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Guest Post: Engaging with the World

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You may remember a guest post by Anna, author of The Cancer Culture Chronicles Blog which appeared last December on the JBBC blog. The Well Trodden Path was a searingly honest account of living with metastatic breast cancer… Continue reading

Coping with a recent breast cancer diagnosis?

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If you have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, you may find this LBBC podcast helpful as an aid to understanding the feelings and reactions you may be experiencing.  Learn about the different… Continue reading

Healing balm to my soul

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  Yesterday I allowed myself the luxury of wallowing in my despair. After I wrote my blog post, I logged off, buried myself under the covers of the duvet and cried and railed… Continue reading

Friday Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which… Continue reading

What do you say to someone with cancer?

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  Today’s post is prompted by two things I read over this past weekend. Firstly, a post by Feisty Blue Gecko which among other things touches on the insensitivity of the words some… Continue reading

Poetry Friday

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Heartprints Whatever our hands touch – We leave fingerprints! On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Wherever I go today Help me… Continue reading

Friday Round-Up

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Welcome to the first round-up of a New Year. So what has the blogosphere been writing about this past week? Philippa from Feisty Blue Gecko has been writing about that fear of recurrence… Continue reading

The Yoga Mat – Its Place in my Cancer Care

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I had been hearing wonderful things from a friend about her yoga teacher, and when she told me that Sighle had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, I got in touch and asked her if you… Continue reading

Repost Yourself!

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I love this idea from the EduClaytion blog and what a perfect way to round off 2010. Is there a particular post you have written during this past year you would like more… Continue reading

My Christmas Wish for You

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Earlier this week the annual celebration of  the winter solstice took place here in Ireland at Newgrange in Co Meath. Newgrange is famed for the illumination of its passage and chamber by the Winter Solstice sun. Above… Continue reading