to create inspired healing, wellness & live out loud joy beyond cancer
Two Valentine's Days ago I wrote a blog post about the "healing comfort of love" as expressed by "the little things" we do for each other. That's not to say I wouldn't appreciate being swept off my feet with a surprise flight to Paris as much as the next girl. But who are we kidding? [...]
https://youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw You need to watch this video. It's less than three minutes long and, trust me, it's worth every second. I'll wait right here until you get back. I'm so glad you watched the video. Now we can talk. Brene Brown is my favorite academic. She's a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College [...]
While our children were in grammar school, I waited with them for the bus every morning on a corner directly in front of our house. That corner was not their original bus stop. As the school year approached for our brand new kindergarten student, a post card arrived in the mail assigning her to a [...]
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. Raul Julia I'm sure we all remember the days of cancer driven single-mindedness. Cancer was our only thought, our only question, our only focus. I went to bed at night and fought for sleep through a barrage of cancer thoughts. [...]
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? Tillie Olsen I don't know about you, but almost everyone I know, including me, is perennially "busy." We all have jobs and lives that demand a huge amount of our time. As we devote so much attention to juggling our responsibilities, [...]
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. Ralph Waldo Emerson What does your house say about your spirit? Like it or not, your house is speaking up loud and clear about who you are and what you value. I recently met with a young [...]
Although I left the dating world almost 25 years ago, I still remember it as a place fraught with land mines. For single men and women living life beyond cancer, dating represents an even larger challenge. In addition to the usual questions - how to connect, how soon to call and how to deal with [...]
We all know how life goes during the diagnostic and treatment phase of cancer. It's 24/7 cancer and everything else that used to constitute life takes a back seat. For me, once that phase wound down, I returned to my life and new interests, such as creating the WWGN community, writing my blog and speaking [...]
Where We Go Now 