by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 24, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, Relationships and Cancer
Being diagnosed with cancer can be isolating and lonely, and I felt this acutely in part because of my young age. I’ve written before about the difficulty of relating to others post-diagnosis, and this feeling fits in there. It feels indescribably odd to receive a...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 17, 2019 | Supplements and Natural Compounds
We continue our dive into mushrooms with a heavy hitter: reishi mushroom! Most things that are good for us don’t taste great, and unfortunately, the reishi mushroom is part of this camp. As a result, this mushroom doesn’t have much use in the culinary world, but there...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 11, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
This can be a polarizing one, and it’s a topic that receives much debate between those who believe it does and those who don’t. Personally, I do believe everything happens for a reason and I almost always have, ever since I was a teenager struggling to get over the...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 3, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, Relationships and Cancer
I like to say I’m a recovering people pleaser. I mean, I had it bad, and it’s still something I struggle with. There are a few places this stemmed from I think, some bullying as a kid, feelings of low self-worth in relationships, and the loss of my father when I was...
by Solis Cancer Community | Sep 28, 2019 | Supplements and Natural Compounds
We continue our dive into mushrooms with one that most people will be familiar with: the shiitake mushroom! This mushroom is very popular in cooking and most often appears in dishes from a lot of Asian countries. But there are many more benefits to this fungi than...
by Solis Cancer Community | Sep 25, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, Relationships and Cancer
If you saw my Mental Health Monday video this week, you will know that I found out over the weekend that I lost a friend to breast cancer. It was normal for me not to hear from her for 3-4 months. Plus, she was dealing with a recurrence, was busy with a young son, and...