burning skin.
How could you fight in these circumstances? It can feel like trudging through mud just to stay alive — nothing like the power needed for a fight. You’re just trying to cope.
It’s hard to marry the idea of a fight with what you may be experiencing. The word “fight” can have an enormous mental toll on you. But this is where you can choose to stop calling breast cancer a fight.
My Cancer Journey
You can call it your journey. Every time you say journey instead of fight, this can make a difference in your treatment, regardless of whether the reality is true or not.
Physicians advise that maintaining a positive mindset can significantly aid in the healing process of your body, as your body, like a sponge, absorbs your thoughts.
That shift in mindset can have you walking into every appointment telling yourself that the news would be good. Each time, any good news sounded even better.
And you soon realize that the unsolicited advice others gave you about your fight isn’t hitting you as hard.
Chose Your Own Words
You never want to be rude and tell others to stop saying it to you, but you also don’t know how to ask them to stop calling your journey a fight. No matter how many people hold your hand during treatment or sit at your bedside while you wake from anesthesia, ready to help in the next stage of your so-called fight, you might feel alone in your journey.
A simple phrase can derail your mindset for longer than you may admit. Words are powerful. They weave stories of trials and triumph, take you on adventures in books, and motivate you when you feel down.
But words can also harm — even if you don’t always realize it. If you want to call it your fight, that’s okay. But it’s also okay to speak into existence your own words and make them far more powerful than anything that may harm you.
Sometimes, no words are needed at all. And you should never feel guilty telling your loved ones just that. Simply being there to love and support is enough.