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I’m trying something new inside Life, After.Starting in October, I’ll be hosting a free 3-day guided session each month,...
09/30/2026

I’m trying something new inside Life, After.

Starting in October, I’ll be hosting a free 3-day guided session each month, focused on one specific part of living through and beyond breast cancer.

And for October, I wanted to start with something that can be… complicated.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Because October can feel very different depending on where you are.

Maybe you were just diagnosed and suddenly breast cancer is everywhere you look.

Maybe you’re in the middle of treatment and the pink ribbons feel a little disconnected from what your actual life looks like right now.

Maybe you finished treatment years ago and October still brings up things you weren’t expecting.

Or maybe you’re perfectly happy to wear the pink shirt and go to the fundraiser and celebrate every bit of awareness. That’s okay too.

There isn’t one right way to feel about it.

So I’m calling this month’s session:

Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Your Way

Three days. Three short guided practices. A little space to check in with yourself, make room for whatever this month brings up, and think about what you actually need.

And if you know a woman who has been through breast cancer, you can send this her way.

You don't have to know exactly what she's feeling.

You don't even have to know whether she needs it.

You can just say, “Hey, I saw this and thought of you.”

Sometimes that's enough 🩷

09/01/2026

I am not a consistent journaler - which may surprise you if you know how much I talk about it.

Journaling has helped me SO much. I use it as a coping mechanism, as a strategy to get out of my own head, as a way to problem solve and come to a decision. Journaling helps me clear my head and calm my fight or flight response.

I don't lie to myself when I journal, but I had to make that a rule. It's harder to write a lie, you question how to write it more than you do the truth.

When I was trying to unspool all of the thoughts in my head when I was first diagnosed, I reached for the pen with a feverish need. My brain was running at warp speed and I needed to get some of the thoughts and fears out of there so that I acknowledged them and could start to let them go.

Have you ever tried that?

I'm not going to tell you to meal prep for three weeks or overhaul your entire life.That's not what control looks like r...
08/24/2026

I'm not going to tell you to meal prep for three weeks or overhaul your entire life.

That's not what control looks like right now.

Control is smaller than that. And it's more real.

Here's what you can actually control this week:

1. One morning you don't check your phone first thing. You sit up, you breathe, you notice you're still here.

2. One meal you eat sitting down. Not standing at the counter, not scrolling, just eating.

3. One boundary you hold. Even if it's just saying no to coffee with someone who makes you feel like you need to perform being fine.

4. One thing you write down. A fear, a hope, a weird symptom, a moment you felt like yourself. It doesn't have to be pretty.

5. One walk. Even if it's to the mailbox. Even if your body feels like it belongs to someone else.

6. One person you're honest with. Not the full story, maybe. But one true sentence.

7. One thing you do just because you used to like it. Not because it's healing or productive. Just because.

You don't have to do all of these.

You don't have to do any of these perfectly.

But picking one and doing it anyway is how you start to feel like yourself again.

Save these steps to guide your week. What's one thing you'll take control of today?

08/21/2026

Navigating Cancer with Confidence - a free summit I will be participating in on Saturday September 12th. See all of who will be there at the end of the video...

Save the date, details to register coming soon! Laleh Tulip

07/11/2026

This week has been hard. Busy, stressed, sad - but also fun, proud, and with laughter.

I raised almost $2200 for the Dartmouth Cancer Center through the The Prouty: Go all in to end cancer and I'm so proud of that. And I'm also proud of the work I have put into my health with diet and exercise. This body could hardly walk the Prouty Wooded Walk last year post op and 20lb heavier.

This survivorship thing is a blessing and a complete shift of lifestyle in order to still do what I want to do. And yet, it's possible! Finding the ways that work for you may not be easy - it took me 3.5 years of trying to figure out what would work for me. I'm so glad that I kept my tenacious spirit and used it for my own benefit!

