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Susan Troccolo’s life beyond cancer: when the mind is not your friend

March 21, 2013 By Susan Troccolo

In the past year, I’ve lost two women in my family from cancer. I’ve felt the searing loss and pain that these deaths have brought, in part because I am in remission from cancer myself. Twice. Seventeen years apart. Because of that I know a lot about how my mind works with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Beyond Cancer, Change, Grief and Loss, Life Tagged With: Anxiety, cancer, Change, depression, grief, Integrative Grief Therapy, Jenny Griffin, Lyn Prashant, mind, Ondrea Levine

Winter Solstice 2012: Jenny’s garden

December 6, 2012 By Susan Troccolo

On one of the blogs I follow (http://gardenseyeview.com/2012/12/01/seasonal-celebrations-winter-solistice-2012/) the author challenged her readers to examine the meaning that the solstice had for them. I haven’t contributed to her site before, but the question struck a chord this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grief and Loss, Letters to Jenny, Life, Love, People, Seasons in a Portland Garden Tagged With: garden, Jenny Griffin, Letters to Jenny, ovarian cancer, ritual, seed catalogs, solstice celebration, winter solstice

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