The Waiting Room Inside Your Head: Learning to Live with Scanxiety
There’s a particular kind of dread that cancer survivors know intimately. It doesn’t announce itself with sirens or dramatic music. It creeps in quietly, sometimes weeks before an …
Cancer Screenings Saved My Life Twice (And Why You Can’t Skip Yours)
I'm writing this not from a hospital bed, but from my home office, cancer-free and training for my next race. I'm here because two routine screenings caught two different cancers at treatable stages.
Your Body Isn’t a Temple; It’s a Training Ground for Life’s Biggest Challenges
How we think about our bodies fundamentally shapes how we live in them, care for them, and ultimately, what we expect from them when life gets tough.
The Friendship Test: How to Show Up When Cancer Calls
The friends who helped me most understood that cancer is less about what you say and more about showing up consistently.
Ringing the Bell: Why Cancer ‘Victory’ Feels So Complicated
The bell-ringing ceremony assumes that cancer has a clear beginning, middle and end. In reality, cancer is more like an ongoing conversation with your own mortality that begins with diagnosis and …