Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
Cancer takes a toll on a person, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Our mental, emotional, and spiritual health also plays a role in our physical health, and this is an area of healing that often gets overlooked when we are dealing with cancer or another serious diagnosis. We are so focused on healing physically, that we forget to take a look at what we might need to heal mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Here, I will discuss things that I did to achieve and maintain my mental, emotional, and spiritual health throughout my journey and today, and I will explore their critical role in our overall health and wellbeing. I hope that you find advice and tools that will help you throughout your own journey and beyond.
Holding Space and Making Room: Walking Through the Swamp of Emotions
When my MRI results came back clear last year, I had an unexpected reaction to them. You can read all about it here, but basically, I felt this wave of confusing and mixed emotions. There was the happiness and relief of course, but then came twinges of sadness, grief...
Light in the Darkness
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...
Intuition and Treatment Decisions: 5 Ways to Connect to Your Intuition
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...
Cancer PTSD Triggers: 5 Steps for What to do When They Blindside You
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...
3 Tips for Handling Times of Challenge and Change
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...
