How cancer mentally tests you

What does acceptance look like? I’ve had to dig deep for this level of acceptance that this is just the way the whole process is. The fight for me has been more about getting basic care than actually battling cancer. I have had to let go of the frustrations and the continual cycle of disorganization

Action Your Own Advice

In my last article found here, I shared tips for coping with mental well-being especially when it came to social media and losing yourself in the distractions of articles that may or may not be healthy for your well-being. Everything in our lifestyle must be for our highest good and we get to decide what

What Have You Done For You Lately?

So my ongoing battle to try and get a health care professional to try and take responsibility for my vitamin D levels and thyroid is continuing. The time wasted by myself, the GP and Oncologist debating over whose job it is, is ridiculous. In the meantime, my fatigue levels are worsening. I just want to

You’ve Come Too Far Not To Believe

Completely humbled while speaking with another Melanoma patient going through it this morning. Huge perspective and mind shift in how lucky I really am. I grumble about side effects and the lack of organisation with care plans and appointments within the medical departments. And not to invalidate my right to that. I really am blessed

No Right Or Wrong Way

We will all face challenges and adversity in one way or another. How we choose to accept and manage it is a personal experience. There is no one size fits all. Our truth will resonate with some and not others. And that is ok. We are not here to judge one another or invalidate how

Stay True to YOU!

Apparently, my brain was eager to slip into processing and reframing old conditioned beliefs this morning. When are you going to grow out of it? And so took me back to a time when people would happily say to me when are you going to grow out of….? insert said thing that they felt uncomfortable

If At First You Don’t Succeed

Anything thrown on your path can strengthen resolve or break it, so choose which one you allow.

React or Respond

Life would be a miserable place indeed if we chose to see the negative connotations in all circumstances. I am by no means belittling the seriousness of a perceived event, however each one of us works from our mind’s perceptions, it’s liberations and limitations. These are the choice of our own realisation’s, and we decided

Self care looks like when you get a cut and bleach. And you can dye your hair the brightest colours of the rainbow. That’s my happy right there.

Guided Meditation

So my Hospice are as ever the most amazing people on the planet if you ask me. My counselling sessions finished and I know I can go back to them at anytime. But I also know the resources are there for everyone and I am very conscious of taking up their time. Of course I