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In The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, Frank Ostaseski, the co-founder of the Zen Hospice Center, shares what he has learned through his work with people [...]

We’re living from one day to the next with additional layers of stress, worry and anxiety. Things may feel overwhelming, out of control and uncertain. Learning to be okay in the present [...]

Last year, I collaborated with Ashley Henneghan, NP, PhD, to test the impact of Kirtan Kriya )mantra meditation) on chemobrain and I shared this article detailing the research with you last week. [...]

As humans, we all face physical limitations related to being mortal and facing our own mortality is a realization that brings all kinds of feelings – fear, grief, anger, denial, acceptance. But [...]

“Everyone experiences fragmentation.  But not everyone knows how to re-integrate and heal.” Dr. Gurucharan Singh Khalsa   In the midst of treatment for cancer, I looked in the [...]

The Yoga & Talk series features Joybooter stories and words of encouragement to nurture, heal and inspire— and in doing so, helps us to get to know one another, stay connected and to remind [...]

Do you get frustrated with physical changes or limitations after treatment for cancer? Do “limitations” leave you feeling diminished? As humans, we all face physical limitations related to being [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]