Cancer treatment is typically a long and harrowing experience. Chemotherapy infusions is one of the most well-known aspects of treatment and getting through them can be rough. I recently posted a chemotherapy gift guide with items that helped me handle infusion days. But not only will you need help getting through multiple chemotherapy infusions, recovering…
The Kids are Okay
My mom died two months before I turned 8 years old. Just two months after my oldest daughter turned 8, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then I became a parent with cancer. Life sometimes feels like reliving past trauma in a cruel pattern, only with slight variations. As I child, I spent countless hours…
Gift Guide: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy. One of the big scary words that comes along after you hear the words “you have cancer.” Something you may not know about it is, there are countless types of chemotherapy. How someone is effected by chemo will depend greatly on the person and also on which type of medications, infusions and treatment plans…
Bright Box Collaboration
I am thrilled to be partnering up with Bright Box to bring you this curated cancer gift box, to help support women who are currently facing a new cancer diagnosis or health challenge. Shea, the owner of Bright Box, is a gifting expert. She and her Bright Box team send Happy Mail to people everyday!…
The Middle of Things
There’s something about being in the middle of something. It’s hard to get started on a journey, a project, a challenge, whatever it is, it takes motivation and navigating unknowns to begin. But to be in the middle, ugh, it can feel like it stretches on and on, right? There’s only one beginning and one…
Growth: Good Things Take Time
I have this quote in my home that gives me a dose of hope every time I see it. It’s in our family room/kitchen area so it’s easy to see but also easy to miss, because it’s always there. It hangs on the wall, in a place I walk by a thousand times each day….
Gift Guide: Cancer Support
Often times what we need is just someone kind to say, “I’m thinking of you and wondering how you’re handling life right now. I’m keeping you here, in my heart.” Part of the reason I created the You Are Here guided cancer binder was so that others could give an actual gift to someone they…
My Cancer Story: Diagnosed
The moment I heard the words “you have cancer” my heart fell a thousand feet. My initial reaction was a feeling of hopelessness. However the voice on the other end of the line was kind and careful. She was the one who had first felt my lump the day after I found it. She was…
Growth: Hair & Hope
Have you ever wondered how long it takes to grow back an entire head of hair? From the moment I heard that I needed to do chemotherapy I had that thought. Over and over. I would google “chemo hair growth” and try to visually plan out when my hair would be at a certain length…
What Matters Most
We forget that waking up each day is the first thing we should be grateful for. The days and moments of my past now serve as a constant reminder to me about just how precious this life is. And for that, I am forever grateful. “The most phenomenal occurrences of all time and eternity—the most…