Mindfully Malignant

 Can you work up to your potential—and have fun doing it??? Hell ya!
Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about becoming the best version of yourself. Challenge yourself, keep growing, and enjoy the good, the bad, and the ugly. When you combine effort with joy, amazing things can happen.

How do you find your joy? 
My go-to is nature, music, and bargain shopping.

Life moves fast, don’t forget to look for the little things that make you smile: laughing, a sunset, a kind word—joy is often found in the moments we slow down enough to notice.

I’m showing my age, but you can’t start the summer without Will Smith!

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Does laughing about this help?
Yep! This t-shirt is a riot! Wish I had it back in the day.
**kcancer

Who knows what it’s like to be going along and living your life, doing the best you can to carve out your little world and then your entire world falls out from under you?

This is not a club that I thought I would ever belong to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My new motto for being a cancer survivor, with so many diseases as a result of chemo, is that I’m trying to balance being grateful and hateful.

I’ve talked to so many cancer survivors, chronic pain endurers,
trauma survivors and they all say that as grateful as they are to be alive, theres a normal level of grief for our suffering: the amount of pain and energy that it takes to stay alive and thrive.
You can hate the world and still be grateful to be alive.

I mean, look at me in my bathing suit. I see a science experiment. I would rather wear a trash bag over me to the beach or a pool than be seen in a bathing suit anymore. I hate looking like a freak of nature. 
My usual method of dealing is making a joke about it. But it’s impossible to always reframe thoughts and feel better.
So be bitter, let it go, repeat.