Reframing Cancer Survivorship
Today, on National Cancer Survivors Day, I am asking the question who are cancer survivors and is it really necessary to set aside a day to celebrate survivorship? The terms cancer survivor and… Continue reading
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Diagnosis: Breast Cancer : The Best Action Plan for Navigating Your Journey
I regularly get requests to review books on breast cancer and when Cara Novy- Bennewitz sent me an advance copy of her book, Diagnosis: Breast Cancer: The Best Action Plan for Navigating Your Journey,… Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve… Continue reading
Taking up the challenge
I am so pleased that Anne Marie has taken up my call for writing prompts and her challenge ties in nicely with yesterday’s Why Words Matter theme. Here is Anne Marie’s writing prompt… Continue reading
Why Words Matter
Last week on their blogs, both AnneMarie and Lori wrote about the power of words and indeed this is a subject I have written about myself in the past. I believe it is important that we raise… Continue reading
Challenging ourselves to keep on writing
Many of you will know of, and some of you will have joined me in taking part in the WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month, a month dedicated to the art of writing about health. I absolutely… Continue reading
Weekly Round-Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve… Continue reading
Body image and sexual functioning after breast cancer
Lindsey Rosman, a doctoral student in the department of psychology at East Carolina University contacted me recently about a confidential online survey she is conducting as part of her research into body image… Continue reading
Join me in a new blogging challenge
Jen from Keep The Calm was so inspired by the solidarity of last week’s 6 word cancer memoir challenge set by Renn, that she has decided to continue with a challenge of her… Continue reading
Motivation Monday
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ~ Henry Miller ~
