How to build good self-care habits for a better life with cancer.
PUBLISHED March 19, 2019
Martha lives in Illinois and was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in January 2015. She has a husband and three children, ranging in age from 12 to 18, a dog and a lizard.
Self-care. Even today, in the midst of years of living with metastatic cancer, I hear those words and I think, "Ugh. What am I supposed to be doing now to make my life better?"
Pre-cancer, I thought of self-care in the simplest of terms: eat well and exercise. I could do those two things but, with cancer, those two things and so much more just to live life require my focused attention. Self-care burn-out? I've felt it.
Pre-cancer, I thought of self-care in the simplest of terms: eat well and exercise. I could do those two things but, with cancer, those two things and so much more just to live life require my focused attention. Self-care burn-out? I've felt it.
So, when a self-care Bingo card started making the rounds on social media sites last week, I didn't immediately take a look. I already know self-care too often falls to the bottom of a to-do list that inexplicably grows longer while I sleep and shrinks at an imperceptible pace.
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