10 ways to calm your stress response
I’ve been living with a body that’s stuck in fight or flight since my teens. Of course for the longest time I didn’t know how to control or manage it. Then once I knew what I was dealing with, I was...
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“Being given this gift is a rare insight not many get to have, until it’s too late to apply it. I have the pleasure of giving a glimpse to all of you now” pheo vs fabulous Being palliatively treated...
View ArticleTrapped in fight or flight
When we are in a chronic state of stress, it causes a physiological and psychological response called survival mode. This means the MIND AND BODY are focused on one thing and one thing only: danger...
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View ArticleUnanswered Questions and a Mammogram?
Last oncology visit of the year I count appointments, small wins, month to month, day by day, because there’s no line we cross or distinguishing number that says we’re ‘done’. This was originally our...
View ArticleLife in an unpredictable body
Anyone with a chronic illness knows a certain unpredictability. Whether they will have a good day or a bad day is unknown. But what if you lived in a body where the suddenness of the symptoms ruled...
View ArticleRadioactive Iodine ☢️
As I’m being wheeled in, I see the door and my stomach flips. I’m in the same room as MIBG 8 years ago… Catch up here on my experience so far with metastatic thyroid cancer and how it led me to doing...
View Article10 years… of grief
Nothing could have prepared me for the grief… I ‘celebrated’ 10 years. This huge milestone making it to ten years after a traumatic terminal diagnosis. Stubbornly figuring out this disease every...
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