If you know me, you know I enjoy looking for insights from dreams. But I've been on a kind of dream hiatus, having few memorable dreams in the last several months. That has fit right in with this pandemic limbo time, which I started pretty early. Last fall, in fact, I was starting to withdraw, … Continue reading How a dream gave me insight into a new doctor
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Choosing silence
As a part of my healing from breast cancer and its treatments, I'm taking a silent retreat this Monday through next Monday. It's a centering prayer retreat, and about six days of it will be silent. I'll be there with other centering prayer practitioners, and we will meditate together, eat meals together, stay in dorms … Continue reading Choosing silence
And even better and better
Who knew how wonderful it could feel to have more energy, to be able to do household chores and not be exhausted, to run errands and take walks and do daily activities and not have to rest??! I'm up earlier than usual today because I'm bursting with energy. Not manic energy, but the energy that … Continue reading And even better and better
Always something
I'm having more opportunity to work on having no expectations. Lots of people, including medical professionals, have told me that radiation will be much easier than chemo. I started daily radiation treatments last Monday, and on Wednesday night, I noticed swelling. I knew I had a seroma (fluid sac) where the nodes were removed, but … Continue reading Always something
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