by Solis Cancer Community | Nov 22, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, My Story, Uncategorized
I was having dinner with a dear group of friends this week. We all met in a breast cancer support group, and though we have all moved on and don’t attend the group anymore, we get together as much as we can to reconnect, catch up, and of course talk cancer. Finding...
by Solis Cancer Community | Nov 14, 2019 | Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health, Uncategorized
Cancer. It brings so much change with it. In literally an instant your life is forever altered. Before, you’re mostly thinking about your friends, your family, your job, the plans you have coming up this weekend. After, all of that gets obliterated, and all that is...
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 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 | May 28, 2019 | My Story
Nothing separates a weed from a rose other than one person’s opinion of it. But even with this opinion, a dandelion is still a flower, and it doesn’t concern itself with changing to fit whatever characteristics we think a flower should have. It just lives its life,...