I was invited to visit and tour the The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden at 145 Bolton Rd, Harvard, Mass for lunch today--an 18 minute drive from Leominster.
The Healing Garden has a beautiful, relaxing vibe which compliments their focus of cancer healing support with a holistic, integrative treatment approach.
Meg (left) the Executive Director and Maddie (right) the Development Director told me about how their nonprofit here relies on fundraising, grants and private donations for providing cancer treatment services to a wide range of people from 165 cities and towns in the Commonwealth.
They offer services on a 'sliding scale' to serve a wide socioeconomic range of patients---as so many in long term treatment end up exhausting their savings.
Art therapy and group therapy looked like a large part of programs offered...and the works surrounding were very calming and serene.
They told me how the Sentinel & Enterprise did a cover story about their Sunday Walk&Ride fundraiser and a Fitchburg couple already came by to inquire about services <3
Here is the article:
https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2019/09/30/perennial-walk-and-ride-to-benefit-virginia-thurston-healing-garden-cancer-support-center/
They were interested to come to Fitchburg and do a discussion on Discussing Fitchburg Now on FATV on the benefits of adding integrative & holistic cancer treatments and support to traditional therapies.
