From Mary and Sarah (message from Nicola below)

UPDATE: WOW we are so thrilled and grateful to have reached the initial target. Thank you everyone! Every extra amount above enables Nicola to have more support for longer, so please do donate if you feel called to do so. X

We’re setting up this fundraiser for our dear friend Nicola Foster. If you have been lucky enough to meet her you will know what a warm, kind and wise soul she is. She is an active and much loved member of many conscious communities and has touched the lives of many throughout her years of growth and training. She very much lives a life of service, supporting couples as a therapist, offering intimacy and dating workshops, and most recently trained in Instinctive Meditation to share with the world.

In mid-2024, Nicola was caring for her father (who had advanced prostate cancer) when she was diagnosed with clear cell ovarian cancer, a rare and aggressive type. The months that followed - her Dad’s end of life followed by undergoing chemotherapy - were pretty brutal. 

In January, there was hope that the cancer was gone. But recently, Nicola has learned that it has returned — more significant, more complex, and requiring further treatment.

Beyond the emotional toll, the impact on her work as a self-employed therapist has been huge and the financial strain has been considerable. Like many in caring professions, Nicola’s income depends on her ability to work. 

Alongside NHS care, Nicola is committed to an integrative approach to support her healing - treatments that are known to enhance well-being and resilience. She has already invested her savings in mistletoe therapy, acupuncture, and supplements. With your help, she hopes to include integrative therapies such as manual lymphatic drainage massage, acupuncture, high-dose IV Vitamin C, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and mistletoe - alongside a protocol of supplements.

These treatments will help her have the best chance of living a normal life - but they all come at a cost. The supplementation protocol she is following is around £500 a month. A Hyperbaric Oxygen machine costs a similar amount to rent per month. The funds we raise will be used on these integrative therapies until, hopefully, she is well enough to be in a position to earn properly again. 

For a decade, Nicola has supported individuals and couples deeply through her intimacy therapy and workshops. Relationships have flourished, couples have got married, babies have been conceived and born. She has made a huge difference to many many lives. Before becoming a therapist, she volunteered at a hospice and helped with fundraising. In short, she has long been someone who gives generously to others.

Now, it’s our turn to support her. This is an invitation to her friends, colleagues, and anyone who feels called to contribute. Right now, financial support is the most practical and powerful way to help Nicola on her healing journey. We want Nicola’s energy focused on her body and her health - not on worrying about how to fund her care.

Every contribution makes a difference - whether small or large.

If you can, please donate and share with others. If you can’t donate, please share this anyway, as campaigns that are shared widely in the first few days have the best chance of success. 

Together we can help ease some of the strain so Nicola can focus on what matters most - her health, her healing, and her future.

With love and deep gratitude,

Mary and Sarah

P.S. Healing from cancer is a huge subject and there are many often conflicting views and ideas on treatment. It can be very confusing and overwhelming to assimilate advice and recommendations. We request that people don't comment here with advice or direct message Nicola with suggestions.

If you have a recommendation that you would like to offer. Please send it to healingfornicola [@] gmail.com - that way she can choose a good time when she feels well resourced to look at it. Thank you for your consideration and care.

A message from Nicola

Well… this definitely wasn’t on my vision board for 2025.

In 2024, I was diagnosed with clear cell ovarian cancer - a rare and particularly hard to treat form of the disease. I went through major surgery in August and follow-up chemotherapy (along with mistletoe therapy) through the autumn/winter of that year. But earlier this year (2025) I discovered that the cancer is still there and more serious now.

It’s been a lot - caring for my dad, coping with his death, and my own treatment and recovery. And while I’m trying to hold this process with as much grace as I can, one of the hardest aspects is the financial side of things. People have lots of recommendations and ideas for integrative protocols, but they all cost money - and whilst we are just able to make ends meet with day-to-day expenses, further treatments are beyond our means.

For the last decade my full time work has been as a couples and psychosexual therapist. I am reorganising the way I work so that I can continue to offer my skills and experience as and when I can. It’s important to me to be able to do this as I know how much it can help transform people’s lives. And it lights me up and gives me a deep sense of fulfilment and purpose.

I have just started chemotherapy again and I have plans for other treatment and wellbeing protocols. I also intend to get out and enjoy life when I can as well, although no swimming or events in enclosed spaces - I am too immunocompromised.

If you are in a position to offer a gift of financial support to put towards integrative treatments it’s hard to find words for how grateful I am. And if not, your love and emotional support are equally as valuable and precious to me.

With love and heartfelt gratitude,

Nicola x