Weekly Round-Up: The New Year’s Edition
Time for this week’s round-up of the best blog posts I’ve read over the past week. These posts touched me, taught me something, and inspired me, so I wanted to share them with you. Remember, if you’ve written a post you’d like readers to see, just leave a comment.
This week Abigail writes movingly about the challenges of living with a usually invisible terminal illness, particularly the mental and emotional toll accompanying metastatic breast cancer.
Becky reflects on the unsettling statistic of a 50% recurrence rate after a regional cancer recurrence in her latest post. Despite the sobering statistic she wants to focus on embracing the present and creating meaningful experiences in the near future. See also Martha‘s post on learning to live with new unknowns in cancer.
Surviving Breast Cancer‘s post about the connection between a breast cancer diagnosis and domestic violence was an eye-opener for me.
Our MBC Life’s latest podcast features Dr. Virginia Kaklamani explaining ESR1 mutations, how to test for it, the new treatment option that is now available as well as many of the ongoing clinical trials for HR+ MBC.
Barbara highlights her observation of a growing sense of entitlement within the breast cancer community.
I am loving Carolyn‘s reframing of New Year’s Resolutions as self-care promises.
A reminder from Audrey that her book The Journey to Better Times: 10 Elements to living well with serious illness and long-term conditions is now available on Kindle.
Finally this week, I leave you with encouraging words from Connie, offering support to those grappling with the challenges of the winter season, be it in the literal or metaphorical sense.
Maybe my challenge, our challenge, is to stay present with winter, seeing the gifts it has to offer in the quietness of the short days and long dark nights. And maybe part of that challenge is to reach out to one another and offer encouragement by walking together in the sunshine, layered up and laughing, as we work to stay out of the blues, feeding our souls with light.
Until next week,
Yours with much love always
Marie xxx
