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?
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]
If you are affected by cancer (including relatives and friends) you will soon find, that other people affected by cancer are in a similar yet also very different boat – my cancer is not your cancer. The cancer experience and [READ MORE]
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