About being alive.
When I knew that chemo hair loss was going to happen to me, I decided to take matters into my own hands. It was one important way of feeling in charge, despite cancer. What can we do to cope [READ MORE]
When I saw my old clothes in the second-hand charity shop my heart cried. Old memories and feelings started flooding back, and I even felt disloyal. Had the decluttering gone too far? Are you good at decluttering or do [READ MORE]
How can we turn grief anniversaries into a source of personal focus and strength? We all have grief anniversaries, and the older we get the more we accumulate. Grief anniversaries are those dates in the calendar of our life, [READ MORE]
Within hours of hearing that his long-term friend was dying, the late Leonard Cohen sent Marianne Ihlen a letter. What when people die before we can explain, ask why or say goodbye? Talking about dying Talking about death and dying is [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]
Karin Sieger interview about coping with life’s adversities and growing resilient during difficult times. LISTEN HERE: Interview with Living Well Today Show on iTunes (2017) A little while ago I was contacted by Susan Wheeler-Hall of the Living Well [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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