July 14, 2010
Moving through Darkness
The Places We Go
Often it takes something major to wake us up, to shake us loose from our ego’s grip as it struggles to maintain an illusion of control.
In life, most of us want things to go to the places we have envisioned ourselves going. We have plans and visions, some [...]

Eight months after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released updated breast cancer screening guidelines, some physicians and lawmakers continue to call for the guidelines’ withdrawal, Long Island Newsday reports.
The guidelines recommend that women with a normal risk for breast cancer begin breast cancer screening and mammograms at age 50, rather than age 40. USPSTF [...]

July 12, 2010
Time for Wellness
A Self-Healing Day
Set aside a day for focus on yourself. Start the day by setting the intention that you are dedicating this time to healing yourself.
Human beings carry within themselves the seed of healing. Our choices affect us more than we realize, and it is because of this that we tend [...]

July 6, 2010
Shifting with the Tide
Energetic Motion
Since our lives are constantly in motion energetically, change is a constant element of our existence.
Since our lives are constantly in motion energetically, change is a constant element of our existence. As dynamic as that energy is, it is not random or haphazard in nature—the shifts in energy [...]

By Brian Entin – bio | email
In this heat, you can break a sweat walking around the block.
But imagine walking in the hot sun from Fort Lauderdale all the way to New York City.
That’s what three men are doing – all to raise money for breast cancer.
They looked inconspicuous walking down Martin Luther King Boulevard [...]

About half of breast cancer patients do not take their medication for the recommended period of time, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 6/29).
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente in Northern California examined the pharmacy records of 8,769 women with [...]

July 1, 2010
The Weight of the Past
Regret
Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life now.
Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in [...]

Life at the Bottom of the Toy Box
If you have looked around lately you have noticed that Toy Story 3 mania is everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! From the cereal aisle to the toy section Toy Story is everywhere.  You can’t miss the signs if you wanted to. I wish the fight against breast cancer [...]

June 25, 2010
Stronger Than You Know
Getting Ourselves Worked Up
We are almost always stronger and more capable than we believe ourselves to be.
Our capacity to cope successfully with life’s challenges far outstrips our capacity to feel nervousness. Yet in the weeks, days, and hours leading up to an event that we believe will test our [...]

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has received a $5.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct and lead a first-of-its-kind, four-year clinical trial to show the effects of weight loss and increased physical activity on quality of life and on co-existing medical conditions in overweight breast cancer survivors. This [...]