Sessions 2 and 3 focused on searching for hope and were based on the experiential process of hope. Researchers have identified that hope is tested and born in suffering and loss (Farran et al., 1995) and that suffering and grieving must be acknowledged and recognized as normal. Morse and Penrod (1999) linked hope with the concepts of enduring, uncertainty, and suffering. Serious illness, such as recurrent cancer, can severely test hope and may lead to hopelessness. Paul (1994) found that the process of rebuilding hope after the diagnosis of recurrent cancer begins with disengaging (withdrawing from others and life), reeling (feeling overwhelmed, trouble seeing clearly, a sense of losing one’s bearings), and appraising (gathering information and taking inventory of hopeful and ominous signs) the situation. Studies suggest that both hope and hopelessness may coexist (dialectic relationship) in a disease or difficulty and that both provide an opportunity for personal growth (Ersek, 1992; Paul; Wright, 1983).