Who Has The Good Cancer?
johndabell 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,…
2024
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…
Be Your Own Cheerleader
Job for today: be a cheerleader for someone else and get the best out of them. That’s a job worth doing and worth doing well. You cheer them on, that…
Cancer And Metanoia
If there’s one thing that a cancer diagnosis brings about and that’s metanoia. Metanoia means to change your mind and have a new perspective on the world and/or yourself. Cancer…
Optimism As A Prophylactic
Prophylactic, or preventive, healthcare has an important role in helping us stay healthy. In medicine, the term prophylactic is used to describe procedures and treatments that prevent something from happening.…
Donate Your Mental Wealth
There are lots of things that you can donate. Money is the obvious one. A philanthropic act works wonders and you don’t need to be a billionaire to make a…
Shakespeare, Cancer And Stage Presence
As the immortal bard reminds us: “All the world’s a stage; And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;” Although medical references are…