Two-time cancer survivor encourages fellow survivors to develop resilience to cope with cancer.
BY Barbara Tako
PUBLISHED September 10, 2018
Barbara Tako is a breast cancer survivor (2010), melanoma survivor (2014) and author of Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools–We'll Get You Through This. She is a cancer coping advocate, speaker and published writer for television, radio and other venues across the country. She lives, survives, and thrives in Minnesota with her husband, children and dog. See more at www.cancersurvivorshipcopingtools.com,or www.clutterclearingchoices.com.
A cancer diagnosis is as up close and personal as a life event can be. It not only forever changes your life, but it threatens and sometimes succeeds in taking that life away from you. No one wants to hear "You have cancer." I have heard it twice: breast cancer and then a few years later, melanoma. Some people have heard it more than twice! How can we cope with something so big and life changing and frankly, so terrifying? Resilience.
Develop resilience for those moments in life where it suddenly becomes your turn to make lemons into lemonade. Some of us naturally have more resilience than others. All of us can work to develop and increase our personal resilience. Your resilience can help get you through your cancer and those scary days (and nights) that can come up during and after cancer.
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