to create inspired healing, wellness & live out loud joy beyond cancer
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 [...]
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." Groucho Marx It's not easy to walk into a plastic surgeon's office for reconstruction after breast cancer. On my first visit, I sat in the waiting room and fumed. All around me were glossy pamphlets and posters promising "enhancement" and "transformative" procedures that would [...]
The alarm went off at 5 a.m. and shocked me out of bed. We had to be on the bus by 6:10 for my son's field trip to The Liberty Science Center, where a live feed would virtually insert us into an operating room. I wondered as I drove my car through the unusually empty [...]
From the first moment I faced the potential of cancer, there was isolation. I carried the secret for days, unable to tell my husband. How could I cause him worry? How would I reassure my children? How to tell my mother and large, extended family? How do I break the news to my friends? Each [...]
As a graduate of Look Good ... Feel Better, I want to share this with you because I've experienced the power of LGFB. Initially, I didn't think it would help me feel better because I didn't have chemotherapy or radiation. I felt ugly when I looked at my naked body, which no amount of make-up [...]
Yesterday was April 15th, the third year anniversary of my mastectomy. I know every moment I'm still here is a celebration of life, but I found myself focused on the emotions of the day. I guess I can't help it. My oncology therapist told me I have the emotional memory of an elephant, in that I [...]
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer Gratitude is the mother of WhereWeGoNow. As I healed from my diagnosis, mastectomy and reconstructive surgeries, it was gratitude [...]
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama
Where We Go Now 