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Here you will find useful articles filled with practical information and encouragement for your cancer journey.
Healing Begins Within: Self-Compassion and Self-Care in the Healing Process
Recovery is not a linear path; it's a journey with ups and downs, triumphs, and challenges. Embracing the journey with self-compassion and self-care allows us to find meaning in our experiences, even during the most difficult times.
Embracing Resilience: How to Cultivate Strength in the Face of Trauma
We all know that life is full of surprises, and not all are pleasant. But there is a way to help deal with life's setbacks; by developing resilience.
Moving Forward after Trauma
Just as there are many forms of hurt, there are also many ways to regain your footing as you move forward after a traumatizing event. Trauma can happen suddenly, but recovery often takes time, and sometimes … it takes a very long time.
How to Recover from Being Exhausted Beyond Exhaustion
You’re tired. You’re running full speed ahead to get everything done, but the responsibilities just keep piling on. Before you know it, tiredness turns into exhaustion.
The Healing Power of Forgiveness: How to Let Go of Resentment and Move On
Forgiveness is an art that can be learned and mastered with practice and patience. It is not a one-time event, but a lifelong skill.
Emotional Pain, the Unseen Hurt
Emotional pain is the unseen hurt because no one knows what goes on inside us. Our emotions sometimes get the best of us because they can be unpredictable and intense.
Healing: A Journey Towards Wellness
I wish I could give you the secret to how to heal quickly. Unfortunately, the process of healing is not a quick fix, but rather a staged process with an undefined timeline. The stages of healing are not like chapters in a book where once you finish it, it is over. Oftentimes the stages overlap and some stages you go through more quickly than others.
Finding Your Inner Strength: Where Healing Begins
Healing is an ongoing process. Sometimes it’s finite, such as when a broken bone heals. Once the bone heals there is nothing more to do.
Sometimes healing takes longer, like when going through cancer.
And other times the healing process seems to go on forever.
If you are going through pain and suffering, remember that you may have many areas that need healing, as well as more than one person in most cases. Here are some ways to start the healing process:
How Volunteering Helps You Heal
The challenges of life are real, and these struggles have a way of beating us down. And when you feel beaten it is difficult to get back up. Whether your struggle has been due to a long illness such as cancer, a trauma, or some other challenging life event, you may find yourself stuck and unsure how to move forward. Your present circumstance may have you feeling emotionally raw, confused, isolated. You want to move forward, but you feel so drained and broken. Let me show you how volunteering helps you heal.
How to Use Journaling as a Healing Tool
So, are you telling me that journaling will heal me?
Oh, I wish that’s all it takes, but no, journaling will not heal you.
So, then why should I bother journaling? I already feel awful, and I don’t want to go back through my high school English class just to learn how to journal. And if journaling won’t cure me then why even bother?
Learn How to Track Your Symptoms: A Step-by-Step Guide
Going through illness is exhausting. Difficult. Scary. Whether it’s a seemingly minor ailment or a more serious illness such as cancer, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. You can’t wait to improve, but day after day you wonder if you are even making progress. If only there was some way to see if you are improving or not. Well, the good news is that you can monitor your progress using this easy step-by-step guide to track your symptoms.
How to Deal with Your Fear of Discharge from Medical Care
You have been discharged because you no longer need medical care.
You feel abandoned.
Set adrift.
Scared.
Feeling this way is understandable. But the good news is that you don’t have to feel this way. Read this article to find seven ways to help you deal with your fear of being discharged from medical care.
4 Heartfelt Healing Quotes To Encourage You
We all want to be healed.
But what must happen before we can be healed?
To be healed, something must first be broken.
As you make that arduous journey, let me offer you 4 heartfelt healing quotes to encourage you.
Thankful, Grateful, Blessed
This blog post is different from my usual posts. On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to express how thankful, grateful, and blessed I am.
15 Legal Documents for Cancer Patients
Cancer. It is a word you don’t want to think about and a diagnosis you hope you never receive.
Here is a list of fifteen legal documents you may need during your cancer treatments and beyond.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month or Cancer Awareness Month. But what should you be aware of?
Unseen Challenges of Cancer Care
Going through cancer care is hard. There are many challenges facing cancer patients, and most of their challenges are unseen.
In this article, I will present just a few of the unseen challenges of cancer care. I say just a few because there are so many challenges, and challenges are different for each cancer patient.
I have divided the challenges into six categories that are in no particular order.
I Don’t Have Cancer, but Cancer Still Has Me
Even though I don’t have cancer, cancer still has me. I was successfully treated for breast cancer, but I can’t completely put cancer out of my mind. Cancer is like a brewing storm. Sometimes the rumbles of thunder are low and far away. Other times cancer flashes back into my life like a lightning bolt.
Supporting Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Cancer Treatments
Cancer treatments take a toll on the body, mind, and spirit in many ways. Oncology massage, acupuncture, physical therapy, integrative medicine, and healing touch are just a few ways to support your body, mind, and spirit through cancer treatments.
Yesterday I Was Your Child
Yesterday I was your child. Today I am your caregiver. How did I get here?
I know how you are feeling right now. I’ve been there…twice. Becoming a caregiver for your parent who has cancer can be quite bewildering.
What happened to cause you to become your parent’s caregiver?
Allow me to anticipate some of the challenges you are facing as you become a caregiver to your parent.