Fabienne S. Morgana

Gratitude Practice as a strategy I feel like gratitude practice is a deceptively simple strategy that can create significant results if practiced daily. Given that I forget about it sometimes when I'm feeling stressed, or having a depressive episode, I can understand why it gets overlooked. Somehow, we have linked gratitude with happiness, and they are two very separate things. I feel like practicing gratitude makes me happier, but I don't have to be happy to practice gratitude. It ... continue reading...

Gratitude Practice: final week of final chemo cycle. My final chemo week, third week after my final chemo. So much gratitude that I didn't have another cycle of this to face. Week 3, Day One (Day 78 of 85) Thursday 1. And... we are down to single digits in terms of the countdown! Fuck yeah! As I have said before, I will finish up the daily gratitude on the day that my next chemo would be due if I was having another cycle. I will continue with the cancer ... continue reading...

Gratitude Practice: second week of fourth and final chemo cycle. It's powerful for me revisiting this timeframe - I'm very grateful that it is in my rearview mirror. I'm still integrating the experience, and blogging is certainly helping that. It feels like there was a Before Cancer, and I'm lucky enough to be looking at an After Cancer. I honestly don't feel like the same person in many ways. It is a work in progress! So much gratitude to have the option of continuing to work it out. And ... continue reading...

Gratitude Practice: first week of forth and final chemo cycle. So much gratitude that my bloods were fine and I could go ahead with my final chemo. I understood some of the worst was possibly yet to come, but you know that old quote: "if you're going through hell, keep going!" Chemo Round Four of Four, Week One, Day One (Day 64 of 85). “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes ... continue reading...

Gratitude Practice: third week of third chemo cycle (leading up to the final chemo). This was it! The week prior to the final chemo! I was so grateful to finally be staring at the final infusion. This gratitude practice had become one of anchors each day. There was still had another month of the worst of it to get through, but the end really was in sight. I had told my oncologist that I was factoring in three weeks post-chemo before I considered myself done and he was relieved. He ... continue reading...