The opportunities you have are too beautiful and too valuable for you to let them pass you by. Stop making excuses and start making progress. What you imagine, you can begin. What you begin, you can finish. It’s all a matter of choosing to get it done. That’s a choice you can make in any [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Seize this Day
Posted in Inspiration, tagged Inspiration, Ralph Marston on July 31, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Poetry Friday
Posted in Inspiration, tagged poetry friday, Wendell Berry on July 30, 2010 | 18 Comments »
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places Where I left them, asleep like cattle Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the [...]
Could fish oil reduce risk of breast cancer?
Posted in Lifestyle, Research, tagged Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Epidemiology, DHA, EPA, Fish oil supplements, invasive ductal breast cancer, omega-3 fatty acids, reduced risk of breast cancer on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, adds to the growing evidence that fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing breast cancer. Regular use of fish oil supplements, which contain high levels of the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, was linked [...]
Breaking the worry habit
Posted in Inspiration, tagged Be Confident: A Four-Step Program to Eliminate Doubt and Achieve Lifelong Self-Esteem, Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Breaking the worry habit, Deepak Chopra, Dr Leslie Sokol, Dr Marci G. Fox, Think Confident on July 24, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Many of you commented on how useful you found the Deepak Chopra post Time to Stop Worrying that I highlighted last month. Chopra wrote that worry is like a mental smog and one of the least productive of all emotions. He is right of course, but the question for those of us addicted to worrying is how [...]
Poetry Friday
Posted in poetry, tagged Mary Oliver, poetry friday, Wild Geese on July 23, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world [...]
Cancer survivors online empowerment rally
Posted in Survivorship, tagged brain cancer, breast cancer survivors, Cancer survivors online empowerment rally, cancer survivorship, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, Jody Schoger, Joe Bacal, Lani Horn, Mel Majoros on July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today, Friday, July 23, the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) will be hosting an online Empowerment Rally featuring a diverse group of five cancer survivors/advocates participating in a roundtable discussion on patient empowerment. The Rally is a platform for the voice of these five survivors to discuss what mattered most in their cancer care, choosing the [...]
How to write a healing poem
Posted in Guest Blog, poetry, Psychological impact of cancer, tagged Diana Raab, Healing with Words, poetry on July 22, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Diana Raab Do you remember earlier this month I reviewed author Diana Raab’s Healing with Words? When I posted the review I promised you a special appearance on the JBBC blog by the author herself. Today stopping by on her WOW book tour, the author shares the secrets to writing a healing poem with us. You also have the chance [...]
Getting past “why me”
Posted in Inspiration, Personal Growth, tagged Anne Mattos-Leedom, cancerversary, Ezra Bayda, when life's not fair, why me? on July 21, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Do you ever find yourself saying “why me”? or “it’s just not fair”? I can honestly say I haven’t said those words since I was a child. As I grew up it didn’t take me long to realise that life isn’t fair and so by the time I heard the words “you’ve got cancer” it [...]
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