Journal
Honoring Cancer Survivors, Thrivers & Warriors
Throughout the course of our lives, most of us will be touched by cancer, either directly or indirectly. For those who face a diagnosis personally, surviving treatment and making it through recover...
Cancer-Related PTSD: The Trauma is Real
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so we’re turning our focus to an issue that plagues many of us who have faced breast cancer or other life-threatening experiences. Post Traumatic Stress Disord...
Life After Pandemic: Adapting Back to Our (New) Normal Lives
Let’s try an experiment. Imagine that we all live underground, inside of a deep cave. It’s not a scary cave, but it is dark. The colors all fade to grey, and we have lost track of time.
Fertility Preservation: Young Women with Breast Cancer
Choosing the path of motherhood is a courageous and selfless act. For some of us, it is simply a calling. But for many young women, it is not so clear.
Breathe Deep: The Healing Benefits of Pranayama
When we enter the world, our very first, triumphant act is to fill our lungs with air and cry out. And throughout the moments that make up our lives, it’s this same breath that sustains us.
Loving Our Body After Breast Cancer
Learning to love our body during and after breast cancer takes courage. It also takes kindness, compassion and time. It’s important to remember that there is only one of us, we are truly unique — t...
Top 10 Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Every time we open the fridge or scan a menu, we have a choice – to either select foods that help our bodies fight inflammation or pick ones that trigger an inflammatory response. In other words, f...
Finding our Voice — Journaling Throughout Illness
As many of us have learned the hard way, our lives can change in an instant. One day we’re busy taking care of our families, managing work and school schedules and trying to stay focused on the nex...
5 Reasons to Become a Plant Lady This Year
We’ve heard them all: Green Thumb, Crazy Plant Lady, Garden Gremlin. For the horticulturists who live for their potted friends, there’s no shame. And why not? This year, after embracing the shelter...
How to Schedule Our Healthcare in 2021
While Coronavirus cases appear to be decreasing across the country, according to experts, hospitals and medical institutions are still at their breaking point. On average, two out of every five Ame...
Staying Safe (and Positive) While Waiting for a COVID-19 Vaccine
It is a fresh new year, and first on our list of “things-we-really-can’t-wait-to-do” is to put the Coronavirus nightmare behind us. That, of course, is pure fantasy. Bad news first: The CDC has ide...
21 Reasons to be Joyful in 2021
Welcome to the start of something new. We’ve got a lot riding on 2021.




