I am the one who was covered up with my illness and now I am free from it.Ā
I am the one who is naked and free and open to life.Ā
I am the one who rises out of the Nautilus Shell and its many inner chambers.
I am the one in active movement, saying a joyous YES to life! Continue reading →
Ok, so I finally rented The Hunger Games and watched it this week, with equal amounts of fascination and horror.Ā I was fascinated with the amount of creative endeavor that went into the writing of the book and then the masterpiece of a movie.Ā I was horrified with what was expected of those 24 young people! Continue reading →
Last week I faced my first CT scan after I’d finished with chemo and all surgeries.Ā My oncologist suggests I have one of these every year from now on, just in my chest area, to be sure nothing cancerous is growing there.Ā It sounded sensible enough in November, when I visited him for my 10 month check-up after the final chemo (which was in January).Ā Continue reading →
One thing I’ve learned via this second Cancer Journey is that there’s no such thing as a BAD day.Ā Here’s something I wrote in my journal when I was going through chemo in 2012:
I am so tempted to say that yesterday was a BAD day. But there is something inside of me that resists that word. Continue reading →
I originally made this SoulCollageĀ® card in the spring of 2011, just a few months before my diagnosis of secondary angiosarcoma of my left breast (NOT breast cancer).Ā I wasn’t sure what she was saying to me, but the energy of the card felt strong and protective to me.
That July, when I found out I was going to haveĀ a mastectomy, I happened to draw this card in one of the short readings I do with my cards every other day. Continue reading →