Healing Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:14:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Facing Facts: Fear & Reality https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/ https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:14:16 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5660 July 5th, 2022 I was changing the kitty litter and saw a bug scurry out from under the box. The pinchers were huge and it startled me. I’m not a bug a phobe. I routinely catch bees and wasps using a piece of a paper and an oversized cup and then release them outside. But […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/facing-facts-fear-reality/feed/ 0 REGN4018 Clinical Trial (Weeks 5 & 6): Plot Twist https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-weeks-5-6-plot-twist/ https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-weeks-5-6-plot-twist/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:25:48 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5507 I have felt physically better in the last week and a half than I have since starting the trial. That is a huge relief and I’m enjoying having some energy, stamina, and appetite. When I got the REGN4018 at a 150 mg. dose, as an outpatient, for the first time in week five I was […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/regn4018-clinical-trial-weeks-5-6-plot-twist/feed/ 6 My Free-Write Life, Medical Update, & Blizzard Photos (all over the place, like me) https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/ https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:37:13 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5387 I had the chance to do three free-writing sessions in the last week. Free-writing offers me an opportunity to be prompted by some brand new idea. It provokes writing I don’t always expect and helps me consider and reflect on the present (and the past) in new ways. I love doing it in community as […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/my-free-write-life-medical-update-blizzard-photos-all-over-the-place-like-me/feed/ 6 Clinical Trial Possibility / Medical Update & Free-Writing https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/ https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:12:55 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5381 A week ago today I was supposed to start my third round of treatment for my second #ovariancancer recurrence. It was going to be a chemo infusion or pill and Avastin. But, a few days before my appointment I got a call from my oncologist, Dr. P, who told me there is an opening in […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/clinical-trial-possibility-medical-update-free-writing/feed/ 6 Cancer Connections Podcast: Cancer, ACEs & Trauma with Cissy White https://healwritenow.com/cancer-connections-podcast-cancer-aces-trauma-with-cissy-white/ https://healwritenow.com/cancer-connections-podcast-cancer-aces-trauma-with-cissy-white/#respond Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:51:08 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=5334 In our first three episodes, we heard from expert physicians about the connection between stress and disease, people who have defied the odds in exceptional ways, and how addressing death thoughtfully may bring unexpected joy. But how do these ideas about the connection between stress and disease square with someone who is actually living with […]

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