by Solis Cancer Community | Aug 19, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
Today is an important day, and unfortunately not for a happy reason. I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer on this day 19 years ago. I was 11, and I had no idea, no concept, of how it would impact my life going forward. There was a lot of sadness and anger, of course,...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jul 27, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
Gratitude. I didn’t know if I would ever feel it again after my diagnosis, but I think that’s because I didn’t really know what it was. Not on any deep level at least. I knew of it in theory, tried to feel it for things like the fact that I had a job in order to feel...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jul 5, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health
This past holiday weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend it at a friend’s cottage in Quebec. This cottage doesn’t get a cell signal and they don’t have wifi. It was a blissful break from the world, and it got me thinking about the importance of taking these...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jun 18, 2019 | My Story
Last entry, I discussed my history with low self-worth and two major events post-diagnosis that started me on the path to leaving this negative way of living and thinking about myself behind. Sticking to my decisions and taking the integrative route I knew in my bones...
by Solis Cancer Community | Jun 4, 2019 | Relationships and Cancer
I get it. When I was first diagnosed, I wanted to hide in my apartment and not see anyone who wasn’t my family. I didn’t want to talk to people, to have them look at me with sympathy and sadness; that head-tilt-and-frown expression, almost always followed by, “Hey....
by Solis Cancer Community | May 15, 2019 | Relationships and Cancer
Relating to people post-diagnosis can be difficult, contributing to the social anxiety that accompanies life with and after cancer. This is something I have struggled with; for example, not wanting to go to parties because I felt like that was all people could see...
