How To Remember A Loved One Who Has Passed Away
How do you remember someone you loved? Try these suggestions.
Part 3: How To Jumpstart The Cancer Talk With Children: Acting Out
How to respond to a child acting out when a family member has cancer. Help a child understand their emotions and gain control over behavior.
Part 2: How To Jumpstart The Cancer Talk With Children and Why
Why tell children about a cancer diagnosis? To avoid secrecy, teach values and minimize fear.
M.C. Plays Hide & Seek Awarded 5-Star Review
I'm so excited about the first 5-star review by Readers Favorite for M.C. Plays Hide & Seek. The review is extensive and rated by the following categories: Appearance, Plot, Development, Formatting, Marketability, Overall Opinion. "M.C. Plays Hide and Seek: An Empowering Story for Healthy Children Who Care About a Person Living with Cancer, written by [...]
Jumpstart Conversations Around Cancer with M.C. Plays Hide & Seek
How will you make this Thanksgiving meaningful? Need some new ideas to infuse quality into your time together as a family? After recovering from cancer and getting a second chance at life, I had regrets. I was so busy running children around, I didn’t take time to teach life values in a meaningful way. So, [...]
Mister Rogers: You Matter
From "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Mr. Rogers met a 14-year-old boy whose cerebral palsy left him unable to walk or barely talk. Rogers asked the boy to pray for him. The boy was thunderstruck. He had been the object of prayers many times, but nobody had asked him to pray for another. [...]
Never Give Up: A Story Reframed
When audiences hear Motivational Speaker Eva Grayzel, a take-away message is 'never give up.'
What to say to a friend who is sick: Show Empathy
A friend is sick....what to say in a card, when you call, in person? How do you show empathy? “If you need anything, call me. And if you don’t call me, I promise I’ll call you. And I’ll keep calling,” – bestguess, N.Y. “Don’t feel like talking? Me either. Let’s sit here and not [...]
What does HOPE mean? Not necessarily ‘a CURE.’
Hope means different things to cancer survivors.
What To Say: To A Cancer Survivor
So many people have said to me, “You look fantastic!” Why focus on how I look? You probably have little idea about my quality of life compromises that you cannot see on the outside. For me, I had bilateral vocal chord polyps and nodules, basal cell carcinoma in my radiated field, ringing in my ears, [...]