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Survivingbreastcancer.org
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How To Stay Positive During Difficult Times
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky you’ll get by. If you smile...
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Disenfranchised Grief
This year more than “forty-two thousand (42,000) woman in the US will die of breast cancer” (BreastCancer.org). At...
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Estrogen Depletion and Snoring
According to the American Sleep Association, 50-70 million US adults have a sleep disorder; 48% of people report snoring and 21% of women ha
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20 Sleep Hacks For A Better Night's Rest
Sleep problems are known to alter the balance of at least two hormones that can influence cancer cells. These are cortisol and melatonin.
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Navigating Breast Cancer Around the Holidays
The holiday season can be a magical, joyous time of year. There’s nothing quite like the period from Thanksgiving (for our friends in the...
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good
The 80–20 concept explains it this way: it commonly takes 20% of the full time allocated to complete 80% of a task, while to complete the l
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Coping with COVID
I can only imagine even more so for our breast cancer community members who are immunocompromised and are at a higher risk if exposed to the
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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The Emotional and Mental Side of Breast Cancer
The mental and emotional health from a breast cancer diagnosis puts a toll on us. Breast cancer isn't just the physical, but the mental too
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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What Is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is what we call a holistic and all-rounded treatment option that could be offered to breast cancer patients. Palliative care
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Breast Cancer, Collective Trauma, and Collective Healing
September 28th, 2019 was a monumental date. It was the weekend before the pink explosion of breast cancer awareness month takes over the...
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Survivor's Guilt
This is such a real thing amongst breast cancer patients and I confess that I had no real concept of how this works until the first person
Survivingbreastcancer.org
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Empathy and Cancer
By Kristie Konsoer Empathy: the ability to understand and share feelings with another. I recently read a blog written by an older woman...
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