{"id":3625,"date":"2012-05-22T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2021-03-18T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:26:44","slug":"a-relearning-how-to-dream-after-cancer-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/a-relearning-how-to-dream-after-cancer-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"A relearning how to dream after cancer blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those were the words I wrote without thinking: \u201ca relearning how to dream after cancer blog.\u201d I was shocked when I looked back and saw that I described my blog in this manner<\/a>. Since writing the post, I’ve gone back and stared at those words countless times. To be honest, the words make me a little uncomfortable. Those hastily written words contain truths I didn’t realize were simmering under the surface.<\/p>\n

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Friday Night I found myself on stage at Courage Night<\/a> as one of five women reading our work about surviving cancer. In the Q&A session, as I was describing how my blog had evolved, I recited this line from that blog post<\/a>: “CoffeeJitters has been a single girl making her way in the world blog, a wedding blog, an infertility blog, a photography blog, a quitting my job and going back to school full time blog, a wow! I\u2019m pregnant! blog, a mommy blog, a cancer blog, ….” except I swallowed the words “a relearning how to dream after cancer blog.”<\/p>\n

No, in a room full of cancer survivors, women I love and trust, and who understand better than any one else, I could barely voice those words I had already published. I’m still not quite sure whether I said them out loud when I was at the mic.<\/p>\n

I am currently taking Susannah Conway’s “Blogging from the Heart” class, which is proving to be more magical that I could have ever dreamed. This class is also bringing me face to face with that line – “a trying to relearn how to dream after cancer blog.” She is asking me to dig deep, and think about the purpose of my blog. It is easy to spot the focus on gratitude and appreciation of everyday magic, but this blogging practice is also challenging me to stretch.<\/p>\n

Just as a physical injury can leave the body bound up in a tight little ball of muscle, the emotional trauma can have a similar impact on the spirit. Yoga and stretching and movement will little by little improve the flexibility and range of the body, but it’s sometimes painful and frightening. It is work that exists entirely outside of the comfort zone. I’ve reached the point where I understand what I have been intuitively trying to do, yet simultaneously resisting – to improve the flexibility and range of my imagination, of my ability to re-dream my future.<\/p>\n

The process is slow and difficult, but looking back I can see how I have gradualy expanded the time frame of my dreams. Since diagnosis, I’ve had trouble imagining my life more than a few weeks or months ahead. Now my dreams stretch as far as five years out. Some day soon, I’ll be able to imagine myself at my daughter’s high school graduation.<\/p>\n

Here’s to sweet dreams.<\/p>\n

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\nWW Linkup<\/strong>
\nEvery week I host a photo linkup where we share posts featuring a photo. It started out being called Wordless Wednesday, but\u2026 Bloggers? Wordless? Then we started calling it Wordy Wednesday. Now we just abreviate to WW, and you pick for yourself whether or not to get wordy.<\/p>\n

Link up your photo post below to share, and we\u2019ll be by to visit.<\/p>\n

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