5 Things I Took For Granted Before I Got Cancer
A year ago, my life was pretty amazing. And then in an instant my dream was shattered by three little words, ‘You have cancer.’ Hearing those words was like sitting strapped in your rollercoaster seat about to plummet from its heights screaming down the tiny track, surrendering control to a force greater than you. But instead
How To Care For Someone With Cancer
Nearly every day someone shares with me that a friend of theirs has just been diagnosed with cancer. Nearly… every… day. The incidence of cancer are extraordinary with one in two people contracting this insidious disease before the age of 85. But that is a conversation for another day. I am not sure quite how it
Leaning In When You’d Rather Run
I turned fifty a few weeks ago and I’d like to think that all those years have brought some perspective and a healthy dose of wisdom on this experience we call ‘life’. And the more I take pause and reflect on all the ups and downs that have made up my journey thus far, it
What Are You Striving For?
I learned somewhere along the way that I needed to strive to survive. That somehow who I was was never quite enough. If only I studied more, read more, worked harder, produced more that I would ‘succeed’. That I would get ahead. That in some perverse way my life would be worthwhile. Or that I
God, Are You There?
Big Questions I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February this year, a second diagnosis in just five years. I may have gotten off ‘lightly’ the first time around but my second brush with my mortality was far more sinister. The cancerous tumour was deemed aggressive and had spread to my lymph nodes which meant I
The Greatest Gift
Do you ever feel like you’re living life on auto-pilot? Just going through the motions, numbed out and questioning what life is really all about? I can honestly say that this has been me for the better part of my life. Zombie land. Day in, day out. Until one day in 2015, I found myself in
Bride Stripped Bare
Have you ever had your life thrown upside-down and inside-out making your reality virtually unrecognisable? That murky place between what was familiar and a ‘new’ normal on the horizon full of uncertainty? I call it the eye of the storm… and that is where I sit at the moment. Late last year I was super excited
