Psyching Out Cancer

Stories and Psychology Tips from a Clinical Psychologist with Multiple Myeloma.

(Blood and Bone Cancer)

Not boring promise logan weaver lgnwvr LHDQawgNS I unsplash scaled - Did you miss me?
by Janine

The leaves I’m leaning over right now are the same colour as the vomit I’ve donated into the drain beside

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Goldfish
by Janine

I am going to add an interpretation to this event in my mind.  A helpful, healthy interpretation.  We can do that, we humans.  Our minds do it all the time.  We often add a narrative, meaning or attribution to an event that is negative, unhelpful and unhealthy.  When we do, pain and suffering soon follow.  Alternatively, we can also add helpful, wonderful, healthy, inspiring, enjoyable narratives to events, circumstances, thoughts, feelings and sensations.  These can help us feel and create pleasure, celebration and hope. 

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nick abrams tortoise turtle unsplash scaled - 56 days slow and bald
by Janine

56 days since my stem cell transplant (SCT). I’ve now been home for the same amount of time that I

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Escape on way home
by Janine

Escape! I’m out of hospital.  I burst into tears on leaving. Overwhelmed with a sense of freedom and loss. Loss

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Seated animal statue wearing anti coronavirus mask
by Janine

You are a bit of bitch really aren’t you?  Very clever.  Coronavirus, Covid19 or whatever you are calling yourself, you’ve

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women in woods
by Janine

I listened to an interview with best-selling author Marion Keyes today and she talked about writing emotional landscapes.  This is

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Sea of Galilee 2 Israel - I’ve been dying to go so as I’m dying, I’m going.
by Janine

I’mmmmm back!  When I left you last, Mum was in recovery from breast cancer and Dad’s melanoma was kicking him

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rave joel amissa 1184564 unsplash - Hedgehogs at a rave
by Janine

Peripheral neuropathy. A fancy pants way of saying pins and needles. Except it is a bit more than that and

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Silence
by Janine

Hello you. Is anybody out there? Sorry I have been so silent for so long; it’s been a heck of

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tears plane morre christophe 121633 unsplash - Tears on a plane
by Janine

Saying goodbye to anyone you love is tough. Saying goodbye to my parents is very very tough. It hits me

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