Be as honest as you can with your children. They will know something is wrong. If you talk to them they will be less fearful. I think the unknown is more frightening than the truth.
How to Juggle Cancer and Parenting Series: Linnea’s Story
The complexities of raising strong, happy, well-adjusted children while going through cancer...
How to help kids cope with a parent’s cancer: interview with an oncology social worker
It is important to understand that a child’s anxiety around a parent’s cancer is an appropriate reaction, and not a sign of mental illness. Counseling and group therapy sessions can help kids develop the tools they need to weather the ups and downs of their parent’s cancer treatment.
Cancerversary
Thoughts on cancer, death, and getting busy living on the 4th anniversary of my cancer diagnosis.
Team Sakura and the Tour de Pink
And so they ride. Team Sakura rides to get back at cancer, they ride to support each other, and they ride because they can.
Remembering Candice
We talked about how difficult it is to describe Candice, and have people really understand just how awesome she was, or how deeply her absence is felt, about the urge to insist, “But you don’t understand! This was CANDICE!” Of course people didn’t understand, unless they’d met her. You only had to meet her once to really get it.
2012 – A year in review
A look back at the year that was. I introduced my little girl to one of my favorite pieces of...
Tour de Pink
Cancer didn't make me stronger; it sapped my strength like nothing I've ever experienced before....
Taking back October
My friends are dying, and it’s not for lack of awareness. We don’t need more awareness. What we need is a cure.
Normalizing – in a good way
"People give you 3 months to mourn, and a year to have cancer, then they expect you to get back to...
Get Hitched Give Hope
What happens when you take a few good friends Add some bedazzled furnishings A little finery, and...
Harmony Hill
I've spent the past two days working on a couple projects that have had me knee deep in...