Barbara Tako

It was a hard call to make. It felt like choosing to step into the mud—again. Revisit cancer? Seriously? Why?

Two-time cancer survivor struggles with a different loss than cancer this holiday season.

Are you trying to get ready for the holidays in addition to being newly diagnosed with cancer, receiving active treatment or coping with survivorship? It’s not an easy task.

A two-time cancer survivor shares strategies that have helped her over the years with healthy eating habits and movement.

Cancer survivor shares ideas about how to live again in your own skin during and after cancer diagnosis.

Cancer survivor tries to actively practice gratitude during stressful holiday season and life's changes.

Two-time cancer survivor provides insight as a caregiver.

Two-time cancer survivor offers ideas to reduce clutter, even through difficult times.

Two-time cancer survivor offers ways to work toward happy.

What happens when the hustle, bustle, attention and care of active treatment end? Survivor shares what helped.

Two-time cancer survivor talks about managing fatigue.

Cancer survivor comments on life in an emptying nest.

Cancer survivor shares how cancer survivorship impacts her life choices as she moves forward.

It isn't always so "normal," is it?

Cancer survivor notices difficulty with changes and transitions since cancer.

If cancer hadn't happened to me, what would I be like? Have you ever asked yourself that?

Two-time cancer survivor and clutter-clearing expert offers tips for an easier Halloween for cancer survivors.

Two-time cancer survivor shares the frustrations of struggling with chemo brain. And yes, it's real.

Seven-year cancer survivor shares tips to help you get through cancer.

Breast cancer survivor and clutter-clearing author says live more simply to simply live by getting rid of clutter.

Breast cancer survivor shares how she copes with fear of recurrence while coping with her mom's breast cancer death and other life changes.

I struggle with this month every year since my breast cancer.

Why did I react so differently from my family? It’s hard to put into words, but other survivors would just get it.

Would you go see a genetics counselor again, now that there may be more to test for? Would you get a double mastectomy seven years out?

Breast cancer survivor reflects back on what she wishes the medical profession's approach could have been to her cancers.

Two-time cancer survivor says lets look death and dying in the face so we don't live our lives in (as much) fear.

An injured cancer survivor reluctantly but gratefully copes with neuropathy, osteopenia and stiff-joint cancer side effects after recently breaking her foot and getting surgery.

A breast cancer and melanoma survivor offers ideas to help newly diagnosed cancer patients cope and get through their cancer.

With summer over, two-time cancer survivor and clutter-clearing author shares time management help with a cancer-enhanced awareness that her time is her life.

Be prepared. After cancer, other medical issues can trigger outsized emotional responses.