Cancer Truth Notes: #239

Cancer Truth Note: #239 Massage therapy and movement are your body’s friends to improve and/or manage chronic pain. It is common to think, “I am in pain. Exercise might make it worse.” Or “My body hurts, I don’t feel like exercising.” As a massage therapist and a...

Cancer Truth Notes: #238

Cancer Truth Note: #238 Chronic pain is a common long term cancer side effect. Do not let pain run the show. Get curious!  Chronic pain is one of those things we need to get creative with. Medication without interventions at the source of the pain, will ultimately...

Cancer Truth Notes: #237

Cancer Truth Note: #237 Bucket list items are meant to be conquered.  My oncologist used to be convinced that my husband and I traveled more than we were home, simply because whenever I saw him, we happened to be recently back from a trip. In fact, a week after my...

Cancer Truth Notes: #236

Cancer Truth Note: #236 We choose our response in every moment to everything. Are you living in fear and worry or gratitude, happiness, and action?  It is absolutely necessary and ok to feel all the feelings. If the feelings seem to be more negative than positive it...

Cancer Truth Notes: #235

Cancer Truth Note: #235 When you are a young cancer survivor new cancers and recurrences can happen.  I am going to leave that there. They do happen. It is also reasonable to think, the more people who survive treatments at earlier ages, the more likely it may be that...

Cancer Truth Notes: #234

Cancer Truth Note: #234 People are WEIRD AND everyone is doing their BEST.   I say the first part a lot. It is true. If we accept that everyone is weird it makes it a bit easier to view behavior through a weird lens versus a possibly hurtful one.  Think about it. If...