Writing helps me cope. How about you, what helps you cope?
This was a tough but quick write.
I suspect it’s a tough read.
Especially if you’ve come to BouncebackCafe.com for a bit of a lift.
Why share this sad poem with you?
I’m thinking that resilience isn’t just about keeping up the good fight in the face of adversity.
It’s also about learning how to work our way through the pain and back when the worst happens.
Whatever the worst might be for each of us.
Continue reading » Walking Beside

Continued from Part 3
When every option has its merits but you can only do ONE – how do you choose the “right” path? Perhaps it’s time to try the fourth of five optimistic approaches to unfuddling your brain. To discover what you want to do, force yourself to make iterative choices between desirable futures.
Paired Choice Comparison Tool
About 20 years ago I arrived at an “aha” moment using a tool called “Paired Comparison”. I needed to understand WHY I wasn’t acting on my long-time desire to go into business for myself.
Continue reading » What Next? – Part Four – Force Yourself to Choose…

NED – “no evidence of disease” is what we expected to hear after the latest, now routine round of tests. Instead, we heard, “it appears there is disease here.” Esophageal cancer is hard to beat down but we thought my husband’s surgery and two chemotherapy regimens, completed a year ago, had beat it down. It had. For a short while. But it is back.
We weren’t expecting this news. And it knocked us for a loop. (Ya think??) We’re still in a state of shock, trying to make sense out of what appears to be a death sentence. But so it was, back in the Fall of 2007, and he managed to beat it down then. And even though last year’s chemo threw him in the hospital for eleven days, he’s signed-on for doing chemo again. That takes guts, let me tell you!
Continue reading » We Got the News…

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