Prioritize Self Care

“You have given me the strength to carry on and find happiness and light.” Suzanne Cowper   Sometimes people ask me why I want to work with cancer survivors. They wonder why it [...]

“How can we pull ourselves together when we haven’t allowed ourselves to fall part?” Elizabeth Goble My husband’s cancer experience is giving me the chance to revisit how my 6 [...]

Can the cognitive side effects of cancer treatment be improved or lessened by daily meditation? This is the question we are attempting to answer by studying Kirtan Kriya, a kundalini yoga [...]

Learning that you or a loved one has cancer is a shock. Most survivors measure their lives as before and after cancer, often commemorating the day of diagnosis as their “cancerversary,” the day [...]

So you want to say no, but you don’t know how? If you are unsure whether you should make others comfortable at your own expense, read last week’s post here [...]

Do you ever feel depleted by relationships that are draining? This can be a signal to notice whether you are maintaining healthy boundaries. When you hear the word boundaries, what comes up for [...]

The cancer experience almost invariably brings discomfort. From initial diagnosis through treatment and after, physical and emotional discomfort can be a side effect. I’ve been invited to present [...]

Is interrupting always rude? Raised in Texas to have good manners, I learned never to interrupt, to be a good listener and to make a lot of space for others. But having survived cancer and hit [...]

Having cancer is an intensely personal experience. As a woman in the JoyBoots Sanctuary Community recently said, confronting cancer has been “the most intimate and personal experience I’ve ever [...]

First things first. After you have cancer, you begin to re-think your priorities in life. Which relationships are most important? How do you want to spend your free time? What has been left [...]