Tag: mental-health
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Welcome to the Club
This month marked my official induction into the Survivorship Program. I know that phrase should be encouraging, but I didn’t ask for this membership. Never downloaded the app, never registered my email, yet here I am. In the club. This brought so many emotions. I had to reach out to a few of my breast…
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Vagus Baby!
Yeah, this is not that Vegas, but the other one. I mentioned Vagus nerve stimulation on my last post, but in a recent conversation, I realized I wanted to share another personal experience around this wonderous beast, even if it is not directly related to the “C” word. My first experience with this nerve was…
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What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
I had a long talk on the way home yesterday with a good friend of mine who trekked through this same journey a few years ago. She was helping a woman in her club that had gotten notification of an abnormal mammogram. It hit me that just two short months ago, I was getting that…
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The Resurrection
Many of us spent this past weekend celebrating the Easter holiday with family and friends. This Easter was a lot different for me in many ways. The start of 2025 was not the kindest to me. For a number of reasons I won’t disclose here, I was in a very dark place prior to my…
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Back to the Books
I left work for the last day before surgery last week. I sent out a reminder to my fellow chiefs to remind them I would be out next week and that I would keep my work cell phone nearby if anything urgent arose. I heard complete crickets. It’s incredible how much of our entire self…
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The Mental Detox
“Mind over matter”. Many of us say this phrase when giving advice to others, but how many of us actually practice it. I am delayed in this most recent post because to be completely honest, I hit a wall the past day or two. The number of things that you process physically and mentally in…
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The Circle
As much as I hate this, things like cancer or other traumatic things bring people together. This is good yet also bad in some ways. I would always hope that it wouldn’t take things like these to bring people together, but it is in these moments you really do assess those you allow in your…