The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden

The Healing Garden is an educational non-profit dedicated to providing a community of support to facilitate the healing process for those experiencing cancer. Our community extends to you and your family and we offer mind-body medicine, education about choices that contribute to health, methods for managing stress and for improving quality of life, and ways to regain control, both during and after treatment. Medical care focuses on your curative treatment plan and our services are supportive of that care. Our services are directed at helping you heal, a process that often involves more than medical treatments and procedures. We provide high quality, evidence-based psychological and physical support in a safe and comfortable setting. Our center is located on eight acres of lovingly created gardens on a wooded hillside in Harvard, Massachusetts. We believe that cancer results from many complex processes in the body; there is no single cause. Someone diagnosed with cancer should not be blamed or made to feel responsible for causing this disease. You are a person, not a disease, and you can live well with cancer. We are here to help you.

The mission of the Healing Garden is to provide education, individual and group support and complementary therapies without financial barriers to those touched by cancer. These services are integrated with prescribed medical treatment.