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The Curative Powers Of A Post-Cancer Ménage

The Curative Powers Of A Post-Cancer Ménage

by Ivy Hughes | Jan 8, 2020 | Dating after cancer, Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Relationships and sex, Sex after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship

Reclaiming your sexual self after cancer is as bad as it sounds. Actually, it’s worse. It’s like falling off a shining new Gary Fisher and then being given a unicycle with a flat tire and a rusty chain. It takes effort where effort wasn’t previously required and it...
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...
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.
Dating After Cancer Is As Confusing As Everything Else “After Cancer”

Dating After Cancer Is As Confusing As Everything Else “After Cancer”

by Ivy Hughes | Aug 20, 2019 | Dating after cancer, Life after breast cancer, Relationships after cancer, Survivorship

(Thanks to First Descents for publishing my dating blog on their site. To read the entire thing, click here.) Dating after cancer is the same as everything after cancer. It’s fun, confusing, depressing, memorable, inspiring and torturous among many other emotions that...
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