When "just stay positive" isn't working.
Evidence-based tools to help cancer patients and survivors manage fear, stop racing thoughts, and feel more in control — without toxic positivity or empty reassurance.
I'm Laine Lipsky — a certified empowerment coach and 3-time cancer survivor, including a stage 4 diagnosis. I developed these tools to get myself through it. Then I shared them with other cancer patients and survivors, and watched them work.
My background includes a Master's in Teaching from Brown University, and decades as an empowerment coach supporting people through the hardest seasons of their lives. But my real qualification for this work? I've lived it.
I know this to be true: mental toughness isn't something you either have or you don't. It's something you can learn, even in the hardest moments.
Anytime I get in my head and start to focus on the negative, I can take a moment, redirect my thoughts, and be a more reassuring person to myself, just like I would be to somebody else in my life. It's something I feel is going to be easy to apply and can really help me when I'm starting to spiral into a negative place.
— Anna, Mental Toughness Program participant
Coming Soon
I'm currently building The Mental Toughness Program for Cancer Patients and Survivors — a self-paced course built around the essential tools I used to navigate my own diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
Get on the waitlist and I'll send you Managing Fear, Overwhelm and Racing Thoughts — a free guide for cancer patients and survivors — while you wait for the course to open.
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