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The Mental Weight of Surviving: Cancer’s Invisible Aftershock

The Mental Weight of Surviving: Cancer’s Invisible Aftershock

Let’s Talk About Breasts Baby…Let’s Talk About You and Me…Let’s Talk About All the good things and the bad things they could be…Let’s talk about breasts… I can’t help but write while singing along in my head to Salt & Peppers hit song Let’s Talk about sex… Yes, this is the way my brain operates …

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Boobs, Bumps, and Being Your Own Super Hero: The Importance of Self-Checks

Boobs, Bumps, and Being Your Own Super Hero: The Importance of Self-Checks

As the month of LOVE is coming to an end, I always wonder if all the ladies have given some love to themselves before anyone else?  I know you are wondering where I am going with this… Let’s talk about your breasts of course! Whether you call them boobs, tatas, the twins, or whatever creative …

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Life Post Treatment

Life Post Treatment

I have never really been one to want to take a bunch of drugs.  If I have a choice, I will always choose a holistic approach. A vitamin or supplement approach first before turning to the world of prescription medication. That being said, I do believe there is a time, place, and benefit to prescription …

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Living the Sleeve Life: Let’s talk about Lymphedema and Compression Devices

Living the Sleeve Life: Let’s talk about Lymphedema and Compression Devices

The not-so-glamorous sidekick that can occur as a part of a cancer diagnosis that nobody asked for, and to be honest, I didn’t even understand until I was told my breast cancer had spread to my lymph nodes. What I have learned is that up to 30% of all breast cancer patients will develop lymphedema. …

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Truth Bomb for Family & Friends

Truth Bomb for Family & Friends

People reach out to me often about either themselves with cancer or family members or friends. I appreciate your trust in me to speak from the heart on this subject. I am reminded often that when one person is affected by this disease, a whole community is hit. Cancer is like a tornado that whips …

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Music Can Make Everything Better!

Music Can Make Everything Better!

Let’s start somewhere near the beginning…not the beginning of time. I wasn’t there for that. Were you?  If you were, well you look pretty darn good for your age! No, I am talking about the “youngster” years.  I don’t remember much about them now except for things like my Fisher Price record player and my …

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Dancing Through Diagnosis: Navigating Breast Cancer, the good, bad, and surprisingly funny

Dancing Through Diagnosis: Navigating Breast Cancer, the good, bad, and surprisingly funny

Well, here we are!  About to embark on another journey together. I hope you have put your seatbelts on tight because this ride has lots of twists and turns and you don’t want to fall out of your seat! Let’s start here…Let me ask you, do you keep a journal?  Do you talk to yourself?  …

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