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09/02/2026

Make Ann’s favorite creamy salad dressing with hummus, balsamic vinegar, orange juice, ginger, mustard, and turmeric in just minutes.

09/02/2026

You get a scan schedule. General advice to eat well and stay active. And an assumption that time, and your body, will sort the rest out on its own.

When I finished treatment, I was handed the Canada Food Guide and told to avoid soy. I remember sitting in the parking lot afterward, staring at that pamphlet, and understanding something clearly for the first time.

Nobody was coming to manage this for me.

Not because they did not care. Because the system was never built to carry a woman through this phase. It is built to get her through treatment. What happens after is left to her.

The women who rebuild properly are not the ones with more willpower or more research skills. They are the ones who recognized that gap early and stepped into it, because the alternative was waiting indefinitely for a plan that was never coming.

You are already the one tracking every symptom, every question your doctor waves off as normal, every piece of your own picture. That is not a burden you asked for.

But it is the position you are in. And the only choice left is whether you meet it with structure, or without it.

Send this to a woman who finished treatment and still doesn’t feel like herself.

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08/31/2026

Four things you were told after treatment that are quietly keeping you stuck.

None of them are lies. They’re just incomplete. And incomplete information is what’s kept you managing symptoms instead of addressing what’s underneath them.

Send this to a woman who finished treatment and still doesn’t feel like herself.

08/31/2026

Telling a woman that time, rest, eating “well” and staying active will restore her body after cancer treatment is simply a disservice.

Your body has been through something extremely intense. Specific systems were impacted, specific nutrients were likely depleted, and specific measures therefore need to be taken.

Vague post-treatment advice is ‘nice to know’ at best, but it won’t fully restore a body that has been through medical cancer treatment.

08/29/2026

You have said “maybe next time” more times than you can count.

The trip you didn’t book. The invitation you left on read for three days before you found a reason to decline. The thing you wanted to say yes to, except you checked in with your body first. Scanned for a symptom. Waited to feel more certain before you let yourself do something outside of your current comfort zone.

You are telling yourself you will do it once the fear dissipates. Once you feel fully recovered. Once you trust your body again.

Here is the honest picture. The fear you feel may not ever fully leave. Not at six months. Not at two years. Not even at nineteen. It becomes something you carry differently, but it does not simply disappear over time.

The women who are actually rebuilding after cancer are not the ones who stopped being scared first. They are doing it scared. All of it — the trip, the social gathering, the new fitness class. Choosing to step out of what has felt safe and comfortable, and taking decisive action to do the hard thing.

Stop waiting for the fear to leave before you let yourself live.

Save this for the next time you catch yourself saying maybe next time.

08/28/2026

SOAR Past Your Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Nutrition Guide for Cancer Care is available now.

Diet is linked to as many as 30% of cancers. Malnutrition contributes to 1 in 5 cancer-related deaths. Most patients are told to eat whatever they ‘feel like’. That advice is reasonable on more challenging treatment days, but patients also deserve to be aware of the evidence around nutrition and cancer. Specifically, that it points somewhere more specific.

Inside the guide:

☑️ How nutrition affects cancer development and treatment outcomes, explained by mechanism

☑️ A daily guide to cancer-fighting foods with a grocery list

☑️ A 7-Day Anti-Cancer Kickstart plan

☑️ Recipes built on whole food plant predominant ingredients: breakfast, lunch, dinner, smoothies, sauces

☑️ Food strategies for common treatment side effects, such as nausea, fatigue, constipation, and mouth sores

☑️ Prep and cooking methods that preserve anticancer compounds

“A much-needed addition to the literature on diet and cancer.” — Dr. Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist

I wrote this guide for patients in active treatment and in remission. My current focus is helping women rebuild after treatment, but the guide holds up at every stage of your healing journey. 🤍

Link in bio to get your copy.

08/27/2026

You have been waiting for time to do the repair work.

But time did not do this to you. Cancer treatment did. And chemotherapy and radiotherapy do not undo their side effects on a calendar.

Your gut microbiome was measurably disrupted. It does not recolonize on its own timeline. Your mitochondria, the structures inside every cell that produce energy, took a direct hit. They do not regenerate simply because six months have passed. Your hormonal pathways were altered. They do not recalibrate because a year went by. And your nervous system, which relies on gut-produced neurotransmitters like serotonin to regulate mood and anxiety, does not stabilise just because the calendar moved forward.

This is why you can be two years or even ten years out, and still not feel like yourself. Not because something is permanently wrong with you, but because time was never the mechanism. Time may heal many things, but was never going to do this work.

What repairs a depleted system are the right conditions, applied in the right order, targeting specific impacts of treatment.

You are not behind schedule. You were simply not given the information to carry you through your rebuild.

Save this for the day you catch yourself thinking “it’s been long enough, I should feel better by now.”

08/27/2026