Teach What You Know
By Michelle Didner on May 1st, 2013 Categories: Day-to-Day Matters, The Breast Cancer JourneyAs a yoga teacher and breast cancer survivor, I have learned that we are all students and we are all teachers.
The practice of yoga is intensely personal. It requires a willingness to be vulnerable – to be honest and to trust. It requires a safe place. It requires a safe place inside of yourself. You start there and you slowly begin to move out …
How to Give Yourself a Present on Your Journey: Meditation
By Jean Kane on April 17th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer Journey, Treatment & Side EffectsWhen I was going through treatment, delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and delectable desserts arrived in the “magic cooler” outside my garage door most days for over a month. Someone even made a lunch and delivered it to school for my 6th grader every day for a week (because she is my fourth child, and I’ve made over 6,300 lunches over the years — I …
A New Day: From Diagnosis to Dance!
By Patricia San Pedro on April 10th, 2013 Categories: News, The Breast Cancer JourneyApril 10, 2008 – April 10, 2013
Five years ago today I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My life has been one big whirl-a-twirl ride, filled with roller coaster loops, turns, and rolls, ever since. There have been extreme highs and a few menacing death drops. Yes, breast cancer took me for a ride and changed my life forever; yet, I wouldn’t change a thing.…
Mothers, Daughters, Grandmothers, Sisters, Aunts & Girlfriends: The Link of Hope
By Patricia San Pedro on March 20th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer Journey“The woman is the foundation on which nations are built. She is the heart of her nation. If that heart is weak, the people are weak. If her heart is strong and her mind is clear, then the nation is strong and knows its purpose. The woman is the center of everything.”
Art Solomon
Ojibwe elder and spiritual leader
For the People: Teachings on the …
Yoga and Healing – A Personal Journey
By Michelle Didner on March 4th, 2013 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyI woke up on my 38th birthday to the cool, green walls of a hospital room in Stamford, Connecticut. Just a week earlier, I was on holiday with my husband and 2-year-old son on Block Island. I stood, on my mobile phone, outside the town bookshop as my doctor explained that I needed to be back in Stamford immediately to meet with a surgeon. …
