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!
Well the day has swung around again. It's Bell Let's Talk day. Bell Let's Talk is a day set aside in Canada to give attention to and fundraiser for mental health, since it began in 2010. Today, Bell will donate more towards mental health initiatives in Canada by contributing 5¢ for every applicable text, call, …
Have you ever started looking for something new to buy? Maybe like a vehicle. After you start to research, walking through car lots and going for test drives, you begin to see just how many people around you, own the model you are looking at. Before you started looking, you didn't think there were many …
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The last thing you want to do after you have a cancer diagnosis is put the energy in to fighting to get another doctor. At least I didn't. But cancer round two was my opportunity. I very quickly realized that the oncologist that I was working with, or more realistically fighting with, was not the …
Writing things down is so effective. Right? Do you agree? Being grateful is also effective. Right? Do you agree? What about writing down what you are grateful for? What about creating a gratitude journal? Aagghh journaling. I can hear you groaning. Yes, you. Groaning. Don't worry I groaned too. Journaling is one thing I have …
It has been 7 months since I started this blog. WOW!! Hard to believe, really. How has it been going? Good question. Hhhmmmm how do I answer that? It's been an up and down journey for sure. I guess I would start out by saying just the fact that I am still going is success …
After spending the years from age 16 to age 38 being in and out of various cancer clinics countless times, I've had one or two (or more) thoughts from a cancer clinic. Thoughts about the cancer clinic and thoughts about people in the clinic. Probably too many thoughts to share here in a my blog, …
Have you ever taken time for a reset? You might wonder what exactly does a reset mean? Well I think that is really something that means different things to different people, but I will make an attempt to clarify. Hopefully clear it up, a little bit at least. I have gone through a recent reset, …
Do you ever feel like you are just on the edge of something? Something great? Something new? Something exciting? I have felt that way for a few years. Just felt like I was just on the edge of something that will change my life. But even in that excitement of something new and life changing, …
I recently saw a post online talking, or perhaps a better word would be challenging people to come out of this social isolation and the past year and a half a better person. But what does that actually mean? I’m not really totally sure. I guess it’s something I’m going to have to think about …
Therapy. Counseling. Physiologist. Yikes, those words can strike fear in to so many. I can totally relate, since I used to feel that way too. I had initially gone to see a therapist for counseling. That was a short lived experience and didn't go exactly the way I thought it would. But that didn't make …
Melodee Glassford 