The Sunday Self-Care Chronicles - Newsletter Archives
Welcome to the Sunday Self-Care Chronicles — my weekly love note to breast cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and anyone learning to care for their body (and heart) after diagnosis.
Each Sunday, I share a mix of personal reflections, practical tools, and honest education rooted in both professional experience and lived survivorship. These aren’t fluffy wellness tips — they’re real-world, body-focused strategies to help you feel more informed, more supported, and more like yourself again.
You can browse by category, revisit your favorites, or start wherever your nervous system says “yes.”
Let’s make this less scary together — one Sunday at a time.
Are we a fit? Let’s find out.
Most "about" pages are about the person who made them. This one flips that around - it's mostly about you. I published a page called "Are We a Fit?", and describing the women I wrote it for meant describing me, too. Read it and see if you recognize yourself. If you do - or if you don't - both are good answers.
Letting Go of the Letters (and the Stemware)
I held a national board certification for fourteen years and let it expire the same weekend I finally emptied the garage. Here's what a garage sale, my great-grandma's stemware, and a very revealing survey taught me about the difference between keeping something and it actually serving you.
So I gots the ADHD.
So I gots the ADHD - Not severe, but real. This week: a new diagnosis, the strange relief of finally having a name for the noise, and what it taught me about survivorship, brain fog, and designing life for the body you actually have.
Even I get the Sunday Scaries
I love my work. I love my clients. And I still get the Sunday Scaries. This week: what my cozy bed was actually trying to tell me, the moment shame turned into a choice, and the simple Thich Nhat Hanh breathing meditation I've leaned on for years.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: choose your own adventure.
A “best of” on Breast Cancer Awareness Month—reflections on pink ribbons, the silent majority who choose privacy, and why metastatic breast cancer must be part of the story.
What's your "worth it"?
What's your "worth it"? A reflection on the invisible math behind every survivorship decision - from reconstruction revisions to compression sleeves to a glass of champagne - and why deciding on purpose is what active healing actually is. Because passive recovery happens by default, but active healing happens by decision.
Same hands. Same car. Completely different drive.
A solstice reflection on how the same ordinary moment can mean something completely different depending on where you are in your healing.
I'm not a warrior — and that's okay.
I twisted my foot on a walk through the Tuscan hills where they filmed Gladiator — which turned out to be a pretty perfect entry point for something I've wanted to say for a while about battle language, breast cancer, and the words we're handed that don't always fit.
Doing nothing is harder than it should be.
What happens when cancer makes rest feel like something you have to earn? This week I'm writing from my pajamas, my fourth reheated coffee, and a Saturday I'm finally letting myself not justify.
To the whole, complicated, beautiful you — Happy International Women's Day
A story about a networking event, four words that flew out of Amy's mouth, and what International Women's Day really means when you've lived in a woman's body that's been through something.
Let’s Talk About Cancerversaries (and Why They’re Not One-Size-Fits-All)
What we remember, what we forget, and why cancer dates often land differently—plus permission to mark them (or not) in your own way.
Spoiler: Your Body Doesn’t Care About Daylight Savings
Daylight Saving may snap your clocks into place, but your body? It does not care. This cozy, honest edition of the Sunday Self-Care Chronicles dives into seasonality, winter fatigue, and practical ways to support your post-cancer body when everything feels darker, colder, and slower.
Self-Care Tools That Make Life in Survivorship Easier
The “Best Of” self-care series finale brings it all home with hands-on tools and simple refresh ideas for body-based self-care. Perfect timing for a year-end reset—or anytime you need a little extra comfort and clarity.
Your Survivorship, Your Playbook
Part two of the “Best Of” series explores how your self-care needs shift through every stage of recovery—from diagnosis to long-term survivorship. Learn how to meet yourself where you are and tailor your care to fit your season.
Start Here: Your You-Shaped Self-Care
Part one of a “Best Of” series lays the foundation for real self-care after breast cancer—redefining what “normal” means now and how to design it for yourself. Includes two free tools to help you reconnect with your body and your needs.
When communication IS self-care.
A reflection on communication, individuality, and community—because healing grows stronger when we create space for honesty, safety, and trust.
The world is loud. Here’s your quiet.
When the world feels loud and your heart feels heavy, come back to what steadies you. This “Best Of: When Times Are Hard” collection gathers four reflections—on healing, rest, change, and calm—that remind us our bodies, like the seasons, know what to do.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: choose your own adventure
A “best of” on Breast Cancer Awareness Month—reflections on pink ribbons, the silent majority who choose privacy, and why metastatic breast cancer must be part of the story.
READER POLL: October is complicated. Let’s check in.
A quick check-in before October begins—two polls to share how you’re feeling about BCAM and what kind of support you’d like in your inbox this month.
My favorite feel-good emails (with zero cancer talk)
Two of my favorite email lists that have nothing to do with cancer—and everything to do with joy, ease, and a little inbox magic.