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Traveling After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis - Part 3: Enjoying Your Stay
In Part 1 of this series, “Planning and Packing”, I looked at things you can do in advance of your trip to help make things easier and more enjoyable when traveling after a breast cancer diagnosis.
In Part 2, “On the Move”, I detailed how to navigate the actual travel portion via trains, planes, and automobiles.
Now we’ve finally reached the best part - enjoying your time away!
Traveling After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis - Part 2: On the Move ✈️ 🚉 🚙
Traveling in modern times has many conveniences and also a lot of headaches.
An itinerary including planes, trains, automobiles can translate to long lines, frustrating delays, lost luggage, and cancelled hotel rooms.
The last thing you need whether traveling for work or pleasure is the added discomfort of a lymphedema flare up or pain from scar tissue and limited range of motion.
Traveling After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis - Part 1: Planning and Packing
Cancer's impact on my ability to travel far and freely is one of the greatest concerns of my personal survivorship but, I have learned a lot through both my career and personal experience about how to make sure that traveling after a breast cancer diagnosis is not only doable but safe and enjoyable!
And while my trips may take me farther than some of you are inclined to go, there are a lot of lessons that can be relevant from your easiest day trip all the way to your grandest adventure.
Spring Cleaning: Breast Cancer Self-Care Edition
While most people recognize spring cleaning as a time to wash the windows and vacuum the baseboards after a long winter indoors, it’s also a great time to clean up your personal belongings and self-care routines!
This is especially helpful when you are living with a breast cancer diagnosis or history, because if you’re like me, it probably takes more than it used to keep you functioning at your best.
Ready to channel this fresh spring energy into refreshing more than just your home?
What is “Dry Brushing”? A Guide to Your New Breast Cancer Self-Care Obsession.
If you're like many people, you might have heard the term dry brushing before (or maybe not?!) but you're not sure what it is or what it can do for you.
Today, I’m going to share an overview of dry brushing that will help you understand what the fuss is all about and decide if this easy, portable self-care practice is for you.
What Exactly IS “Breast Cancer Self-Care”? (part 2)
Self-care is a critical part of recovery and survivorship. It’s how we take our power back.
But you’ve got to know exactly what that means as it relates to your body and life, as you are now, on this side of a breast cancer diagnosis.
I’m doing a deep dive and breaking down everything you need to know about breast cancer self-care, including how to make it effective and relevant regardless of where you are on your breast cancer timeline.
What Exactly is “Breast Cancer Self-Care”? (part 1)
If you’ve experienced a breast cancer diagnosis, you know that it changes everything - who you see in the mirror, what you believe about your body, and how you experience day to day life.
And while we spend a lot of time focused on our medical team and support systems for recovery and healing, one thing that often gets overlooked or sidelined is real, relevant self-care that supports you during treatment, recovery, and survivorship.
Today, I’m going to introduce everything you need to know about breast cancer self-care and how to get started.
The thing missing from your breast cancer-related self-care is probably your SELF.
Look, I know the term self-care isn’t new.
In fact it’s way overused and often without much substance.
And sometimes, when you’re searching for external resources and tools, like so often happens during and after a breast cancer diagnosis, you lose track of the finer details of what self-care really means.
But self-care is actually one of the most critical parts of recovery and survivorship so making it relevant to you and your experience is why I’m here and what we’re going to figure out today.
I’m going to help you put the SELF back in your survivorship self-care and why it can be the difference to ditching the overwhelm and actually following through with self-care practices and routines you enjoy.