by Solis Cancer Community | Jun 18, 2021 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
In part one of this series, I talked about how fear plays a role in our experience after a cancer diagnosis and how our western medical system, though full of compassionate and caring doctors, often ends up disempowering us and increasing our feelings of fear as a...
by Solis Cancer Community | Dec 18, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
What a year it has been. Oomph. It’s been incredibly hard for so many people for so many different reasons. And when we have years like this, those soul-crushing, existence-questioning, normalcy-out-the-damn-window years, we can’t wait to jump into the new one...
by Solis Cancer Community | Nov 20, 2020 | Detoxing, Exercise, Latest News
“Detoxing” is quite a buzzword these days, and like most things that become popular with Instagram influencers and celebrities, it has also come under a lot of scrutiny. It’s almost like a dirty word now, with people rolling their eyes when you say, “I’m doing a...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 30, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
Intuition. Some of you may be wondering what this has to do with cancer; I know I definitely would have been at the beginning of this whole journey. You may have decided to go with everything that your oncology team offered you, and there is of course absolutely...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 16, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
I was substitute teaching at a school today that I don’t go to very often. There is a subconscious reason for that, I’m realizing now. I was on my way there this morning, and this crazy sense of dejavu came over me. Not just dejavu, where you can see in your mind...
by Solis Cancer Community | Oct 9, 2020 | Latest News, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
I was asked recently what one word came to mind when I thought of cancer, and what first popped into my mind was “change”, both good and bad. When we get a diagnosis, everything just stops. Everything you’ve been doing up to that point becomes entirely about cancer...