I am no expert, but I want to share my cancer battles and my mental health journey with you, some stress reduction ideas for your life, and hopefully some fun things along the way. Plus strategies I have found successful for me and give you tools for success with your health and life. Life can knock us down through health or life challenges but that doesn't need to stop us. Welcome friends, I am so glad you are here and that you learn something helpful along the way!
Your smile. It can be something that you share often and use freely or something that you hide and might not bring out very often. Let's admit it, if you are being really honest, you are similar to most of us and when you see yourself in a picture, you quickly make a judgment on …
Regret. It's something that we are all likely going to face at some point in our lives, if not many times. Hard to avoid really. But I guess it depends on what you are regretting, why you are regretting it and how you plan to move forward past the regret. Easier to talk about than …
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Hhmm is depowered a word? I'm not too sure, but let's go with it just for me. Like so many things in life, it comes down to choice or choices. Are your choices going to empower you or remove your power? Are you going to take back power and control or give it away? Every …
You might find yourself sitting there in a situation and your biggest decision factors are what others will think of what you have done or will do. Wow! That’s overwhelming and a lot to carry. And it really seems like a no win scenario.
If your hope lies in all negative, bad or destructive things being blown away in one fall swoop, you will likely always be disappointed. If you can find hope in the small, incremental progress that happens towards resetting bad systems or holding systems to account, that is success. I know, I know, we want things to happen in big ways and all at once.
-50 DEGREES!!!! Yes -50 degrees windchill outside friends. Yikes. 😨 I like to call winter the season we regularly ask ourselves "just why in tarnation do we continue to live here?" The answer to that question could be logical or even illogical. Depends on the day I suppose. Or perhaps the temperature outside more likely. Here in Saskatchewan, we are …
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It really feels like I have spent much of my life sitting in hospital waiting rooms and in clinics waiting for medical tests. It really started when I was 16, with cancer diagnosis #1. While I haven't done every medical test possible (thank goodness) I have definitely completed a whole lot of them. Some of …
After you hear one of the most dreaded words anyone can hear, CANCER, the most likely word you really want to hear next from your doctor is remission. You are in remission. Your cancer is in remission. But what happens if you don't get that? You don't hear those words from your doctor? That word. …
Wondering if you need to act like a bear probably isn't your usual thought process but stick with me here. Winter has finally arrived in full force recently, at least here on the prairies. It arrived with the usual unexpectedness to many people who live where I live. It's the end of October and having …
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I recently spent two mornings at the dentist getting work done. Yuck! You know there was no way that was my choice. That has been one of my life long challenges. Needing to frequently visit and have things taken care of. About 8 years ago I was informed that I needed quite a lot of …
Melodee Glassford 