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August 09, 2015What is legacy?
Around here, legacy isn’t only something you leave behind; it’s something you work on and create throughout your life, no matter if you’re stage 1 or stage 4, a cancer survivor or a supporter.
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July 22, 2015Finding beauty in my scars
“At first I was embarrassed of my scars. I thought they were ugly. It also didn’t help that people wanted to see them. Their reactions were always similar: “Ouch! That must of hurt!” Yep, it sure did. I felt like a freak.”
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July 20, 2015
Body image, cancer, and me
“Sure, I have some scars, lost some hair, but the main thing is that I’m still here fighting.”
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July 08, 2015I am not who I once was, and that’s ok
When I was finished having a good cry over the loss of my athletic days, I realized that I had much more to offer the world than my ability to triple jump or play defense. Sure, I used to be sporty, but that was only a small part of my identity.
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July 07, 2015Nanny Angel Network helping families in the GTA
Audrey Guth, founder of Nanny Angel Network, writes about what inspired her to start a non-profit to provide free, reliable childcare to families dealing with cancer.
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June 29, 2015Off with her hair!
I have a newborn, a two-year-old daughter, and a soon-to-be six-year-old boy. And, I have metastatic cancer. Go big or go home.
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June 26, 2015
Start building a legacy
“Knowing that you can do something good with your story—turning pain into something positive—is a good purpose to have.”
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June 24, 2015
Moral struggles of young adults with cancers
When something disruptive happens in life, the work of mourning our losses often involves building causal links around the disruption—it’s not an outright scientific endeavour, but it is often grounded in rich, personal experiences and observations.
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May 31, 2015A good news fertility story
“I did not expect my last round of IVF to work, and just wanted to get it over with, use up our last embryos, and move on with our life as a couple. I was shocked when I got the positive pregnancy test.”
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April 30, 20156 tips for dealing with survivor's guilt
“It is rare in our grown up lives that we get to experience new and unusual feelings, and at that moment at the age of 24, I was experiencing what I knew to be survivor’s guilt for the first time.”
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February 18, 2015
Four a.m.
“…when I peel back all the layers and complicated feelings, there is nothing wrong with how I feel. After all I have been through, this is how it should be. Life is complex and I believe beauty can be found in the cracks of darkness.”
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February 04, 2015
Time to hang up the cape
Corrina put on a brave face for her friends and family and did her best to make them comfortable with her diagnosis. Really, she was feeling pressure and anxiety.
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“Since everyone had interpreted this guise as true, they assumed I was fine and never asked how things really were. And so the loneliness cycle had begun. They did not know, and I did not tell them.”
