We women are so good at caring for everyone else, but we're not so good at self-care.We hustle to maintain it all--family, work, home, health, goals, purpose, relationships--but the last thing we really need right now is more hustle.What we most likely really need as...
"Like a Watered Garden," the podcast that shows you how to personalize the scriptures to help you “overcome, become, and flourish” in bio-psycho-social-emotional and spiritual ways, using Come Follow Me in the Old Testament...
"What does it mean to carry the BRCA gene mutation--for myself & my family?"
2 years ago today, I learned I carry the BRCA1 genetic mutation--10 days after I'd already been diagnosed with breast cancer, and 3 days after my double mastectomy.
I knew I was at...
I've spent the last 24 months of my life dealing with breast cancer, and the last 12 months dealing with breast cancer AND Covid.
And I have come to see that COVID has shown us all a little of what it's like to have cancer.
It...
Know Your #MomGenes: My BRCA Gene Testing Story
I’ve just undergone my 7th surgery in 9 months. My body has had it, and I’m thinking about how this cancer could’ve been prevented if I had known I was #brca1 positive before.
Immediately following my double mastectomy with...
Little did I know I would become so well-versed in the various breast reconstruction options.
It seemed straighforward, if not overwhelming, at the start: breast cancer diagnosis, immediate double mastectomy with expander placement, followed by exchange to implants 2 months later.
But things didn't go as planned,...