
When you don't know what to say or how to help, this is something you can give. A meaningful, honest gift that says I see how hard this is and I want to support you through it.
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.
Jena sees clients through her private practice, Transitions KC.