March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month – Get Screened!
March 1, the first day of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, seems like the perfect day to write this inaugural post of areyoushitting.me. As a colorectal cancer survivor/thriver, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is personal and loaded with lots of intention. Much like when someone asks me how I’m doing, and I respond with, “Happy to be […]
Why You Need To Pre-Order My Book And/Or Share With Others To Do The Same
Writing a book is hard. Writing a non-fiction book is a different kind of hard. Unlike fiction, you have to do a nonfiction book proposal first. The proposal is basically an outline of your book with sample chapters and a marketing plan. My book proposal for Are You Shitting Me?! How to Survive, Thrive and […]
Light Conquers Darkness
I was listening to the Today Show, while getting ready to see my parents Christmas Day. Cardinal Timothy Dolan was giving his annual Christmas message, and for 2020, it was this: Light Conquers Darkness. I believe light conquers darkness in both the physical and spiritual sense. Over the past four years, I dealt with job […]
A Tail of Surviving, Thriving and Transforming Through Illness
My book is now up for pre-order, and it would mean so much to me if you would pre-order a copy or copies and support me in sharing my story with the hopes of helping others. Be one of the first 200 to pre-order, and you will receive a signed copy. Check out my page […]
Rise & Thrive and Get Screened
Rise & Thrive. The message on this $10 throw pillow from Target has given me a new mantra to add to my repertoire (I’m alive. It’s not as hard as cancer. It’s not as painful as radiation). While I will likely never be a morning person, replacing my internal early a.m. grumbling with Rise & Thrive […]
Make and Break 10 – Bubbles!
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble – Shakespeare’s Macbeth There’s little toil and no trouble to make an essential oils bubble bath with just a few ingredients that haven’t been affected by corona virus. And with all the stress from said virus and day-to-day life, this 10th installment of Oils & […]
More Than a Feeling
I’ve been thinking for a while now that this current pandemic feels like two years ago when I was fighting cancer. I wondered if I was the only cancer survivor/thriver who felt like this, until I spied an article in Health on how the pandemic is triggering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in cancer survivors and […]
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Balcony Scene Two weeks ago, I finished my non-fiction book proposal, something I started after my last blog months ago and would never have finished without the help of my friend, […]
Grateful To Be Here 2
One year ago today, I underwent a 5 1/2-hour, life-saving, life-changing surgery to remove a Stage 3 colorectal cancer tumor. Life-saving: The surgeon was quick to tell me that he got it all, and I was cured with less than a 7 percent chance of recurrence. The oncologist told me he would considered me cured […]
No Beauty School Drop Out 2 – Skin Care
I had the pleasure of attending Young Living Essential Oils Beauty School toward the end of January and initially blogged about the experience in general, with the promise that I would follow up with posts on skin care regimen and makeup. This post focuses on the Young Living Skin Care Regimen, though it can be […]