This article was written for The International Oncology Network - Published by Onco'Zine “Life without a mother – how would that be? A year in which we would all define what love really meant, how tight our family really was, and soon after… how easily everything could fall apart. It was going to be the year … Continue reading “Three Pillars of Psycho-social Support for Children of a Parent with Cancer”
“13 Diamonds – Life Before Death from a Child’s Perspective” An Uncensored Narrative about Losing a Parent to Brain Cancer PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA – Thirteen years after losing her mother to brain cancer, author Manon Rinsma finally found strength to share her uncensored voice in a memoir. Under the slogan: “If you do feel lonely … Continue reading Press Release: “Millennial Shares Truth About Cancer in Painfully Honest Memoir”
What makes you happy? What makes you feel alive? Less lonely? Understood? Sometimes we only need to hear a few little words from others to fix our mindsets. Words that may not seem to be a big deal, but from time to time are all we really need. What do you need to hear? Think … Continue reading “What Do You Want To Hear?”
When you expose your story to the world, you wonder what aspects to share and what to keep to yourself. I am usually an open book, but that has not always been that way. For years I have been trying to find my voice and I made executive decisions on what was wise to say … Continue reading “Don’t Walk Your Path Alone”
Living in California it is not difficult to leave your footprint in the sand. Fairly often I enjoy the long, beautiful Californian beaches. I walk around for hours sometimes watching my footsteps being washed away by the Pacific Ocean.. It's peaceful, but it brings back memories too. There was a poem my mother loved, a … Continue reading “Footprints In The Sand”
More and more I wake up after a dream without realizing the dream really happened. I like to think we reflect on our lives in our dreams. Last week I dreamt about Hong Kong. I was sitting along the river waiting for the famous light show. The Hong Kong skyline is an impressive one, especially … Continue reading “Traveling For Too Long Turns Into A Dream”
We all have our untold stories. Stories we can learn from, stories others can learn from. Sometimes all we need is to not feel alone. We can find strength in sharing, it can be therapeutic, but by sharing our tales we can also truly try to help those who need the confirmation they are not … Continue reading 5 Steps – “To Start Sharing Your Story”
The last week and months before that, many people have been discussing that what they called the fight of all fights – where two giants took it up against each other in this interspecies battle. A battle many people wanted to bet on, how about our own battles though? Who is behind us while we … Continue reading “The Fight Of All Fights”
There are many approaches in life, we can take everything we do in a glass-half-empty-kind-of-way or we can try to see the positive in things. Of course there are times to be serious, but there are never enough genuine smiles – we can use a few extra. There is an upside to many moments in … Continue reading “Life is for Living – Have Some Fun”
On the day of a solar eclipse I figured it is a good moment to realize that life goes on with or without us. Each year we are given 365.25 days to make our way around the sun. 365 full days and every fourth year one extra day to live life to the fullest: dream, … Continue reading “Solar Eclipse – Life Moves On”
