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  • Multiple Dates
    Thu, Jan 23
    Virtual
    Jan 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Jan 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    This is your weekly breast cancer support group! It's a welcoming and inviting virtual space where you can come to meet others, ask questions, or just listen in. Our sessions are always confidential and a friendly space offering support as well a a bit of humor.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Jan 27
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    The process of focused meditation with attention and intention can provide answers to various questions we may have especially around limiting beliefs. This is an opportunity to anchor the chakra teachings and transform our consciousness around.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Jan 27
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online Event
    What does well-being mean to you? Join us for a transformative journey through 2025 as we deeply reflect on You Are The Medicine by Asha Frost, where we’ll explore 13 moons of Indigenous wisdom, ancestral connection, and animal spirit guidance.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Jan 27
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Join us for the REIKI Circle of Care, a transformative virtual session where energy knows no boundaries. Experience the power of distance Reiki as it flows through your Chakras, bringing balance and universal energy to your body, mind, and spirit.
  • Multiple Dates
    Tue, Jan 28
    Virtual
    Jan 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Jan 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    ¡Únete con nosotros para nuestro exclusivo Evento Martes - después del diagnóstico en español!
  • Multiple Dates
    Thu, Jan 30
    webinar
    Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
    webinar
    Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
    webinar
    Triage Cancer Conferences cover key tips to help navigate legal and practical issues, reduce the financial burden of a cancer diagnosis, and lower stress.
  • Multiple Dates
    Sun, Feb 02
    Online
    Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online
    Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online
    Each month, the Breast Cancer Book Club chooses a book that has nothing to do with breast cancer.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Feb 03
    Online Event
    Feb 03, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    Feb 03, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    Join us for a transformative journey of self-discovery and inner peace with Gloria Shoon’s Weekly Meditation Reflection Program. Each week, we’ll dive into a focused meditation practice designed to foster mindfulness, clarity, and personal growth.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Feb 03
    Online Event
    Feb 03, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Feb 03, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Unlock the transformative potential of creative expression with our immersive art exploration sessions. Delve into the healing energy of artistic endeavors as you discover the profound impact of mindfulness on emotional equilibrium.
  • Multiple Dates
    Mon, Feb 03
    Virtual
    Feb 03, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Feb 03, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Únete a nuestro grupo de apoyo emocional dirigido por una experimentada psicóloga para recibir el apoyo necesario mientras enfrentas el desafío del cáncer. El diagnóstico de cáncer puede traer consigo una carga emocional abrumadora, y estamos aquí para ayudarte a transitar este camino.

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  • Thursday Nights Thrivers Meetup
    Thursday Nights Thrivers Meetup
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    Thu, Jan 23
    Jan 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Jan 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    This is your weekly breast cancer support group! It's a welcoming and inviting virtual space where you can come to meet others, ask questions, or just listen in. Our sessions are always confidential and a friendly space offering support as well a a bit of humor.
  • Meditation Affirmations: Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
    Meditation Affirmations: Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
    Multiple Dates
    Mon, Jan 27
    Jan 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
    Online Event
    The process of focused meditation with attention and intention can provide answers to various questions we may have especially around limiting beliefs. This is an opportunity to anchor the chakra teachings and transform our consciousness around.
  • Well-Being Club
    Well-Being Club
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    Mon, Jan 27
    Jan 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online Event
    What does well-being mean to you? Join us for a transformative journey through 2025 as we deeply reflect on You Are The Medicine by Asha Frost, where we’ll explore 13 moons of Indigenous wisdom, ancestral connection, and animal spirit guidance.
  • Reiki Circle of Care
    Reiki Circle of Care
    Multiple Dates
    Mon, Jan 27
    Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM EST
    Online Event
    Join us for the REIKI Circle of Care, a transformative virtual session where energy knows no boundaries. Experience the power of distance Reiki as it flows through your Chakras, bringing balance and universal energy to your body, mind, and spirit.
  • Grupo de Apoyo: Después de un Diagnóstico
    Grupo de Apoyo: Después de un Diagnóstico
    Multiple Dates
    Tue, Jan 28
    Jan 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    Jan 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
    Virtual
    ¡Únete con nosotros para nuestro exclusivo Evento Martes - después del diagnóstico en español!
  • Triage  Cancer:  Medicare: What's New in 2025?
    Triage  Cancer:  Medicare: What's New in 2025?
    Multiple Dates
    Thu, Jan 30
    Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
    webinar
    Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
    webinar
    Triage Cancer Conferences cover key tips to help navigate legal and practical issues, reduce the financial burden of a cancer diagnosis, and lower stress.
  • Breast Cancer Book Club
    Breast Cancer Book Club
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Feb 02
    Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online
    Feb 02, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    Online
    Each month, the Breast Cancer Book Club chooses a book that has nothing to do with breast cancer.

