Moments of Joy & Choosing not Fear (video)

September 8, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Reconciling with ‘Why’

September 4, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

“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 […]

Pregnant with cancer (video)

July 18, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]