Awake & Align

This is where healing meets honesty and vulnerability.

In Awake & Align, I share personal stories, practical tools, and soulful guidance for navigating life with and beyond cancer.

From reflections on diagnosis to daily rituals, breathwork, self-regulation, meal ideas, and mindset shifts—

this space is here to support your path back to wholeness.

Whether you're in treatment, in remission, or walking beside someone who is—you're not alone here.

This blog is for you if you're ready to move beyond survival, into something deeper:

clarity, calm, and self-trust.

Riding the Waves Through Chemo

I asked my doctor: What can I do to keep myself fit? Can I go out in the water? Surfing had just become one of my biggest loves. Being...

Aug 51 min read

I was recovering from one of the most intense medical interventions of my life. Maybe the most intense, full stop. Four days in bed....

Aug 11 min read

I walked in with my head held high. I didn’t know what was coming— but I was ready to face it. Blood values? Perfect. Doctor? Calm....

Jul 251 min read

The first time I heard the word chemotherapy , I didn’t even know what it was. I thought it was the same thing as radiation. I nodded in...

Jul 231 min read

When I got diagnosed with cancer, I kind of knew it was coming. Not just physically—though the tumor in my neck had been speaking loudly...

Jul 212 min read

I was walking around with a tumor in my neck—but I didn’t know it yet. Or maybe I did. Deep down, something felt off. I didn’t want to...

Jul 182 min read