Pat’s Story: From Fearful to Fearless!
When Pat joined Maple Tree, she was three months post treatment for Stage IVB Cervical Cancer. Cancer had taken a lot from her. She had almost completely lost all sense of balance and relied on a wheelchair or cane to [...]
Exercise brings spark back to a 3 year old cancer survivor!
September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness month. You may have already seen “Go Gold” posts popping up all around social media in honor of this special month. But if we are being honest, we will admit that pediatric cancer is not something [...]
Alternatives to Emotional Eating
I’ve never considered myself someone who ate my feelings. I always thought I had too much self discipline – too much will power – to do that. After all, I have dedicated my life to teaching people how to embrace [...]
Introductions! This is what we do at Maple Tree!
For the blog post today, I decided to go back to the basics. Just what is Maple Tree? What are we all about? Many of you have been with us since the very beginning, and you already know the answer [...]
Choosing Faith Over Fear
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog all about how we were in a season of mourning at Maple Tree. At the time, we had three patients who had recently lost their battles with cancer. We were taking it pretty hard. [...]
Patient Spotlight: His Doctors Thought His Brain Tumor Had Ended His Life.
The following is a patient spotlight testimonial written by Matt Stemley, an Exercise Oncology Instructor at Maple Tree, about one of his inspiring patients at Maple Tree: Cancer is ruthless....it has no emotion...it doesn't care how you feel on any given day. [...]