Selina 🤍

There’s no ‘back to normal’ after cancer. Just forward—with intention. Survival changed my priorities. The gym keeps me grounded. Everything else is noise. #thankscancer

Happy friday to the people who are just winging it

You can literally come back from anything. It’s all about your mindset.

No thoughts just this

i think one of the hardest parts of sharing something personal publicly is realizing people are often reacting to their own fears, assumptions, experiences, and projections more than they’re reacting to you. strange feeling watching people form entire opinions about your life from only a small fragment of it.

If you understood how difficult and how long it took for some people to recover their peace of mind, you would understand why they shut doors at the first sign of toxicity and why they are so selective about whom they allow into their lives.

The grief with chronic illness is weird because no one died. But your old life did. And people expect you to talk about that gently.

Your worth isn’t defined by what you’ve been through or how people see you because of it. It’s in how you keep going anyway. You can carry everything you’ve been through and still choose who you are. letting go isn’t forgetting. It’s choosing to carry it without letting it have the final say.

One of the worst parts of chronic illness is how quickly you’re forgotten. The texts slow down. The invites stop. You miss enough things and eventually, no one asks anymore. Life keeps moving. Just not with you in it.

people think grief is crying. but grief is waking up exhausted. it’s losing words mid sentence. it’s being dragged into memories you didn’t invite.. grief isn’t just sadness... it’s the body remembering what the heart refuses to release. grief brought everything back.

My therapist told me this, and it changed my life: "You're not healing to be able to handle trauma, pain, anxiety, depression. You're used to those. You're healing to be able to handle joy and to accept happiness back into your life."

THIS. ⬇️ @ogcancerpatient

@katievscancer Stage 4 here. At this point, I fully support the ‘if I had to experience medical trauma today, I’m buying myself a little treat’ economy.

So what’s Twitter Cancer’s take on this. For us Stage 4 patients…do you buy yourself trauma gifts (special treats following procedures) or other unnecessary items knowing that time is limited (might be years, months, whatever)?

Just when I thought I finally got my sleep schedule in order… spring forward said lol no.

Today felt like a “just keep going” kind of day.

Staying the f*ck away from feelings & memories associated w/ our trauma does nothing but guarantee they will continue to live in our body, nervous system, & endocrine system exactly as they do right now. If nothing changes, nothing changes.

This! ⬇️

@katievscancer That’s so hard to hear. Comments about how someone “looks” can be so complicated. People usually mean well, but illness doesn’t always show itself on the outside. Sending you strength as you navigate this 🫂

@Rawxsin Someone told me recently she just knows I’m going to beat cancer because of how I looked that evening. She definitely meant well but it made me internally cringe. Three months later cancer has moved to my brain. 🥺

Part 1 “What does a cancer patient look like?" Many people tend to imagine a cancer patient as bald, thin, and sick-looking. However, the truth is that not all cancer patients look sick on the outside.

Illness reveals a lot about people. Sometimes who shows up. Sometimes who doesn’t. But it also reveals how complicated being human really is.

Night has a way of bringing every thought to the surface.