Reluctant Warrior Companion Resources
These free worksheets were created to go along with Reluctant Warrior: A Memoir & Breast Cancer Emotional Survival Guide and give you a place to pause, reflect, and work through what you’re experiencing.
You can download the complete workbook below, or choose the individual worksheet you need.
No signup required. These resources are free to download, print, and use whenever you need them.
FOR BOOK CLUBS & GROUPS
Discussion questions for each chapter, for book clubs, support groups and anyone reading alongside someone else.
PDF · Free download · No signup required
ALL 12 WORKSHEETS
Want everything in one place? The Complete Companion Workbook includes all 12 worksheets from Reluctant Warrior, in the same order they appear in the book.
You can work through them from beginning to end, or simply print and use the worksheets that feel most helpful to you right now.
PDF · 12 worksheets · Free download
BROWSE BY CHAPTER
Looking for a specific exercise from the book? You can also download and print each worksheet individually.
CHAPTER ONE
Naming what happened, and stopping the habit of minimizing it.
CHAPTER TWO
Finding the fear beneath the fear, and what still matters today.
CHAPTER THREE
Seeing everything you have been carrying, and beginning to grieve it.
CHAPTER FOUR
Self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-love, one layer at a time.
CHAPTER SIX
Reclaiming your voice, with scripts and a visit prep sheet.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Building a life around symptoms that may not go away.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Finding the primary emotion beneath the reactive one.
CHAPTER NINE
Mapping who is actually there, and what you actually need.
CHAPTER TEN
Recognising the pressure that builds before the ground cracks.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Time, work and grace, noticing healing already underway.
A gentle note: These worksheets are reflective exercises, not therapy or medical care. If something brings up more than you expected, consider bringing it to someone who can sit with you in it.
ANOTHER FREE RESOURCE
Illness doesn’t only happen to the body. It can affect every part of who we are: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.
Take a few minutes to check in with yourself across all five realms and notice where you may need a little more care and support right now.
THE BOOK
These worksheets are companions to the stories, lessons, and emotional survival tools in Reluctant Warrior. The book goes deeper into what it means to live through cancer, chronic illness, and the emotional changes that don’t simply end when treatment does.