How many times have you heard the words ‘battle’ or ‘fight’ since you got your diagnosis?

“You’ll win this battle…”

“You’ve just gotta keep fighting...”

People mean well when they say these things. A lot of the time, they think...

Since you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, chances are you’ve found yourself wanting to say ‘no’ more often. Your energy’s low, you feel like crap most of the time, and you feel the need to protect yourself more strongly than ever.

Unfortunately, most of us have been...

When people are diagnosed with cancer, they often ask their doctors, “what are my chances?”. They want a number or a timeline so they can plan for what’s ahead and adjust their sense of hope -- in either direction.

In many cases, people take the data they’re given as an...

What a difference a year makes.

Twelve months ago, I was sitting in my car in shock. Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do was playing on the radio, and her lyrics were reverberating through me as I reached a tough realization. (pssst, you can read more about it here)

I was in the midst...

I was driving away from LAX in my rental to the magnificent land five hours and five centuries east of Los Angeles. I finally arrived to this ancient desert where its beautiful jewels – mottled bark, roots running 20 feet or more under the arid ground – gracefully stood five feet...

A friend once said that love songs are not written for a lover, but rather to the songwriter’s higher-self. While she sashayed to another topic, I was intrigued by her words. So much so, that I created a group listening exercise of love songs sang to a higher-self during self-empowerment...