
Exercising Safely After Treatment: How to Get Started
By Cathy Bryan, Certified Cancer and Exercise Trainer (CET) on July 13th, 2011 Categories: Day-to-Day MattersI’m not usually one who says things like, “it takes a special person to do so and so,” but breast cancer survivors are special people. I’ve found that working with survivors challenges me and makes me want to go to work every day!
We all know that exercise is good for us. We all know the positive benefits of exercise. Now you just need to …

Body to Pat: Pay Attention
By Patricia Prijatel on July 6th, 2011 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyFor most of my life, I have been oblivious to myself. Sure, I was pretty confident about who I was; I knew I was smart, capable, funny, but I knew this on an intellectual level, not an emotional or, most important, a physical one. In the 15 months before I was diagnosed, I had four bladder infections. Intellectually I knew something was wrong with my …