Breathe

A blog for people living with secondary cancer

  • October 4, 2025

    The Autumn Leaves

    And so the glory of the endless summer has faded and the nights are finally drawing in. In London there is that heavy earthy smell of leaves beginning to fall and gather in damp heaps. I love the smell of the Autumn here and the canal by my studio seems to echo the heavy scent…

  • August 21, 2025

    Healing

    What does it mean to heal? I‘ve been pondering this question on holiday as I begin to come back to my body. To relax and let it find its level. It’s new normal. I’ve been writing this post for two weeks on and off. Lost for words. Or just a bit… lost. I have been…

  • August 7, 2025

    Every Brilliant Thing

    Hello. It’s been a while. I collect things to tell you in my head but there has been so much going on in my heart and so little time to really process the past six months. Learning you have stage 4 cancer, well any cancer, hits you like a truck at full speed and since…

  • July 28, 2025

    I Don’t Want to Talk About It

    I’ve been playing with book ideas and beginning to write. One a Creative Cancer Companion and the other a series of essays called Seven Songs for Survivors based around songs by powerful woman. I think these may be compatible in the same book but as an ex TV tart I know this is really just…

  • July 17, 2025

    My Achey Breaky Heart

    Just as you think it’s safe to go back in the water….I came into A&E today with a chest infection and I’m kept in for a suspected heart attack! Rubbish. I’m fine. On these drugs I am supposed to report anything more than a minor sore throat. Paris and a few social occasions proved a…

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