Healing cancer through motherhood
Three weeks before my son was born I learned that the tumor lodged in my brain was growing. Here’s a little vignette of how that went and what I did to cheer myself up. It’s natural to feel disempowered when bad news comes our way. While enmeshed in hardship we cannot see that we have […]
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A cathartic release as I revisit past trauma and express the tremendous love, gratitude and guilt I feel towards my husband. I think most people can feel a lot of different things at the same time. It wasn’t an easy decision to post this video but I remain committed to sharing an honest depiction of […]
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Here I talk about some of the things making me feel anxious: potential cancer treatment, becoming a mom, getting adequate support, hiding the diagnosis from friends and family… there was a lot going on at the time. This is the first time I admitted to myself how terrified I was of undergoing chemotherapy (I was […]
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In this video, I talk about some of the coping strategies I used to get through each day after learning the cancer had returned. Most of these are strategies I’ve gained from years of therapy to manage depression and anxiety. I was 24-years old when I first sought out counseling. My therapist shared the same […]
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“WHY ME?” A question I used to ask myself daily. In the depths of depression, I couldn’t come up with an answer that made any sense to me. Nobody else could either. I had died but I also hadn’t. I almost lost everything but then didn’t. I witnessed several people take their last breaths in […]
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This was my first video diary entry recorded one week after learning about a brain tumor growing in my body again. I had trouble processing how I felt about this news while also expecting a baby to arrive in the coming months. These two realities seemed to contradict one another. It helped me to speak […]
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On certain days, particularly when it’s overcast, rainy, cold, I find myself feeling vulnerable and in fragments. Like a shattered clay pot. For a long time I felt broken. I felt betrayed by my body and incapable of performing any mundane daily tasks, let alone creating life. My first cancer diagnosis arrived years ago, while […]
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Hello friends, my name is Heidi and whether or not you feel it I am holding your hand. I’m holding your hand through depression, through motherhood, through cancer – whatever you’re dealing with, I see your burden and wish to help you carry them. Why? Because I get it. I get that that depression can […]
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