“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh A battle with an incurable disease, “Every day is a struggle.” Here’s how Selma Blair faces Multiple Sclerosis with Continue Reading
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A Cancer Survivor Guide To Self-love
When you think of the popular term “self-love” it’s all about to love yourself more. For a cancer survivor perspective, it’s more than that. You see, for us, cancer is not only a battle of our physical body but also our mental health. And if you ask us how can Continue Reading
Free Advice: Stop Counting Days, Enjoy Each Day Instead
What cancer has taught me? Here’s a piece of free advice: stop counting your days, enjoy each day instead. It’s not coming back again! You may think I’m crazy – well, yes you may be right! But, don’t say because my cancer is not malignant unlike others, it is easy Continue Reading
To My Dear Friend, Keep Living Your Life to the Fullest
This is not a goodbye letter. When I had cancer 3 years ago, I thought to write a goodbye letter, in case, I can’t make it (living a long life, you know). And, so, I wrote one and sent to my Mom. But, yeah! Here I am – living a Continue Reading
When Cancer Makes your Life Dark, Look for the Stars
Having cancer is like you are in official custody to be in a dark abyss. You may think that you are the most unfortunate person in the whole universe and started to ask yourself, “Why, me?” Having cancer means your whole body is being attacked with a deadly cell that Continue Reading
Top 10 Fight Songs For Someone Has Cancer
Music therapy. Its absolute magic helps us no matter what we’re going through. Music therapy is very known to any supportive cancer care that it has given enormous advantages to anyone including to those who are sick. In listening to the right music it can help someone to: express their Continue Reading
A Calming Voice, a Helping Hand: Love and Financial Advice for a Bereaved Senior
People who lose a spouse are caught in a kind of harsh dual reality. On one hand, you’re dealing with what’s probably the most tragic event of your life, the emotionally-crippling loss of a spouse. At the same time, you’re faced with a list of financial and legal concerns, many Continue Reading
What Does Normal Mean, Anyway?
Seriously, what does normal mean, anyway? That was Forrest’s awesome mother blurted out during her conversation with the flirty school principal. Well, have you thought about that? What’s normal anyways? Being normal does not really have a true definition because everything is just — relative. You really don’t have to Continue Reading
How To Deal An Emotional Pain When Someone You Love Has Cancer
When the news comes in your house that your spouse, sibling, parent or anyone you love the most in your life has cancer it brings you also to an emotional trauma. No one ever likes to hear the 6-letter word cancer. Upon hearing those words is like tearing anyone’s heart Continue Reading
Find Strength In Your Pain
PAIN: Feel it, live it, embrace it, and learn from it. For some people who suffer pain 24/7, it just takes it out of them not just physically but emotionally and mentally. It just drags them down more and more, the worst thing about is, it’s never going away. I Continue Reading