Has your relationship with patience and balance changed since your diagnosis?
As the seasons start to shift, March feels like a good time to talk about balance.
Not the polished version — the lived one. Treatment and living, appointments and dinners, showing up for others when your energy is already gone. The quiet, ongoing negotiation between being a patient and being a person.
Balance isn’t a steady state. It shifts. One day it’s planning ahead; the next it’s giving yourself permission to just be here. It’s holding hope and uncertainty in the same breath.
Threaded through all of it is patience. Sometimes patience means waiting — trusting your body, trusting the process, trusting that a better day is coming. Other times — especially when you're living with metastatic disease — patience means something else entirely. It means deciding not to wait. Taking a chance. Booking the trip. Saying yes before doubt gets the final word.
Both take courage. Both are yours to choose.
Take our poll below and share in the poll thread how balance and patience shows up for you right now.
Has your relationship with patience and balance changed since your diagnosis? 10 votes
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It's a constant back and forth; some days I have patience, some days I don't
it’s a constant battle.
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It's a constant back and forth; some days I have patience, some days I don't0