This weekend, I took a boat ride from Glen Cove, New York, to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Sounds lovely, right? I was so fearful of going! Read on for the top six reasons you need to face your fears. It was a two-and-a-half-hour ride each way. Besides a car ferry, I was never on a boat ride that long. I was terrified of facing this fear. But I…
Do you get that “pit” feeling in your stomach when you are afraid? I do. There’s a new side effect joining my cancer journey and it’s scary. I have been walking around with that pit feeling due to a new fear. It is so uncomfortable, yet I know I have to get through it. This is not my first rodeo, and you would think…
Note: This is a guest post by my daughter Erin Rederscheid When Mom was first diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I became the distraught daughter. I will never forget those moments in my life. That night we sat down for dinner, and she told me she was having her first surgery but that she was okay! The morning we sat down in my dorm room lobby, and she told me she…
Are you guilty of procrastinating? Me, too. Is a life-changing trauma holding you back from outwitting life? It can, but only if you let it. Procrastinating after cancer can be a good thing. I have been struggling with the fear of reinventing myself, and I have only recently allowed myself to face this fear. Denial is so much easier. Fear has caused me to procrastinate writing my blog. Fear…