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 | Nov 6, 2019 | Supplements and Natural Compounds
Here in Canada, winter is coming! And that means one thing for sure, colds and flus will soon be abounding. Yuck. While this is definitely an inconvenience for anybody, for those who are majorly concerned about the state of their immune system (such as those...
by Solis Cancer Community | Nov 2, 2019 | Supplements and Natural Compounds
Okay, so I don’t know if “quadfecta” is a word or not, but I’m using it anyway! The cold and flu season can be a stressful time for those going through and recovering from cancer treatment. Our immune systems are down or not at 100% because of the effects of...
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 17, 2019 | Supplements and Natural Compounds
We continue our dive into mushrooms with a heavy hitter: reishi mushroom! Most things that are good for us don’t taste great, and unfortunately, the reishi mushroom is part of this camp. As a result, this mushroom doesn’t have much use in the culinary world, but there...
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...