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 | Jun 11, 2021 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
Fear plays such a role in our lives. It influences our development as kids, it impacts how we behave in and perceive the world around us as adolescents, and it can prevent us from living the life we dream of as adults. Fear begins as a practical emotion. It helps to...
by Solis Cancer Community | May 7, 2021 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story
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...
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...
