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Making Friends with My Grief

A conversation with my daughter about the grandfather she never met helped us both heal.

Cancer & Mental Health

Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer

I get by with a little help from my friends

Parenting with Cancer

When cancer complicates body image and parenting

Body image is a critical issue when raising young girls. When mom’s body image is complicated by cancer, things get interesting.

Cancer & Mental Health

It has been almost exactly 5 years since my world was turned upside down with the words “It’s cancer.” In those years, there have been many things that sustained me: my family, my friends. I know I’ve written extensively about how my girls in YSC…

Advocacy

Get Hitched Give Hope 2014

I love this annual wedding planning gala. Get Hitched Give Hope helps to raise funds for the Young Survival Coalition which helps young women living with breast cancer, and the Dream Foundation which helps to grant dreams to people who are at the end of their life journey because of cancer.

Cancer & Mental Health

When Gratitude is Difficult

There have been times, oh so many times, when the thought of compiling a list of things for which to be grateful was a little more than I could bear. Those are moments when gratitude is difficult.

How to Juggle Cancer and Parenting

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series How to Juggle Cancer and Parenting

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, one of the first things I did was head straight to the book store. I was looking for a book that would tell me how to juggle cancer and parenting my infant daughter. I didn’t find anything…

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.