Today I am teaming up with The Lovin Sisters to talk about Breast Cancer Awareness and Support. I answered some questions in stories about what women need to know in terms of staying on top of their breast health and how they can support someone through treatment. One of the top questions I was asked…
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Cancer Gift Guide: Mastectomy
If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, chances are you’ve had to make a decision about surgery – either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. I chose to have a bilateral mastectomy (meaning I had both of my breasts removed). It’s such a personal decision and not one that I took lightly. By choosing a…
Redefining Love
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, Steve and I had been married for 10 years and 2 months. We had already weathered a few storms together, including job loss, two miscarriages and the deaths of my father and both of my grandmothers, as well as his grandfather. We knew life could hand out downs,…
Travel: Take The Trip
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the first thing my then 8 year old daughter asked me was “Will we still get to go on our trip and have Christmas?” Knowing that our family vacation to Destin, Florida was just a week away, I had wondered about that too. I asked my cancer surgeon…
Cancer Gift Guide: Chemo Recovery
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…
Cancer 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….
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…