Get Your Swagger On
johndabell How much swaggage are you carrying? Your self-esteem is built on swagger and so without it you can’t strut your stuff. Getting your swagger on is therefore pretty damn essential…
August 2024
The Asset Model And Cancer
A change in ability status can happen at any moment and cancer certainly changes who you are. Cancer equals loss. There is a loss of control. It robs you of…
Be A ‘ODAATer’
Regardless of who you are and your unique circumstances you can only really take things ODAAT – One Day At A Time. The problem is, many of us are rushing…
Be A Cloud Nine Coordinator
If you saw a Situations Vacant advert for a ‘Cloud Nine Coordinator’ then would you go for it? These positions don’t come up that often so you need to have…
Who Has The Good Cancer?
I’ve read recently a few people referring to a particular cancer as being ‘the good cancer to get’. Riter (2015) notes the following when he says, ….all cancer is bad,…
Cancer And Distractions
Cancer is all-consuming mentally, or, it can be if we let it. Mind demons can wrap us in barbed wire and keep us inside a compound of stress and anxiety.…
Be A Merchant Of Moxie
To get through any of life’s challenges and moments of madness then we need bucket loads of moxie. Merchants of Moxie make it their business to showcase moxie and to…
Get Lost To Find Yourself
When you get an incurable cancer diagnosis, it’s common to go into freefall. I certainly did. I was terrified and the fear was real. I also felt incredibly lost and…
Tragic Optimism And Cancer
Overcoming the poverty of hope looks impossible in the midst of toxic news and life events, but we still have tragic optimism to draw on as articulated by Holocaust survivor…