How Do I Find ME Again?

Writer's picture: Surviving Breast CancerSurviving Breast Cancer

Updated: Mar 7, 2024


Dear Kristen After All That I Have Been Through, How do I find ME again?

It’s completely normal to feel disoriented and detached from our old lives and original selves after anything as life-altering as a breast cancer diagnosis. It’s like we’ve been picked up in a personal tidal wave, tossed and tumbled, and washed up on a new shore, dripping and wondering where the heck we are.


When this happened to me–after the initial diagnosis and urgent treatment, when I could see I was going to live a while longer–I turned to my most tried-and-true coaching tools to help ground me and get me back in touch with myself.


One thing I like about the coaching tool I am going to share with you today is that it’s uncomplicated. Another is that it’s steeped in research into what is most important in life; in positive psychology, these are called The Pillars of Wellbeing. They are universal; as relevant to me in Boulder County, Colorado, as they were to South African township students I taught it to years ago.


What I recommend is that you spend a few minutes thinking about what matters most to you in each category outlined below. This will connect you deeply to what matters to you now and what has always mattered to you–threads that will help weave together the “yous” from all stages of your life.


The acronym for this tool is SIMPLE:


S: SUCCESS

Success gets to mean whatever you want it to: professional, financial, personal, social–any goals that will make you feel fulfilled. What do you want to accomplish? What dreams have you had since you were young? Since you got older? What ideas have been bubbling up inside that you’d love to bring into being?


I: INTERESTS

What do you love to do? What makes you lose track of time? How would you spend a paid holiday? What section of the bookstore do you gravitate toward? What did you love as a child? What project supplies are gathering dust somewhere in your home?


M: MEANING

How do you want to leave your mark on the world? In what ways are you involved with something larger than yourself, like a community or a movement? If you have children, what lessons do you most want to teach them?


P: PEOPLE

This is probably the most important category of all, as the quality of our relationships directly determines the quality of our lives. Who do you love? Who would you invite on to your life raft and who might you lovingly invite to take a seat on another raft with other people? Who fills your bucket? If you drew concentric circles, who would be in the innermost one? The next one? The next?


L: LIVING

How do you nurture your body, mind, and soul? What are your goals or dreams for your precious self? What brings you a feeling of physical well-being, or what do you imagine for yourself in the future? What fuels your imagination, your curiosity? What do you love learning? What spiritual beliefs feel right and affirming to you?


E: EMOTIONS

How do you like to feel? We might all say “happy,” but what does that mean for you? Safe, calm, and content? Zestful, energized, and vibrant? Fierce? Brene Brown’s new book, Atlas of the Heart, is a wonderful resource for ideas and vocabulary around emotions, and we have an “emotional thesaurus” you can download right here to help you think.


That’s it! I’ve used this to plot big-picture goals (I call it my SIMPLE life plan) and from there, I can set daily and mid-term goals to help me stay connected to myself and do what’s most important to me.


I hope it helps you do the same.



For now,

Kristen <3



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Our standing appointment on Thursdays is for all stages. We also host specific breakout groups once a month for specific stages and subtypes such as Metastatic breast cancer, and Inflammatory Breast Cancer, etc. 

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