Combating cancer can leave us drained.
PUBLISHED July 29, 2018
Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com
We all deserve a vacation from our cancer. It's a long, often grueling road we're on, and quite naturally it can be overwhelming sometimes. Stress is a slow-burning fire. It seems to reside somewhere in our solar plexus, stirring our intestines and roughing up those butterflies that flutter about inside of us.
So it's only natural that we get sick and tired of being sick and tired at times. But how we deal with the anxiety of cancer is perhaps just as important as how we manage the clinical side of our disease. After all, it is what we actually feel and emotionally process each day that creates our "happy thoughts" bathed in endorphins, or our negative reactions, along with the accompanying stress hormones like Cortisol.
We don't have to be chemists to understand how our bodies, and possibly our cancer, react to the mental exhaustion that can go along with our quest for health and healing.
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