by Ivy Hughes | Jul 15, 2019 | Dating after cancer, Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Relationships after cancer
I am and have been many things, a liar has never been one of them. Unfortunately, the affect that I seem to have on people these days makes me want to learn how to lie. When I spend time with a new person, the beast of a story that I’m working through shotguns any...
by Ivy Hughes | Jun 22, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Mindfulness, Relationships after cancer, Survivorship, Women empowerment
If I could put the love that I feel for the women in my life into a capsule and get any guy to swallow it, I would silver platter myself the perfect partner. With the exception of romantic love, the women in my life tick every love box any psychologist anywhere could...
by Ivy Hughes | Jun 19, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Relationships after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
I discredit pretty much every piece of advice that my parents give me. I discredit dad because his way of getting to Texas from Colorado is via Zanzibar. I discredit mom because she has feelings, many of them. After proving quite heartedly that my decision making...
by Ivy Hughes | May 12, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Raising kids, Relationships after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship, Women
I view my mother as this superpower whose energy and love sort of hold my life together. No matter where I’ve traveled or lived or what kinds of crazy assed schemes I’ve come up with, my mother’s love has been my container. She contains so that I can live, so that I...
by Ivy Hughes | May 8, 2019 | Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Mindfulness, Relationships after cancer, Sex after cancer, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
Reclaiming your sexual self after cancer sucks. It’s like falling off of a shiny 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 forces the issue of how to be in a...
by Ivy Hughes | Apr 24, 2019 | Cancer ruins relationships, Life after breast cancer, Life after cancer, Relationships after cancer, Relationships and sex, Surviving cancer, Survivorship
It took hundreds of people to save my life. Doctors, nurses, scientists, coworkers, close family, distant family, close friends, acquaintances, strangers, authors, lovers. Of those hundreds of people, about a dozen put their lives on hold to be at my side whenever I...
