The Second Trail

You’ve made it through treatment,

but the cancer experience doesn’t end when the medical care does.

A second trail lies ahead.

One filled with questions about health, quality of life,

shifting values, priorities, identity, purpose, and how

to rebuild a life that makes sense for who you are now.

You might be asking:

"How do I rebuild my health?

Who am I now? What do I want from life?

How do I move forward with meaning and confidence?”

That’s why the Second Trail is here...

to help you navigate what comes next.

Imagine living your best life a year from now.

Here is where you can make that happen.

This Is Your Second Trail

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’s 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’s a place to learn, practice, and get busy building a life that makes sense to you.”

“We’re not here to help you ‘get back to normal.’ We’re here to help you create what’s next... something that feels more aligned, more alive, more 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’s 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 recovery
Reduced hospitalizations
Lower recurrence rates
Longer survival
Higher quality of life
Increased health and well-being
Easier management of life challenges

That’s why we’ve 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 ➝

Here, you’re not just surviving, you’re 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 & 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 grow and thrive.

What This Community Is Not

This space is intentionally different from what most survivorship resources offer. Here’s 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’ll 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’re here to help you discover what’s next and make it achievable and meaningful.

Why This Matters

Most cancer survivors are left with two options after treatment: support groups that address the emotional impact of the cancer experience but don't support the active process of rebuilding their lives, or static content that feels disconnected from the lived experience.

The Second Trail fills the gap in post-treatment care.

We blend science-backed coaching practices and life-management skills development with a compassionate community, helping survivors manage the challenges of this journey and take real steps toward rebuilding their lives.

This isn’t about merely surviving.

It’s about thriving.

What Members Are Saying

“I didn’t even know what I needed until I found this space. It’s not just support... it’s clarity, it’s hope, it’s direction. It's a step-at-at-time action that matters!”
— Survivor

“I’ve never felt more seen, or more empowered, in my survivorship.”
— Member

Who This Is For

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

You’ve completed cancer treatment
You’re asking, “Now what?”
You want more than just getting by. You want to grow and thrive.
You’re ready to reconnect with your life, filled with purpose, identity, and joy.
You’re seeking engaged, not passive, healing, and growth.
You're 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’m 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 and Chinese medicine practitioner, and a certified integrative cancer coach, I’ve 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’s 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’s 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’s 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’s 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.

The Second Trail™ and the Life Navigation Framework™ for Cancer Survivorship and all related content, including but not limited to written materials, community structures, course structures, experiential exercises, and program language, are the intellectual property of Wayne Mylin, and protected by copyright and trademark law. No portion may be copied, reproduced, distributed, or adapted in any form without express written permission from Wayne Mylin. Joining this community implies agreement to our Terms of Use & Community Agreement.

The Second Trail Terms of Use and Community Agreement.pdf

"Your second life is the one you create when you realize you only have one."

Welcome to The Second Trail

Navigating Your Life After Cancer