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Laughter is the Best Healing Medicine!

When I was going through all the rough times of cancer, I always made it a point to include laughter in my day.  Watching something funny or reading it stimulates your body, enhances oxygen intake, and helps your brain release endorphins—our feel-good brain chemicals. This relieves stress and as we are all know—stress creates disease. …

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Moving Promotes Health and Well-Being

I just recently moved from a home filled with way too many items (a blog to come on “Living with Less”) and started thinking about how moving from one home to another, in a different city, is similar to healing from disease and cancer. First, we get a new itinerary and need to do our …

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Staying Positive Through Adversity

A rowing friend ordered two of my “Rowing through Cancer” books and I delivered them to her at the boathouse. Later that week on Thursday, I received a message telling me after receiving the books, she went to pick up her husband from his walk and learned that his recent MRI diagnosis was Pancreatic Cancer …

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“Rowing through Cancer” is now shipping!

For this weeks blog, I am sharing the introduction page of my book.   When you hear the words “We found cancer…” your life changes in an instant and it will never ever be the same again.  Alis Jordan Cancer changes everything about you. Your mental outlook, your diet, your body, your life!  But it doesn’t …

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A “Lifestyle Change” After Having Cancer Twice.

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.  That’s what I did and that’s why I believe my cancer returned the second time. My initial Endometrial/Peritoneal Cancer was stage 4 and I was pretty much given a death sentence.  The original doctors weren’t giving me much hope …

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My 6-month cancer checkup is clean!

My 6-month cancer checkup is clean! Though I am going into my second year of being cancer free I still get awfully nervous when going for my routine MRI and blood work.  These diagnostics from a well-known hospital give me my first line of defense at beating cancer.  Once again, yesterday was filled with emotions …

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