For someone who has cancer like me, I am very grateful that you come and visit me in the hospital. Thank you for the cards, a bouquet of flowers and fruits you brought. Glad you initiated a campaign or fundraising for me – WITHOUT ASKING. I would have said no Continue Reading
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We’re Feeling Feelings Every Day
It’s just the way that you’re feeling now. It might just change somehow. So, I was inspired today to write this article about feelings. After publishing two more interviews recently, I always think to offset from one blog to another. Like after writing a kind of downcast personal story, another Continue Reading
The Exceptional, Brave Cancer Warrior
CieloMy name is Cielo, the author of “The Cancer Voice Asia”, a blog that aims to support and inspire anyone who is facing cancer. I know how it feels to be diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of cancer, Leiomyosarcoma, at the age of 29. I know the challenges, Continue Reading
Connecting With Peer Survivors Can Help Others Manage Their Cancer Battle
In today’s world where everyone is connected yet, not connecting. Technology has made our world closer, smaller and more connected; however, we are losing the art of real communication. People are afraid of connecting with someone with real conversation, and I would like to imagine, too, how much more for Continue Reading
How an Emotional Support Helps a Cancer Patient and Survivor
Try to examine yourself now. Are every word, action, and energy go straight to your heart? What about when you make mistakes, can you easily know it, feel it and you feel like tearing yourself apart? Now imagine this, your sibling, parent, friend or any special person in your life Continue Reading
6 Reasons Why We Should Keep Talking About Cancer
“Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.” – M. Scott Peck Facing a heartless disease called cancer is already facing death. Denying and keeping cancer from our family or friends adds the fatality of death. For fear of people learning about Continue Reading
6 Approaches To Embrace Your Inner Strength
Surviving cancer is like conquering high mountains, it is not the mountain or cancer we defeated, but ourselves. September 2017, I hiked for 40 kilometers in Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam. After climbing one of the highest mountains of Vietnam, where I suddenly realize that there are many more mountains to climb. Continue Reading
If We Don’t Stop Worrying, We Will Die
CieloMy name is Cielo, the author of “The Cancer Voice Asia”, a blog that aims to support and inspire anyone who is facing cancer. I know how it feels to be diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of cancer, Leiomyosarcoma, at the age of 29. I know the Continue Reading
What Does Freedom Mean To Me?
Freedom smells like an unpolluted air. It tastes like a bland food diet. One of its bad side? I am still dying to eat cakes! One of its good side? I finally stopped drinking coffee! Being free is — I don’t need to look back at what or who is Continue Reading
What Is Life After Beating Cancer?
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked Continue Reading