Two years and counting ∼ BC Becky

Happiness and hiking, it’s about the journey not the destination #yogamooc

Wed November 1, 2017

I watched the #YogaMOOC video on A river of wellbeing and struggled with what she was trying to say. I had my husband listen to the video as well…

Authentic smiling as a coping mechanism

Sat October 28, 2017

Two years and counting

In doing my PhD research, one of the things I noticed is that I took many pictures of myself smiling. This was done in part because I wanted to…

Goals for YogaMOOC – and breathing after breast cancer surgery

Wed October 25, 2017

Navigating the new me

This week we were challenged with setting our goals for Yoga MOOC - truth be told, I didn't watch the entire goal video. I'm good at setting small manageable…

YogaMOOC – Yoga and body awareness after breast cancer surgery

Tue October 24, 2017

Two years and counting

Yesterday I tried to do the full yoga class that launched week 1 of yoga MOOC. I wish that the video began with a statement about being kind to…

Are you your disease?

Wed October 18, 2017

Survivorship

My research looks at the first 35 weeks of my personal experience with breast cancer as I've documented it on this blog. A couple of the themes associated with my…

Yoga MOOC

Wed October 18, 2017

Two years and counting

With a little help from my friends, I've decided to jump in and try out the Yoga MOOC - which starts next week (this week is week 0). A…

patient generated 5-minute medical history

Fri October 6, 2017

Opinion

While I was out hiking today, I got to thinking - thinking about one of the challenges I face with complex medical conditions. One of the problems I run…

Friends

Wed September 20, 2017

Emotional Journey

I have not written in a while. I'm finding myself struggling to write, in part because my struggle isn't really my struggle, so much as it is the struggle…

Eclipses

Sun September 3, 2017

Two years and counting

They say that seeing a partial solar eclipse is nothing like seeing totality. xkcd sums it up nicely in this image: CC-A-NC - retrieved from https://xkcd.com/1880/ This was the…

Nancy’s summer blog post challenge

Mon August 21, 2017

Navigating the new me

Thanks to Marie's weekly round-up, I did not miss this year's summer blog post challenge from Nancy. This year's challenge involved answering 10 questions. I found myself linking back…