Table 2.

Themes and subthemes of how women experienced participation with other breast cancer patients in an MBSR training

Themes	Subthemes
Anticipatory fear for suffering of others	Avoidance of facing fellow patients
	Fear for negative disease course
	Identification with suffering of others
	Survivors’ guilt
Feeling (un)connected	Recognition
	Feeling accepted
	Feeling disconnected
Learning from each other	Acknowledging emotions
	De-identification with disease
	Gaining other perspectives
	Learning to cope