Cancer affects our feelings and impacts our emotional wellbeing, whether we are the one with the illness, family or friends. What to expect and how to cope well?
Having been treated for breast cancer in 2012/13, rediagnosed with a local recurrence in 2018 and working in the field as a therapist and writer, here are 10 cancer lessons (in no particular order) that may help you cope [READ MORE]
You do not need to have cancer to sense that cancer awareness days, weeks or months can be complex, helpful, annoying, divisive and frightening. They can throw us off balance. Having been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer twice, [READ MORE]
What is cancer anger? When does it happen? Who gets it? And what can you do about it? Cancer anger is a normal response to fear, despair and grief – a range of feelings which cancer brings into our lives. [READ MORE]
Cancer anger is common and understandable. We should not have to apologise for it. It is something important to deal with and to let go off. Why and how? When it happened to me, I suddenly exploded and my cancer [READ MORE]
Cancer grief is the sense of loss and bereavement experienced by those affected by cancer (including family and friends). It can start with the diagnosis and does not need a death to feel earth shatteringly real. Cancer grief can [READ MORE]
Holding on to our identity, a sense of who we are and what we stand for is not always easy. Especially not during a health crisis, cancer or other chronic or terminal illnesses, which can drain use of meaning. [READ MORE]
Kate Granger, the founder of the campaign #hellomynameis, which asked for a respectful approach to patients by health care staff, is dead. Kate has left a mark on me, my own approach to cancer and my mortaliy. The terminally [READ MORE]
It exists, it is real but it is conditioned and not justified. It is someone else’s anger and I must stop taking it as my own, now. How? Once I attended a training course on ‘guilt’. One of the [READ MORE]
How do we cope well (and strive?) in the face of uncertainty after remission or a terminal cancer diagnosis? Clive James is dying. He knows it and has started saying good-bye to us, for a number of years now. His [READ MORE]
No. As far as I know, dandelions do not cause or cure cancer. This is a different kind of tale – about seasons in nature and seasons in the cancer journey, about anniversaries and memories. A tale that is [READ MORE]
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