So, as it’s World Mental Health day today, I thought it might be a good time for me to write another blog post. Over the last couple of years I have found that writing these blogs really helps me to process how I’m feeling and make sense of some of thing things that have been going on in my life. After publishing my last post I was starting to feel like it is time to stop writing, interest in the blogs seems to have waned and I started to convince myself that people were getting fed up of me whining on about cancer. The thing is, I never really wrote these blogs for other people, of course it is always nice to get positive feedback and I did hope that by sharing my own experiences I could help other people, but the main reason was to get the millions of whirling thoughts out of my head and down on paper (metaphorically speaking). I came to the realisation that writing these blogs is good for my mental health, I just need to remind myself that worrying about other people’s reaction to...
A blog about life during and after breast cancer treatment, dealing with grief and trying to find my new normal.