"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......
"It’s just a day"--my sister's 17th death anniversary. I can tell myself over and over, and my mind can almost believe it. But my body says differently: It’s not “just a day"......
As I write by book, Reluctant Warrior: A Breast Cancer Memoir & Emotional Survival Guide I'm sharing it here on my blog...
Two of my sisters have died, and one thing I know for sure is this: The grief doesn't just "go away."..."Why hasn't the world stopped? My sister just died."...
Today is five years since I heard the words: “I’m sorry. It is breast cancer.” How does it feel to experience my 5 year breast cancer-versary? I woke up too early… 3:30 am, I awoke achy and restless, screaming from nightmares. My body clearly remembered.......
Breast cancer trauma has deeply impacted my sense of self-worth, making me wonder "Who am I now?" I'm not the only one. ...
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......
"Dear Body,I once thought you were my enemy.Now I know BREAST CANCER is the enemy. And you?..."Imagine writing a letter to your body... What would it say? That's what I was asked to do as part of the BRCA Strong "Dear Body" photo shoot I flew across......
"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......
Dads Matter. I write often about how much moms matter, and certainly we do matter—tremendously. But today, it’s dad’s turn. Dads matter, too. Tremendously. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many dads who don’t fully realize how important they are. They don’t realize the potential they have to influence...
Life. It sure can be demanding. It sure can be beautiful. It’s a paradox, isn’t it? As I’ve said before, we can learn to “live in the paradox;” it's how we grow (This is How We Grow, p. 59). It’s where I’m living now. The Paradox...
I was pacing my hotel room in Sacramento, CA a few weeks ago, doing last-minute preparations for a presentation when, quickly checking my email, I saw a message titled, "IPPY Award Winner Interview." I'd already seen a few emails from the Independent Publisher's Book Awards announcing winners in...
[caption id="attachment_3601" align="alignleft" width="246"] My dear friend, Jody.[/caption] Help a Wonderful Family As I shared in my recent post, "Self-Care & Letting Help In--The 2 Most Important Things," I lost my dear friend, Jody, last week, as a result of mental illness. She left behind her husband...
It wasn’t until I first became a mother--with a beautiful baby boy I dearly loved, yet still struggling through postpartum depression--that I realized how hard it was to practice self-care and let others help me. I thought I could—and should—do it all on my own....
I have been a member of/volunteer with Postpartum Support International (PSI) since 1999. Over the years, I've served as a warmline volunteer, an AZ state support coordinator, and even as the PR Chair on the PSI Board of Directors. I can definitely vouch for the...
If there's one emotion people have a hard time with, it's anger. I know I've certainly struggled with it. I admit, I can get pretty roiled up sometimes, and when I do, I hate how I feel and especially how I act. That leaves me...
My house got pretty out of order last year while I was busy writing and publishing This is How We Grow. For weeks this winter, I would walk around analyzing and listing all that needed to be done. Recently, I finally jumped in—brutally tossing piles...
