to create inspired healing, wellness & live out loud joy beyond cancer
After three years and eight months of blogging at WhereWeGoNow about my "new normal," I've come to the realization that cancer is just the latest of the life struggles I've had to face, move through and learn from. To take me into this new phase of life, where cancer is no longer the center of [...]
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Philo The other morning, I spent some time talking with four young women in the physician assistant program at Seton Hall University. I was there to give them the truth (mine) about what it is like to be a cancer patient. As a patient [...]
I discovered Katherine Russell Rich in January when I stumbled across an April 2010 New York Time’s article she wrote entitled, “17 Years Later, Stage 4 Survivor Is Savoring a Life Well Lived.” Katherine is the author of “Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language” and “The Red Devil: To Hell With Cancer — and Back.” The NYT article began with her revelation that [...]
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing. Billy Graham Sharing my story with other cancer patients/survivors is the most effective way I've found to give back for all the support I received when I felt alone. That's why I'm a big fan of the Cancer Hope Network and proud to [...]
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain I'm doing something I've never done before with today's Survivor's Nest post - I'm talking about a person. This is a courageous woman with cancer who doesn't even have a nest of her own - she is homeless right now and [...]
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. Publilius Syrus Publilius Syrus was a Roman writer who lived from 85 BC to 43 BC. Why do you think we have yet to evolve beyond making hasty judgments about other people? Enjoy the video. Every time I watch it I still get goose bumps. In a [...]
Winter is lagging on with one more month to go. If you're feeling a bit of the winter blues, maybe your nest could use a little color pick me up.That being said, I bet you're not in the mood to paint an entire room. Instead, why not find an easier and less expensive way to [...]
The Survivor's Nest series is very special to me, as an interior decorator and a cancer survivor. As an interior decorator, I've always approached my work with the belief that a house isn't a home until it provides a soft place to land at the end of a stressful day. Living with cancer only intensified [...]
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