Her text arrived on a Saturday evening. Can we talk for a moment – please? D’s my coaching client, and she was scheduled to begin radiation for a painful node in her neck right after the weekend. If she was calling between her regularly scheduled sessions, I knew it was urgent. I dialed her number.… Read More »
Have you tripped over this common myth?
“That’s just the way it is when you’ve had cancer.” I wish I had a dollar for each time a cancer survivor has told me she heard this from one of her wellness professionals. Bring to mind something you don’t like that keeps showing up in your life. Maybe it’s something physical you’ve been dealing… Read More »
I just want to be over cancer…
Maybe you’re one of them. After you finished treatment, you didn’t want anything more to do with cancer. Ribbons and slogans? No thank you. Events that label you ‘survivor’? Uh-uh. Just leave me alone and let me get back to being a normal person. I get it. Treatment can be harsh. It can make you… Read More »
YOU’RE the Expert on This
In my last post I told you about a friend of mine who experienced something still too common after cancer treatment: she was released without any direction about how to navigate life as a survivor. Without her medical team to guide her, she floundered for months. I offered this suggestion: Once you finish treatment, don’t assume… Read More »
Are you falling for this common belief?
I’ll always remember that conversation with my friend P, after her breast cancer treatment. She’d opted for chemo after her surgery, so the ordeal had lasted months and cost her her hair. Now she was 9 months out from treatment. To all appearances she was healthy. But her voice sounded weak and small. “I’m floundering,”… Read More »
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