Wayne Mylin, Certified Integrative Cancer Coach

A New Model
for Post-Treatment Cancer Survivorship
Introducing
The Second Trail
A Life Navigation Community
for Cancer Survivors

The end of treatment isn’t the end of the journey. It is the beginning of a complex and often overwhelming new chapter. Too many survivors leave medical care ready to move forward … but without the structure, support, or tools to do it well.

That is why I created The Second Trail, an evidence-based, professionally-guided, peer-supported, community-based model of care that helps survivors navigate life after cancer with clarity, intention, and confidence.

This isn’t just another support group. It is the next level of care for addressing the post-treatment survivorship program gap for those survivors who are ready to move forward with their lives.

It is a structured platform rooted in evidence-based life navigation skills, designed to complement conventional care, and extend the support that patients need once treatment ends.

What Survivors Will Find Inside The Second Trail:

• The Life Navigation FrameworkTM for Cancer Survivorship
  A unique survivorship program framework that blends peer-to-peer community, integrative cancer coaching, a positive psychology-based approach to fostering life navigation skills, and an experiential program for applying those skills to the real-life challenges faced by many post-treatment survivors.

• Expert-led Masterclasses
  Resilience, emotional intelligence, strengths, values, purpose, goal-setting, and more

• Small Group Coaching
  Practical support and tools for setting, achieving, and maintaining lifestyle and wellness goals

• A Warm and Supportive Peer Community
  Survivors walking a similar path sharing their group wisdom, guided by professional facilitation

• Special Interest Groups + Resources
  On identity, relationships, energy management, and more

• 12-month Life Navigation Orienteering Program
  Focused on the most common real-life challenges faced by post-treatment survivors, this experiential program practices real-time application of learned life skills to those challenges.

The Second Trail is a community for cancer survivors who are ready to move beyond the cancer experience and begin creating their best lives.
Together, we explore what it means to live well after treatment … reclaiming our strength, health, values, purpose, meaning, and joy.

Through engaged community, experiential programs, guided courses, and group coaching, we support one another in making sense of what has changed, tending to what still hurts, and creating lives that feel whole, empowered, and deeply our own.

This isn’t just a place to talk.
It is a place to learn, practice,
and get busy building a life
that makes sense to you.

What Are Life Navigation Skills And Why Do They Matter?

After cancer treatment, many survivors are left wondering: Now what?
The answer isn’t found in more appointments, more medications, or more waiting. It is found in learning how to navigate life in a new way, on your terms.

At The Second Trail, everything we offer is grounded in Life Navigation Skills — a powerful set of evidence-based tools that help survivors rebuild their lives with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Life Navigation Skills include:
Emotional awareness and regulation
Resilience and stress recovery
Mindfulness and presence
Values alignment
Strengths-based living
Life domains balancing
Self-Acceptance
Healthy relationships and communication
Motivation and goal setting

These aren’t just feel-good practices. Research shows that cancer patients and survivors who build these skills experience:
Fewer symptoms and side effects
Better response to treatment
Faster and easier recover
Reduced hospitalizations
Lower recurrence rates
Longer survival
Higher quality of life
Increased health and well-being
Easier management of life challenges

That is why we have made Life Navigation Skills the foundation of our programs, events, and community experiences. These skills are teachable, learnable, and transformational — especially in the hands of someone ready to live well after cancer.

Want to see the science behind this approach?
A growing body of research indicates that community and coaching programs focused on life skills, resilience, and goal-setting can significantly enhance the quality of life, health outcomes, and emotional well-being for cancer survivors.
Read the research listing here ➝

You are not just surviving. You are becoming a skilled navigator of your life.
Every conversation, course, and connection in this community is designed to help you build the inner and outer tools to thrive in your Second Journey.

How We Help You Apply These Skills
Peer connection with fellow survivors who “get it”
Monthly themes and experiential practices built on the second trail challenges that you can apply in real life
Life Navigation courses based on positive psychology and mindfulness principles
Live sessions, discussion circles, and resources to keep you moving forward
Group coaching experiences

Each offering is designed to help you not just cope, but to grow and thrive.

What This Community Is Not
This space is intentionally different from what most survivorship resources offer.
Here is what we aren’t and why that matters:

Not a support group
We are a safe space where we develop skills, set goals, and take action to move our lives forward.

Not a passive content library
Our offerings are experiential and interactive. You will be engaged, not overwhelmed or bored by static content. We experiment with putting our learning into action.

Not about toxic positivity
We welcome and embrace the full spectrum of your experience — grief, uncertainty, anger, hope, and celebration.

Not one-size-fits-all
We offer flexible personalized pathways. You choose your pace, focus, and experiences based on what is important to you at this time.

Not a time-limited program
This is an ongoing experience that lasts as long as you need it to.

Not about “getting back to normal”
We are here to help you discover what is next and make it achievable and meaningful.

Who This Is For
This community is for you if one of these statements resonates:

• You have completed cancer treatment
• You are asking, “Now what?”
• You want more than just getting by. You want to grow and thrive.
• You are ready to reconnect with your life, filled with purpose, identity, and joy.
• You are seeking engaged, not passive, healing, and growth.
• You are ready to move forward.

Why I Created This
I had the privilege of working at the Abramson Cancer Center (Penn Medicine) for 20 years, offering shiatsu treatments and wellness programs to patients, caregivers, and staff.
I treated over 2,000 patients during those years. Again and again, I heard survivors say some version of this:

The cancer diagnosis was a wake-up call.
I am ready to make some changes in my life …
but I don’t know what to do or how to do it,
and I struggle to follow through with any of the goals I set.
I feel stuck.

That insight never left me.

As a mental health professional with 30 years of experience, a shiatsu therapist, a Chinese medicine practitioner, and a certified integrative cancer coach, I have seen just how often people are left without the tools and support they need to heal and thrive once treatment ends. There is a gap in supportive cancer care, and I aim to help fill it.

That is why I trained as an integrative cancer coach and created The Second Trail, a life navigation community designed specifically for cancer survivors who are ready to move forward and rebuild but may lack the necessary confidence, skills, clarity, support, and guidance.

This isn’t a support group. It is a safe and supportive space to learn new skills, connect with who you are now, and build a life that makes sense and feels true, surrounded by others who understand your experience.

There is a Second Trail after cancer. You don’t have to walk it alone. Let’s get started.

— Wayne Mylin, The Second Trail Founder

One Final Thought…
You made it through treatment.
Now it is time to build a life that works for you.
The Second Trail is here to help you navigate what’s next.

Ready? Join us. We’ll walk with you.
The Second Trail is a My Best Life Coaching LLC community.

Questions? Interest in collaborating?
Reach out … [email protected]

This survivorship program is the culmination of my life’s work. For 20 years, I listened closely as cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers shared what they most needed and wanted during and after the cancer experience. For many cancer survivors, it is not about “getting back to normal,” but creating a life that reflects who they are now and aligns with their new priorities and values. It is about establishing healthy lifestyle habits or managing long-term symptoms.

The Second Trail offers a new model for survivorship care, one that is aligned, actionable, accessible, and affordable. It is survivorship care that fills a significant gap.

If you have questions or would like to explore how The Second Trail complements your survivorship program needs, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Thank you for your continued dedication to your patients’ healing and wholeness.

Warmly,
Wayne Mylin
Certified Integrative Cancer Coach
Founder, The Second Trail
[email protected]
www.mybestlifecoaching.com
https://the-second-trail.mn.co