Cancer And Presilience
johndabell People often talk about resilience and bouncing back or springing forward but what comes before that? Well, there is a word for it and it is ‘presilience’. Presilience is what…
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Be A Digger Of Hardiness
When we talk about plants being hardy, we mean that they can stand up to low temperatures and survive. When we talk about hardiness in people, we mean the ability…
Give It The Old College Try
When was the last time you gave it the old college try? When was the last time you really tried your very hardest? When did you last give it your…
Cancer And Being A Resistance Fighter
We all navigate and manage the reality of cancer in our own way. I choose to manage my day-to-day brushes with the cancer experience as a resistance fighter. In other…
Cancer, Mission Control And Taking Risks
The nerve centre for American human spaceflight is NASA’s Mission Control Centre in the Johnson Space Centre, Houston. It has been described as something like an emergency call centre or…
Cancer And Being Vital
Vitality is having physical and mental energy. It is a core construct of our health and well-being that encompasses self-care, self-awareness and self-compassion. The word vitality itself is derived from…
Cancer And Good News
One of the hardest parts of cancer can be getting good news. That sounds counterintuitive. How can getting good news be anything other than a good thing? Well, getting it…
Cancer And The ‘F’ Word
Some people like to tell cancer to ‘do one’. Others go further and use the ‘F’ word. They use the ‘F*ck cancer’ message and #fuckcancer as a loudspeaker to tell…
Cancer: All The World’s A Stage
Exit stage left. Exit stage right. As a Stage IV head and cancer patient, I’m not interested in leaving the stage. I intend to stay on it for as long…
Making Sense Of Cancer
Is it possible to ever make sense of cancer? Cancer appears to make no sense whatsoever. Why would the body attack itself and press the self-destruct button? Isn’t this biological…