Waking up to do. Decisions to make. Boundaries to set. Status quos to challenge. This is for anyone surviving anything because there is a certain camaraderie in the incessance of surviving. Life events that
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Why do we sugarcoat things? Because truth is high stakes. And it’s risky. And sometimes we’ve been harmed by its tactlessness or we’ve been manipulated by its manipulator or it has been weaponized. And
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BTDT. Gaslighting. Relentlessness. Get real. “Been there. Done that.” So…I hear this all of the time and it annoys me every single time. This cliché sends a message that life events exist one-dimensionally, that
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The urgent. The trudge. Cancer teaches me things. BothAnd. I have a very different relationship with time now because of cancer. Cancer does this weird thing with time – it becomes crystal clear that
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Words matter. Stop and think before you speak. An unpopular opinion. And a challenge. Growing up my grandma used to call me Mary Mary. But since my name is Amber, for a long time
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Fear of recurrence. Survivor’s guilt. Imposter syndrome. Identity crisis. Often these are viewed as overused buzzwords or stale mental health jargon. Sometimes they are viewed as easy excuses or corny clichés. And in my
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The anxiety has boiled over. Friday I hardly ate.Saturday I couldn’t stand the dogs. Every little thing they did annoyed me. Poor dogs. Yesterday was sensory overload. The noise. And smells. And my clothes. And breathing. Today
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It’s my birthday today. And it’s snowing like crazy. And for anyone that knows me, they know I LOVE snow. Like, LOOOOOOOVE it. So, yay for me. 🙂 Birthdays look different to me now. Today’s
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A Problematic Metaphor We realllllllly don’t like the out-of-control feeling it is to not understand something. We don’t like it when things don’t make sense. We get antsy and prickly when we can’t explain
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I wanna talk about something. . .you know, like I do. . .something about cancer that is rarely talked about among fellow patients, as education for the newly diagnosed, within caregiver groups, and that