Power To Be Happy: Journey of Healing, Together

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

On this show we talk about finding happiness if you've been to the place of struggle. Each week I am sharing what I learned from dealing with cancer, anxiety and daily challenges. These experiences don't have us to back and we can try as we might to figure out our best way forward! This week, I'm going deep on purpose because it's so easy to lose sight of it in the challenging world of today. Ther...

Do you sometimes hate yourself for those ugly thoughts that just pop into your head sometimes? Don’t they feel rotten and wrong?! My instinct says – that’s not me, I don’t know you, go away and leave me alone! And what happens? It stays with you, circling, like a vulture, waiting to pounce when you can’t distract yourself any longer. Listen, it may not happen often, but it’s bad when it does...

When you have something or someone that you care for deeply in your life, then you will also be petrified at the prospect of losing it. It may be because we know life to be fragile. It may be the memory of all that was lost, or the murky outcrops of the future that lies in wait… For all that you know and imagine, you cannot close yourself off from worry. It starts out as a what if, a distant noise...

If you’re not JEALOUS by nature, but want things that other people have… And you don’t? Right or wrong, I just can’t help it… But isn’t it a natural way to feel, sometimes? And if that’s the case, maybe then you could even rid yourself from feeling weird or guilty? More so, I believe we can use our envy for good – to pull you forward instead of my holding you back: If you are looking f...

Have you ever felt weird about wanting to make friends, and didn’t know how to go about it, or bring it up in a conversation? Maybe you moved to a new town, or life’s taken a turn… And now you’re on your own, and you want to meet people who get you and like you for who you really are. There is not one thing that could be wrong about that, is there? And yet, it can be so awkward to open up about it...

I don’t want the world to remind me how I’m coming up short. Short on living, short on dreams, short on expectation… Or am I? Maybe this is what boredom really is – afraid of being not enough so why keep trying. But I want to win. Grab life and shake it, just so the good things fall out. And there are no leftovers of what might’ve been. So how do you get out of bed when you’re not enou...

It’s only two weeks, and I get called into the boss’s office. The blinds are shut, but I know they’re there, trying to catch a glimpse of what is really going on this stifling, dark room. I wasn’t the first. There were two or three of us who went into that office determined, only to come out mute, shielding their eyes from the rest of us. And so it was my turn. Let’s see what this is, I thought. W...

It’s the rush you get when your dream come alive, and you can see it so clearly, even before it happens. You’ve been waiting for it so long, and you worked hard for it… So of course it’s the big break you’ve been waiting for all time – and no doubt you deserve it! And all the signs are pointing in the right direction so it’s no wonder you’re excited and you’re making plans for how you’...

So we go to the doctor today with Max, and what he say? You must watch out because it could be… MENINGITIS. Just like that, with a word, you are transported to our time with Michael. The seizure. The rush to the hospital. The face of the paramedic rushing us in through the white doors. The sedation. I could go on… We are so lucky because it was THIS close. But you never forget that cho...

When you don’t believe in yourself, believe in what you do. Believe in the work you put in because if your intentions are good, you’ve got the hope on your side. This hope may not seem like much… And you might not even see it as such – until later. When Max was one, we’d be going around the house each night and he’d point up at the ceiling or the lamps saying: “Light! Light!” Then he’d...

Isn’t it weird how everyone talks about mindfulness, but no one seems to know how to put it to work it in everyday life? And how do you even know that you’re actually doing it? Many times I found myself staring into space in an attempt to find calm and relax, but no matter how hard I tried, my head swelled up with noise and random thoughts… Instead of enlightenment or clarity, I wound up fee...

It’s two minutes before my library talk. Tonight I am sharing the three biggest lessons I got from cancer about tackling uncertainty in everyday life. The people waiting and it’s about to start. I run through the main talking points in my head. But what will they think, I wonder? What if they find it shallow? Or dull, which is even worse? I sat down on the bench, burying my face in my hands. Shoul...

If you had a magic wand and you could make a wish to turn back time, which would you choose: Undo something bad that happened to you Follow through on something that you regret not doing or made the wrong decision It’s a tough choice, but I would choose to undo something that was outside of my control because even if I made plenty of mistakes, I hope I learned something that might help me next tim...