Six tips to help manage holiday stress after loss or a cancer diagnosis. Are you feeling stressed about the holidays, or rather, about all the expectations? Who isn’t, right? Let’s talk about a few tips that might help in managing holiday stress following loss or a cancer diagnosis. For tips specific to getting through the …
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November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, so the timing is perfect for me to feature a guest post from Mary Landberg, author of Enduring Love: Inspiring Stories of Love and Wisdom at the End of Life. Mary is a hospice RN and she has incorporated her love of photography into her hospice work …
I admit it; I suffer from nipple envy. I have been for quite some time, but it’s taken me a long while to publish this post. I’m not entirely sure why. Okay, yes I am. Nipple talk is awkward. Nipples are such tiny features of our anatomy, but they are pretty darn important features, especially …
Death with dignity — is there such a thing? Update: It’s been eight years since this story broke, went viral, and I wrote this post. The controversary remains. By now, most of you have heard or read the news story about Brittany Maynard, the young woman who decided to end her own life before her …
At the beginning of summer, my dad announced he intended to be done with the flower garden space in his backyard. It has become too much work for him to take care of and he decided to hire someone to come and ‘undo the garden.’