Tag: life
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Find Your Courage
Find Your Courage by Margie Warrell A book for anyone standing at the beginning of their second life Some books you read for information. Others seem to find you at exactly the right moment. Find Your Courage: 12 Acts for Becoming Fearless at Work and in Life by Margie Warrell is one of those books.…
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Life is not a race
Things I Wish I Understood Earlier There are so many things I wish I had understood earlier in life. Not because knowing them would have changed everything, or meant that I would have avoided the difficult seasons, the wrong turns, the heartbreak, the uncertainty or the moments when I felt completely lost, but because perhaps…
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Strangely brutal
The hardest part of cancer treatment can come after it ends. There is something strangely brutal about finishing cancer treatment. For months, your life revolves around appointments, scans, blood tests, infusions, surgery, radiation and medical teams. You are constantly being monitored, and there is always another appointment to get through, another milestone to reach. Then…
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Compound effect
The compound effect of small steps When we think about personal growth, we often imagine that progress needs to be significant. We believe we need to make big changes, push ourselves harder or completely transform our lives before we can say we are moving forward. But I’m learning that some of the most meaningful changes…
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Anniversary reaction
Have you ever noticed your body starts remembering before your mind does? You feel unsettled, your chest feels heavy, sleep becomes harder, and you find yourself more emotional than usual, without knowing why. It’s more than anxiety – it’s something researchers call an “anniversary reaction.” Trauma researchers have found that around the anniversary of a…
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Scanxiety
Scanxiety: When the Body Remembers This week I attended my six-month follow-up appointment at the hospital. The appointment itself lasted only a short time, but the days leading up to it felt much longer. If you’ve experienced cancer, you may know exactly what I’m talking about. There is even a name for it: scanxiety. Scanxiety…
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Becoming
One of the most common feelings people experience after a major life disruption is the belief that they have somehow fallen behind, as though the unexpected challenges they have faced have placed them on a different path from everyone else and left them struggling to keep pace with a world that seems to be moving…
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Liminal space
There is a space that nobody talks about enough after cancer treatment ends. It’s the space between surviving and living again. The appointments become less frequent. The treatment plan that once dictated every week comes to an end. Family and friends celebrate because you’ve made it through. Everyone wants to believe the hard part is…
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Reconnecting
Over the past year, I have discovered that some of the most profound moments of healing have not come from major breakthroughs, life-changing decisions, or dramatic transformations, but from something far simpler and quieter: walking each morning and allowing myself the time and space to reconnect with nature. For a long time, I believed that…
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Expressive writing
Writing Your Way Through Trauma For decades, psychologists have studied the healing power of writing. One of the most influential researchers in this field, Dr James Pennebaker, developed what is known as the Expressive Writing Paradigm – a simple but powerful technique that helps people process difficult experiences. His research found that when people write…
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