Words, Pathways, Journeys

The Power of Creative Spaces

2025-04-18T09:05:49Z

Today I went to my first art therapy session, and I’m writing this now as I sit alone in my garden, reflecting on how it has made me feel. I’ve always loved art and I’ve recently been dabbling in a little home pottery, but it’...(read more)

Moving Onwards

2025-03-18T18:12:41Z

I’ve hardly written anything these last few weeks. My life, all of a sudden, has felt like it has started to right itself around me, to get back onto an even keel. Finishing my chemotherapy has opened everything back up, all those things which ...(read more)

Finding my voice and writing my stories

2025-02-13T18:03:11Z

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...(read more)

Reclaiming some joy

2025-01-26T10:41:11Z

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...(read more)

Writing for mind and body

2025-01-12T10:20:02Z

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...(read more)

Writing as a way of coping

2025-01-07T08:40:00Z

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...(read more)