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When Well-Meaning People Say the Wrong Things
My best advice is to muster up an abundance of grace and empathy. This is a tough but important topic. You see cancer patients raging about it on social media… “You can’t believe the idiotic thing somebody said to me today.” We’ve all heard them. Yes, they sting. Yes, they fall flat. Yes, those people…
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What Cancer Took Versus What it Gave Me
This simple exercise gave me a new perspective. What did cancer take from me? Well, quite a lot. But what did it give me? Quite a lot, too. Try this exercise, and see if you can make your “gave” list longer than your “took” list. What Cancer Took From Me: What Cancer Gave Me:
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Old-School Tip For Getting Through Hard Things
It’s so simple it works. How you handle hard things can come down to perspective. My dad was good about seeing things from 30,000 feet (Fitting. He was a pilot.). His regular advice to me was a version of, “Someone out there is going through a similar situation but harder.” He’d used that logic himself…
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