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Today is kind of a big day for me. It is my 3 year cancerversary for the triple negative breast cancer diagnosis. The recurrence rate drops sharply after 3 years, so…woohoo for me!!! I will breathe even easier after the 5 year mark where recurrence rarely happens, but I gotta take my wins where I […]
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Here we are at the end of the year and the end of my 6-part series on managing stress during the holidays. I hope you have gotten some helpful tips and have enjoyed the holiday season with a bit less stress and a bit more joy. If you haven’t applied the practices I have suggested […]
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Happy holidays!! It’s almost Christmas and the last day of Hanukkah. ‘Tis the season to be with family and reflect. That alone may be adding stress to the already busy holiday season. This is the fifth post in my six-part series on managing stress during the holidays and I get personal in this one. If […]
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This is the fourth post in a six-part series on managing stress during the holidays. So far in the series, I’ve written about what stress does to your body, how meditation helps and how you might want to put down your cell phone occasionally. If you haven’t read those posts, go back and check them […]
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Last week I wrote about meditation as a scientifically proven tool for reducing stress. If you haven’t read that post, check it out. Mindful breathing meditation is not as hard as it may sound. This week, I’m encouraging you to take a break from technology. Multiple recent studies have shown that our daily tech addiction […]
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In this series on managing stress, last week I wrote about how and why it is vitally important to learn how to manage stress if you are trying to create Permanent Remission. It can be especially challenging during the holidays. Today, I start off with a scientifically proven method to reduce stress while simultaneously boosting […]
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Happy Thanksgiving! Although this can be a joyful time of the year, the holidays can also bring added stress to our already busy, stress-filled lives. You may be feeling a lot of pressure to make the holidays special for kids or loved ones; you may have visits with extended family, bringing up past triggers; or […]
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I have been having a bug problem for 30 years and it’s not in my house. It’s in my gut. I have been learning a lot about the importance of the various bacteria in and on our bodies since my two cancer diagnoses. Did you know we are host to a hundred trillion bacteria? Did […]
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You’re so freaking tired. You’re afraid of every weird pain wondering if it might be the cancer back again. So much anxiety! Add to that, your friends and family are expecting you to be back to normal now that the treatment is over. But you are not back to normal. You’re pretty sure you will […]
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Sometimes I hear people say that food doesn’t matter in health. Or all food is converted to glucose in the blood and that fuels all cells so it doesn’t matter what you eat. Or all calories are the same inside the body. These opinions, sometimes even made by medical professionals, are ignoring new studies that […]
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