I will take more from cancer than cancer takes from me

I will take more from cancer than cancer takes from me

I heard this from a ‘cancer-friend’ (someone with cancer or a cancer survivor whom you meet whilst you have cancer versus someone you knew before or after who also had cancer). It wasn’t hers, but she passed it on to me from her friend who had cancer. Who actually...
We are here! We are here! We are here!

We are here! We are here! We are here!

I grew up on Horton Hears a Who. Well, I grew up on a lot of Dr. Seuss, especially Fox in Socks, as I had a lisp, and they made me read that book for speech therapy. It was brutal! But I love it now. In Horton Hears a Who there’s this scene where the Who’s on the dust...
Anger tells us what we need

Anger tells us what we need

I was raised never to be angry. Perhaps many of us were. Especially those of us raised as girls. Especially those of us raised in a purity culture cult, where Eve was the absolute cause of all human suffering. Because of her sinfulness. Because of her wantonness....
Go where you can keep your heart open

Go where you can keep your heart open

I am playing with my heart a lot. I’m practicing keeping my heart open, and open even more, as I’m also practicing learning when it’s time to shut it down a bit, to turn it more inward and to turn me more inward. I’m noticing what opens me up and what shuts me down....
We are breathing starlight

We are breathing starlight

I heard this on the Being Well podcast with Rick and Forrest Hanson. The amazingness of the universe and of life and of every moment. We are breathing starlight. It has stayed with me. How might I feel differently when I hold my mind to this – the incomprehensibleness...