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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply 4:35 pm
  • Journal · 96 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

letting go....

DragonflyDream
  • By DragonflyDream · New reply September 4, 2008
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • Finally at age 47 I let go of my desire/need for my mother's approval. I let my husband hear 27ish years of pent up hurt, disappointment, pure pain come streaming out and the next day I felt so much better ...

Eureekah!

datagrl
  • By datagrl · New reply September 3, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • So, I made an astonishing discovery about my health by reading an Andrew Weil news letter. The news letter listed several symptoms and stated that if you had any of them, you might benefit from taking ...

Massage question

DragonflyDream
  • By DragonflyDream · New reply September 3, 2008
  • Discussion in Questions · 2 replies
  • I have actually been told by massage therapists that they will not massage me because I have cancer and they are afraid of spreading it!!!!!! This can't possibly be true can it ...

bad news.....

DragonflyDream
  • By DragonflyDream · New reply August 23, 2008
  • Journal · 32 replies
  • Well as life will have it, of fate, or whatever, I had my latest cat/PET scan on Monday and the Cancer Institutes phone lines have been down and are still down today. This means I have not been able to ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

A survivor

DianeM
  • By DianeM · Posted June 5, 2008
  • Discussion in Why I get massage therapy · 0 replies
  • I'm a two time cancer survivor, as we are all survivors. First time, Hodgkins Disease, about 20 years ago. The second time, was last year, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I get massage therapy ...

**Updated** System maintenance: Tuesday June 10th, 5 am - 7 am Eastern

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 5, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • ** Updated ** Due to power outages caused by storms in the Washington, DC area, we need to postpone this maintenance until Tuesday June 10th, from 5 am to 7 am. Thanks for your patience. ** Updated ...

getting along well

AgainstalOddz1
  • By AgainstalOddz1 · New reply May 31, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • ....I'm doing it, I'm getting on my way to walking and being independent!! It's tough though, cause i must leave my comfort zone and venture back out there. Yes there are many "road blocks" along my path ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

New Group Member

sassygma
  • By sassygma · Posted April 21, 2008
  • Discussion in Why I get massage therapy · 0 replies
  • My life crossed paths once again with a very old friend who i hadn't seen for years. It turned out she had gone to massage school and when she learned of what i was going through she asked me to find ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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