Sharing your pain is scary, but leaning in to therapy was the best thing I did to heal emotionally from cancer.
What I Learned In Therapy
Tag: body image
Are You Rushing Your Body to Heal?
Mending from cancer and its treatment takes time. It's not always easy to let your body set the pace for recovery.
What Are You Struggling With?
The triumph can't be had without the struggle. Wilma Rudolph In the five years since my cancer diagnosis, I've struggled with a lot. At first I struggled alone with loneliness, anger, survivor's guilt, fear, body image and grief. Even though I had supportive friends and family, no one really understood what I was going through. It took some time but, eventually, [...]
Welcome Old Friends & New Friends to the WWGN Community!
This week we’ve been blessed with many new WWGN members, mostly due to the guest post I wrote for Cure Magazine. (Right now the iconic Girl Scout song: “Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold,” is playing in my head. Because not everyone has been here from the very beginning, I though […]
Making Peace with My Body After My Mastectomy
I just stumbled upon this poem, which I wrote about a year after I had my mastectomy. Part of the struggle of having breast cancer is accepting the damage done to our breasts, which mean so much to us as women, lovers and mothers. Now four years later, although I can't forget the price cancer [...]
Love & the Vastness of Cancer
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan The greatest gift of WWGN for me is my interaction with you. Sharing our stories tears down, brick by brick, the emotional wall we inevitably hit on our cancer journey. A WWGN reader left a powerful comment that eloquently sums [...]
Have You Been Brainwashed About Beauty?
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in [...]
Are You Afraid to Move Your Body?
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula. Richard Simmons After cancer treatments and surgeries, our bodies are definitely changed. Where there once was health and vigor, there is now scarring, tightness, soreness and weakness. While it certainly takes time to [...]
Where We Go Now 