“The only journey is the journey within.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“Whether good or bad, life changing situations often give people a chance to grow, learn and appreciate what’s important to them. Many people with cancer describe their experience as a journey. It’s not necessarily a journey they would …
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha
Lately I’ve been talking to parents who’ve been diagnosed with cancer and are looking at how to talk with their children. The ages of these kids range from 3 years to 35 years. As …
The black angel bending over me in the darkness of the cold, stark hospital room is the last to tend to me. Through an anesthesia haze I see the feathers of her wings lightly waving as she alights beside me. Her wingspan touches the bare walls enclosing me while I …
“You are what you think … geez, that’s frightening.” Lily Tomlin
From the moment you are told that you have cancer, that the biopsy was positive, that those shadows in the MRI were malignant, that the scan “lit up” with the colors of disease, your breath sucks in and stays …
I wrote the following post after attending a conference in 2015. Today, three years later, as we face numerous serious challenges to our rights as women, I thought to share it again. It is a travesty that we should have to fight so fiercely for our health care, but we …
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” Nikos Kazantzakis
Living with uncertainty is one of the major concerns we face as cancer survivors. I’ve seen this turn up on every survey given to cancer patients and listened to survivors talk about …
“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll
I wanted to share some articles and a video from The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship that speak to the long term issues of cancer survivorship.
For those of us who are …
October 3, 2018
Day 3 of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
While there is a growing awareness of the needs of cancer survivors, it seems to me that we could simplify the entire process by one important question … “how are you?” The next step, which is not as …
This post is from 2015 when I attended the Internation Psycho-Oncology/American Psychosocial Oncology World Conference in Washington, DC. Three years later we continue to face serious disparities in health care. This post is dedicated to women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer who are from communities that …
October 1 – October 31
To kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month I want to share Serena Williams’ courageous video reminding us to perform our own breast exams every month.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2018/10/01/serena-williams-breast-cancer-awareness-month-video/1485818002 …
