Author: Kelly

Being in my early 20s, I had my whole life ahead of me (or so I thought).  I was a college graduate and the world was my oyster. I was looking forward to either starting a career, going back to graduate school, or finding love.  In all reality, I was still trying to figure out who I was and what I wanted my future to be.  Suddenly…

February 14 (Valentine’s Day) is a day of romance and love amongst couples and a day to express love to a dear friend or family member.  A day filled with roses, balloons, stuffed animals, cards, chocolates, and gifts that illustrate the grand love felt for another person.  Actually, growing up, I recall going to the store every year to pick out cards…

A new day was upon me where I was not only alive, but it was a time of victory over my long cancer battle.  I had completed all my cancer treatments; therefore, it was a time of celebration not only for this great accomplishment but also for all the possibilities that were unfolding before me.  The possibility of life beyond cancer was a thrilling idea because it meant it…

Sometimes unforeseen things will happen to us that don’t make any sense.  How do we overcome our hardest obstacles in life?  Shall we succumb to our current trials and tribulations that are causing us so much suffering, pain and despair.  Life’s difficulties may feel so overwhelming that the easiest response is to give up and surrender.  Nobody would blame you…

Reflection of one’s life can happen for a variety of reasons.  For me personally, after I was diagnosed with cancer, I sat down and evaluated my life and my current state of mind.  I was miserable due to having the fear of dying constantly in the pit of my stomach.  Did I want to continue in this negative mental state throughout my cancer battle or did I want to change…

Most of us were ready to start a new year and put 2020 behind us and never look back.  If you are like me, I wrote down a few new year resolutions such as starting to get back on track with my nutrition and exercise.  The year 2020 turned our lives upside down and changed our daily lives drastically.  As…

Life can be joyous, chaotic, sad, or marvelous and we do not know what tomorrow will bring into our lives.  If we stop to think about it, life is a journey in which we hold the key on how we will experience it.  For some of us, like myself who is a cancer survivor, we find ourselves at a crossroads where…

You may be going through a difficult season in your life, perhaps you feel you have made mistakes or you let others dictate your self-worth.  We tend to consume ourselves with our circumstances. This is reflected outwardly to others in our daily interactions despite our best efforts to contain our emotions.  Personally, I have learned that we grow through these difficult times in our lives and become stronger…

During certain periods in our lives, we experience pain, loss, devastation, and loneliness.  These dark periods manifest in increasing levels of mental anguish that becomes intolerable and makes us want to escape.  You feel as if nobody understands your pain or can even notice that you are falling apart at the seams.  You feel you are all alone, trying to scream at the top of your…

This aggressive fast-growing cancer presented itself with cold-like symptoms, but this was only the beginning of what was to come.  As the tumor grew bigger, it began to affect my breathing which required me to be placed on oxygen.  Hereafter, it felt like the tumor was hammering me internally.  It was as if I had become a boxer and was being repeatedly punched in the same area over and over…