13 years ago, with your help, I’ve learned to become the leader of my life. By accepting the painful facts I now understand their meaning and find the strength to carry on.
Now I manage to feel good and take the best out of everything that happens to me.

Lucia (office worker)


For four years, following my breast surgery, I resisted the impulse of seeking your help.
In the meantime I gave up my profession as a physician to be only a mother and a wife.
What made me decide to come and get to know you was the determination to give a change of direction to my thoughts and meaning to my life.
I succeeded! The work in the “Replanning one’s life” and “Deciding to Live” groups provided me with stimulating elements to mobilise new energies.
In a short while I began to find new motivations, and ultimately I rediscovered the desire and the pleasure of being a doctor.
Many years have passed since then, my children have grown... and so have I.
Now I hope to find the time to complete my work with you in the “Affection Therapy” group as well.

Ines (physician)

“...After attending the groups of Attivecomeprima, to my great joy I began to feel that something was changing inside me. My days went back to being rich with interests, with the desire to organise new projects, my tomorrows had a meaning of life. But I felt something deeper, the desire to do something for others, especially in view of the terrible moments that I had gone through. This joy of giving led to the formation in my city of “Associazione Donna”. It is a non-for-profit association that proposes to help women who have had breast surgery... We are messengers of faith, of hope. The hope that a woman who had the same experience can transmit.”

Germana (housewife)


“...This is the core of my experience: having met the right people at the right time was crucial; it would all have been harder if I hadn’t had this opportunity... The experience with people who were able to teach me the importance of being “doctor” of my life, too...
The inner change put my illness into perspective... and this took away the fear. From this point of view I feel I can say I have defeated cancer.”

Agnese (translator)