Apr 4, 2024 | Director's Reflections |
Dear Friends, As I write this on March 26, it is the 30th anniversary of our first Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving™ conference, held in Monterey, California on March 26 and 27, 1994. There were 280 people there, mostly women, and it was such a...
Nov 4, 2023 | Director's Reflections
My prayer has always been, “Lord, make me an instrument.” I want to use my gifts and talents in a way that benefits others. Healing Journeys has been an avenue for my prayer to be answered for the past 30 years. Thousands of people have benefitted from our...
Apr 21, 2023 | Director's Reflections |
It’s not unusual to feel two very different emotions at the same time. I am relieved and happy to have finished writing my memoir. I am also feeling vulnerable, nervous and fearful, thinking about all the personal details of my life that will soon be exposed to the...
Feb 20, 2023 | Director's Reflections |
People have been telling me for a long time that I should write a book. They said my story of living and thriving with cancer for over 30 years is inspiring. But I didn’t think I was a writer. I had just started taking a writing class with Terri Tate when the pandemic...
Jul 27, 2022 | Director's Reflections |
Those of you who read my blog know that my breast cancer, which metastasized to my lungs in 2011, has been progressing in the past few months. In Chinese medicine, grief is related to the lungs. In the eleven years I have been living with cancer in my lungs, I’ve...
Feb 7, 2022 | Director's Reflections
You can still register for the free Speaker Series Webinar on Saturday, February 12th at 10 a.m. PST. Michael Finkelstein, MD, will be talking about Staying Healthy During the Time of COVID. The focus of what we hear on the media is on getting vaccinated to prevent...
