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 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 22, 2019 | My Story
My mom is a wonderful human and one of the best mothers I have ever had the privilege to know. Like many kids, however, I didn’t appreciate her when I was young. She did terrible things, like refused to buy us cookies, ice cream, and sugary cereals whenever we...
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...
