to create inspired healing, wellness & live out loud joy beyond cancer
Like most adults, I am convinced I cannot draw. I can doodle, however, and that is the beauty of the Zentangle art form and method, which a fellow cancer survivor introduced me to last week. This isn't mindless doodling, it's doodling with focus, but without intent. You don't have a plan and there are no [...]
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 [...]
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” Joseph Campbell If you've been reading WhereWeGoNow for any length of time, you know that cancer's kick in the rear taught me to say "Yes" to my adventure. In fact, "Say Yes to Yourself" is one [...]
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 [...]
If you relish the joy of holding a real book in your hands, don't miss this amazing stop-motion animation by Sean Ohlenkamp. Let me know if you agree with the statement at the end of this short and immensely delightful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8 Survival > Existence, Debbie Image courtesy of Hannah Swithinbank Comments Hello Debbie, Sat, 09/06/2014 [...]
If you're on Facebook even a little bit, you've seen video after video of people dumping ice buckets over their heads. The ALS ice bucket challenge is the internet craze of the summer. The rules are a bit murky, but it appears that once challenged, you have 24 hours to donate to ALS and/or pour [...]
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. Brene Brown I admit it. I have a scarcity mentality. You'd think I worry a lot about money (sometimes I do), but the resource that strikes fear in my heart most often is time. As in "there is never enough time." "I [...]
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 [...]
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