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End Cancer’s Hidden Toll
At Mission Remission, we’re fighting for a world where no cancer survivor faces poverty or barriers to work…
‘Eating is such a struggle’
I used to enjoy going out for meals, but I find that impossible now, because of my inability to swallow. I…
It’s All Yoga
In 2018, aged thirty-nine, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer. It came as a huge shock; I was…
‘My mental health has been such a challenge’
My extreme anxiety has always lurked within me for as far back as I can remember. I like to call her Annie…
‘My anxiety became overwhelming’
In August 2019 I received a diagnosis that changed my life: triple negative breast cancer. Today, I’m…
Journalling: how it helped
After going for a routine mammogram at the age of 64, I received a recall letter and immediately entered the…
‘Raising my son was the priority’
People often ask if I developed my carefree hell-for-leather attitude to life after having cancer and I tell…
How creativity helped my recovery
Prior to my diagnosis with breast cancer, I had spent thirty years working as a dental surgery assistant,…
‘I visualised cancer as an ocean reef…’
June 2019: I’m sitting in my favourite chair, three months after a massive operation, just popped an…
My Place to Dwell…
Dwell: to linger, to delay, to reside.
“But dad, can’t we just play cricket…
‘I deserve to live the life I want’
I feel as if I have so much I want to share that I’ve learned over the past three years about both my inner…
Meditation became my saving grace
Back in 2021, life threw me a curveball – a breast cancer diagnosis when I was 31 weeks pregnant. It…