Reclaiming Pleasure After Cancer Treatment
- Kirsty
- Jun 26
- 2 min read
After cancer treatment, your relationship with pleasure - physical, emotional, sensual - can shift in unexpected ways. And that’s okay.
Learn how to reclaim pleasure after cancer treatment with our expert guide
Pleasure is a topic that’s often left unspoken in discussion around cancer and it's treatment, but it’s an important part of life after cancer.
A 4-Minute Guide for Reclaiming Pleasure
Carmel Cardona, doctoral researcher at King’s College London, shares key insights to help you begin reconnecting with pleasure in all its forms after cancer treatment.
This video is for anyone who has experienced cancer and is curious about rebuilding a sense of joy, connection, and embodiment as part of life after treatment.
What You'll Learn in This Video:
What is pleasure and how do we experience it after cancer?
The fundamental principles of pleasure
How cancer can impact your ability to feel pleasure
How to tune into all your senses to rediscover enjoyment
Using body mapping and intention setting to reclaim pleasure
Whether it’s discovering pleasure through nature, food, touch, intimacy or creativity, this guide offers compassionate, practical suggestions for nurturing pleasure as a practice.
"Pleasure, in its broadest sense, encompasses joy, delight, happiness, and is strongly linked to individual and collective wellbeing. We can experience pleasure via all our senses, and some people even see pleasure as a practice: an ongoing effort to deepen our ability to experience pleasure” - Carmel Cardona
If you found this guide helpful, why not join one of our expert-led workshops. Designed to support you in navigating life after cancer treatment, our events offer practical tools, peer connection, and expert guidance. Check out our events.
About Our Expert:
Carmel Cardona is a doctoral researcher and facilitator from Kings College London who specialises in using creative methods to support people in remaking their sense of self after a diagnosis. She has almost finished her PhD on arts and health, and also works as a coach, trainer and workshop facilitator. She’s had two cancer diagnoses herself and brings this lived experience to her research and group work.
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For more expert workshops to help you navigate life after cancer treatment, check out the Life after Cancer events page.
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