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How To Support Your Mum Through A Cancer Journey

Supporting your Mum through cancer

  • 16/08/2023

What to do if your Mum has cancer: a practical guide to supporting her journey    Carina Gallegos is our Support Angel and Customer Love Manager at Support Crew. Carina explores the challenge and heavy emotions that occur when your Mum is diagnosed with cancer, and how to love and support her during that incredibly difficult time.  Dealing with the…

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Supporting a colleague through cancer

  • 07/08/2023

What to do if your work colleague has cancer: navigating support and empathy    Carina Gallegos is the Support Angel and Customer Love Manager at Support Crew. Carina explores the challenge of supporting a work colleague through cancer and how to navigate supporting them with some practical tips on how to make sure they get the right help at the…

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Why Is Asking For Help So Difficult?

Why asking for help is difficult

  • 26/07/2023

The struggle with seeking help: unraveling the mystery behind why it's so difficult  Kelly Banks is the Co-founder of Support Crew, along with her good buddy Janine Williams.  Kelly explores overcoming the struggle of seeking help - unraveling the psychology behind it and discovering the strength in vulnerability. Life can be a rollercoaster ride, filled with highs and lows, but…

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Five ways to help a friend without waiting to be asked

  • 30/05/2023

Five ways to help a friend without waiting to be asked. The problem with “Let me know what I can do to help” Written by Kara Dorset, our great friend and copywriter extraordinaire. Kara is an incredible Mum of two gorgeous girls and speaks from her own experience. Thank you Kara, this will help so many people who are part…

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5 handy tips for supporting a friend with cancer

  • 11/04/2023

5 tips to help you support someone dealing with cancer Written by Rebecca van Dijk Rebecca van Dijk is a beautiful 33-year-old woman who was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer last year. You can read about her incredible journey thus far here, and how naming her cancer gave her a way to seperate herself from it. Rebecca has come to know our…

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Support Crew: Kelly And Randal

Let’s not die from embarrassment

  • 14/06/2022

Let's not die from embarrassment  Kelly Banks is the Co-founder of Support Crew, along with her good buddy Janine Williams.  Kelly reflects on the time leading up to her partner Randal's diagnosis with stage 4 bowel cancer and how talking about the embarrassing things and not settling until you find an answer could have helped Randal be diagnosed earlier.   Kelly…

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Why adequate is awesome!

  • 18/02/2022

Why adequate is awesome!  Kelly Banks is the Co-founder of Support Crew, along with her good buddy Janine Williams.  Kelly explores how when we are supporting someone we love who's going through a difficult time we can become unnecessarily paralysed by the fear of doing the wrong thing. Have you ever found yourself wanting to support someone going through a…

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Resilience

Louise Thompson: Resilience

  • 16/02/2021

Louise Thompson: how to be more resilient Louise Thompson is a life coach, author, yoga teacher, NZ Herald columnist, keynote speaker and TV and radio personality and an extraordinarily inspirational woman. In the first of this two part series, Louise helps us explore how learning how to be resilient can help us cope with difficult, stressful or life changing situations. Resilience is about…

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Support Crew is an online support platform that helps those dealing with life changing events to easily co-ordinate the meals and support they need from their support network.

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