Archive - Healing Happens

“I know most people try hard to do good and find out too late that they should have tried softer.” Andrea Gibson

Jun 26 •

May 2025

Grief and Soul Food

And then the Universe graciously throws me a life line, some soul food calling me back to life.

May 30 •

April 2025

Solace and joy are something I desperately need these days. Where do you find them?

Apr 21 •

March 2025

Down the Rabbit Hole

I’m still here. Cancer is still here. The weight of the world is still here. But so is beauty, and that is where I choose to live.

Mar 7 •

October 2024

On Laughter, Bitterness and Joni

Cancer is merciless and cruel and f**ked up. Cancer is also random, which is why I know that when I ask “why”, I am asking a question with no answer. I…

Oct 29, 2024 •

Lately life feels like weaving together different strands of weft into the warp structure of this lifetime. Unlike my grandma, I have no idea what…

Oct 3, 2024 •

September 2024

An Alchemy of Healing

What makes an experience, a place, a space healing?

Sep 13, 2024 •

August 2024

A Home in My Life

I think it is because I inhabit my life in a different way post-diagnosis. I am learning to sink into seconds, into moments, not just because they are…

Aug 2, 2024 •

July 2024

Snapshots of June: Pride and Neon Signs

We’ve come a long way baby. We have a long way to go. Two things can be true at the same time.

Jul 1, 2024 •

June 2024

and why I am not a warrior

Jun 6, 2024 •

May 2024

Once again, I am caught up in the way time and space collapse as I can see a cinematic fade from one generation to the next, as if we are part of a…

May 28, 2024 •

Metastatic Love

What if we could metastasize love, breaking off love cells and sending them out into the body, into each other, into the ethers to set up home and…

May 9, 2024 •

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