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Looking for Love in All of the Wrong Places

Looking for Love in All of the Wrong Places

by Ivy Hughes | Oct 15, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Mindfulness, Self love, Surviving narcissists, Survivorship

One of the saddest objects of affection is the unsent love letter. A few weeks ago, following two glasses of wine, I furiously wrote one of these and then hid it beneath my yoga teaching journals. Along with moaning about life and unfairness and all the other BS that...
How El Salvador’s Civil War Generation Is Saving Coastal Tourism

How El Salvador’s Civil War Generation Is Saving Coastal Tourism

by Ivy Hughes | Sep 30, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Surfing, Travel

(Author’s note: This was originally published in surfing magazine, The Inertia after three national pubs said they’d accept this piece EXCEPT for the fact that El Salvador’s on a U.S. travel ban. Think about governments deciding where you can move...
How Cancer Forced Me to Face a Lifelong Battle with Depression

How Cancer Forced Me to Face a Lifelong Battle with Depression

by Ivy Hughes | Sep 12, 2019 | Cancer grief, Depression after cancer, Depression and cancer, Suicide, Surviving cancer, Survivorship

I have struggled with crippling depression since I was, I don’t know, four? But it wasn’t until I was in the midst of cancer treatments that I came to terms with the fact that my life might just be better if I surrender to Big Pharma and take some goddamn...
Hunting for Shoes with the Two Cutest, Most Worthless Anything Finders

Hunting for Shoes with the Two Cutest, Most Worthless Anything Finders

by Ivy Hughes | Sep 12, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Raising kids, Raising kids after cancer, Raising twins

“Where is your shoe?” “Yeah.” “Seriously. Where is your shoe? There’s one over there and there’s one over there. Both lefties, one a sandal, one a tennis shoe. Where are the other ones?” “Yeah!” Thus began the twenty minute search to find two matching pairs of shoes...
Am I a Scary Mommy for Almost Giving Up My Kids?

Am I a Scary Mommy for Almost Giving Up My Kids?

by Ivy Hughes | Aug 30, 2019 | Cancer grief, Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Raising kids, Raising kids after cancer, Raising twins, Surviving cancer

Thanks to Scary Mommy for posting this one.
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