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 …
8 Lessons About Resilience in the Face of Adversity – From Athlete to Cancer Warrior
When Jeffrey L. Reynolds crossed the finish line at Ironman Florida in November 2021, he thought he had conquered one of life’s ultimate endurance challenges. At 55 years old, after swimming 2.4 …
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 …