well-being in the face of hard times

Posts Tagged living with uncertainty

well-being in the face of hard times

By Bridgett on Friday, March 20th, 2015 | No Comments

How do you hang onto your well-being when life hands out hard stuff? Since my cancer diagnosis, I have become keenly aware of how much my attitude shapes my life. You don’t have to have cancer to know this. There are plenty of life challenges to go around. No matter what difficulty comes your way, […]

enduring the hard stuff

By Bridgett on Sunday, January 4th, 2015 | 5 Comments

Humor infused… Here in this New Year I have been thinking a lot about life’s challenges and transformations. The challenges come to all of us in many forms…relationship struggles, job problems, grieving loss, managing difficult emotions, health issues…the list goes on. We all want to know it’s possible to endure the hard stuff. Speaking from experience, I […]

the intrinsic power of change

By Bridgett on Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 | 10 Comments

“Hey, you look good,” has been the greeting du jour following my long ordeal of surgery and chemotherapy. I suspect “you look good” reflects so much more than a warm salutation. It’s certainly is not my looks. My typical attire is a t-shirt and baggy jeans. I am pretty sure friends are expressing, with all […]

the powerful language of cancer

By Bridgett on Saturday, October 4th, 2014 | 6 Comments

My dear friend Cheryl Jones, shared a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to her mother who died this past week of cancer. One part stood out for me when she said, “for her, cancer was not a battle. It was an experience. It was her last experience.” I found these words to describe an incredibly beautiful perception. I wrote to Cheryl – […]

4 stages too late

By Bridgett on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 | No Comments

A year ago today, I was tossed into the vortex of our health care system. A cat scan revealed that I had enlarged lymph nodes in my abdominal cavity. It took 4 long weeks to get my final diagnosis…stage 4 ovarian cancer. The five year survival rate for this cancer is less than 10 […]

chronic and inevitable

By Bridgett on Sunday, July 13th, 2014 | No Comments

I have been trying to put my finger on why I am obsessed with recurrence. Maybe it’s not so weird for someone with cancer, but, hey…I’m new at this. But why would I be antsy to have a recurrence come sooner than later? What’s up with that? It’s not that I am hopeless, or depressed. It’s more […]

trusting my gut

By Bridgett on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 | No Comments

When hard changes come and life’s transitions are in front of me, I gotta trust my gut. Through trusting my gut, I have come to know these things to be true… I am the only one who can create real change in my life – No other being can change who I really am. Not my parents, […]

good can come from hard times

By Bridgett on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 | No Comments

Sometimes life deals us hard stuff. Changes, transitions, loss, grief. When I tackle these difficult, sometimes painful aspects of life, good things can come of it. I don’t mean that it doesn’t hurt to lose a relationship, or it isn’t stressful to make changes in our work or homes. It doesn’t mean we don’t have fear when illness come knocking […]

living from the heart

Posts Tagged living with uncertainty