Words, Pathways, Journeys

  • Finding my voice and writing my stories

    Being diagnosed with cancer has made me think about who I am in a different way. There have been so many moments when I’ve felt that it has broken me into a million different pieces, and I’ve been faced with the task, yet again, of piecin...
  • Reclaiming some joy

    It often feels like an uphill struggle to find any joy in amongst the fear, anxiety and, at times, depression that my cancer diagnosis has brought into my life. At times, I’ll be honest, it’s felt like an impossible task, with joy a dista...
  • Writing for mind and body

    One of the things I’ve really struggled with since my diagnosis, has been the way that my body had clearly been in trouble for a good while before I even had an inkling that something wasn’t right. How can that be? How can I have experien...
  • Writing as a way of coping

    The purpose of my blog is to share how I’ve used writing to help me cope with my cancer journey, in the hope that this may be of interest or help for someone else dealing with their own cancer journey, or perhaps supporting someone in this posi...