Thank you to the Dartmouth Health Cancer CeDartmouth Healthto Upper Valley Aquatic CenteUpper Valley Aquatic Center friends, thank you to all my friends, family and clients, and last but certainly not least, thank you to Chad Albrecht for always sChad Albrechtto keep stretching myself 🩷💛🚴🏼‍♀️

One of the things I was the most afraid of when I was first diagnosed was missing the big moments in my kids lives. Toda...
05/17/2026

One of the things I was the most afraid of when I was first diagnosed was missing the big moments in my kids lives. Today I got to carefully take the tags off of my son's new suit, press his shirt, and help him choose a tie. I got to charge the battery for my Nikon and go take photos of him for prom with his friends.

When my oldest went to prom I was so excited, just a year past my last infusion. I was still pretty bald, so I wore a big fancy sun hat. That same year I watched them graduate. These are the moments that kept me going through chemo, and driving to each radiation appointment.

To those of you who are feeling awful today, I hope this helps you remember something you are fighting for 🩷

Toxic positivity doesn't live here.But I also work really hard not to let one truth — I had cancer — take over the whole...
04/13/2026

Toxic positivity doesn't live here.

But I also work really hard not to let one truth — I had cancer — take over the whole story of my life.

Because there were genuinely great moments in the middle of treatment. Bike rides between chemo rounds. My kids' swim meets with a wig, sunscreen, and zero regrets. Good days that surprised me. Small things that felt big.

And I was not going to let a rule about how cancer patients are supposed to feel steal those moments from me.

That's not toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is "everything happens for a reason" and "just stay positive" and making someone feel like their grief is a problem.

This is something different. This is deciding, on purpose, what gets to take up space in your life. Then and now.

Some days I got it right. Some days I didn't. I'm certainly not perfect at it.

But if you're white-knuckling the positivity right now because you think that's what you're supposed to do, you don't have to. You can feel what you feel AND choose what you give your attention to. Those aren't opposites.

Comment or DM me
REAL
for what helped me actually hold both of those things at once. 💛

Can we talk about feeling gaslit by your own symptom list?When I was going through radiation, I felt like dog poo. And n...
04/08/2026

Can we talk about feeling gaslit by your own symptom list?

When I was going through radiation, I felt like dog poo. And not the symptoms on the official 'breast radiation side effects' list. Different things. Things that weren't anywhere on the handout they gave me.

When I asked my rad tech team, they said the issues couldn't be from the radiation.

I started to wonder if I was imagining it. If I was being dramatic. If everyone else was just handling it better.

I wasn't. And you're probably not either.

Here's what I've come to believe: your body is telling you something real. It might not be on the list. It might not be what the internet says. But if it's happening to you, it's worth paying attention to.

Advocate for yourself. Ask the question even if you're not sure it's the right one. Trust that you know your body, even when your body is doing things you don't recognize yet.

You were living in this body for decades before the diagnosis. That knowledge doesn't disappear.

If you've ever felt like you had to justify your symptoms, comment REAL or DM me. I see you, and I want to send you something that helped me start trusting myself again. 💛

04/07/2026

It's harder to lie to yourself in writing.

That's why I journaled through treatment.

Not because someone told me to. Because I needed to talk to myself — and writing made it harder to avoid what was actually true.

I'd write what I was feeling.
Then ask why.

Getting it out of my head made space for what I actually needed.

There's a specific way I used it that made the biggest difference.

Comment or DM me STEADY and I'll send it to you. 💛

I spent a lovely weekend with friends and family, I hope you did too! It was a wonderful way to celebrate 4 years since ...
04/06/2026

I spent a lovely weekend with friends and family, I hope you did too! It was a wonderful way to celebrate 4 years since my first biopsy and official diagnosis.

We had friends over last night for game night, today we hid eggs for our kids (we love to torture them and make it nearly impossible, now that they're adults), my mom was here for brunch, and then we restrung a wind 🌬️ chime that broke in a storm. I put it back up and can't wait to hear it next time it's windy!

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