Blog - Yes to Life

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Alongside the print version of Issue One of Flourish Magazine, The Nourish Issue, we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as film, creative writing and blog posts. This week’s digital piece is a poem by Sheran Joy, ‘Chemo and The Cancer Cell’. Please note: this piece contains references... Read more »...

Monday, July 11th, 2022

How art helped me through my cancer treatment

Alongside the print version of Issue One of Flourish Magazine, The Nourish Issue, we are releasing weekly on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as film, creative writing and blog posts. This week’s digital piece is a blog by Amabel Mortimer on how art helped her through her cancer treatment. Read it below!... Read more »...

Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

The Woman Who Went in Pieces

The Woman Who Went in Pieces by Denise Bates Over the years, they took parts of her away. It started with a very big piece, a very long path snaked across her abdomen to mark its going. Other parts left only small marks, reminders of where they’d been. Then there were smaller pieces, sometimes only... Read more »...

Monday, June 20th, 2022

Flourish Magazine: Navigating the Integrative Approach to Cancer by Jo van der Molen

Alongside the print version of Issue One of Flourish Magazine, The Nourish Issue (available to view digitally here: https://yestolife.org.uk/flourish-magazine), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as film, creative writing and blog posts. This week’s digital piece is a blog by Jo van der Molen on her... Read more »...

Saturday, June 11th, 2022

Flourish Magazine Launch

Launch of a new Magazine Flourish Magazine Alongside the print version of Issue One of Flourish Magazine, The Nourish Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as film, creative writing and blog posts. First up is short film ‘Inside Me’ by... Read more »...

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

My Top Tips for Using Yoga as a Complementary Practice for Cancer Care

By Jackie Hayfield Cancer is complicated! There are many different types and treatments, and how we respond is individual. As a yoga therapist and cancer survivor, I know first hand the support yoga can be in helping us through all the different stages of treatment and beyond. These are some of the things I have learnt along the way….. 1. ... Read more »...

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

Exercise is a dirty word for some, but…

Philip Booth takes a personal look at exercise in this blog…. There are many people that embrace and love a lifestyle rich with exercise, but there are many, who like me, have never liked the word or the idea of ‘exercise’. The US ‘Peanuts’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz once said; “Exercise is a dirty word.... Read more »...

Thursday, March 10th, 2022

Introduction to the role of lifestyle medicine for cancer prevention and survival. New Online Course

Lifestyle medicine is the fastest growing medical speciality globally. It is an evidence-based discipline which addresses the root cause of chronic health conditions by focusing on the lifestyle choices that give rise to these diseases in the first place. The six pillars of lifestyle medicine are a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, regular physical activity, restorative... Read more »...

Sunday, March 6th, 2022

When Treatment is over, do we really want a ‘Speedy’ Recovery?

This blog is by supporter, Adline Warwick Thompson. Isn’t it about time we both challenged and moved away from the tyranny of speed when it comes to healing and recovery? I’ve long asked myself this question, both in relation to working psychologically with individuals going through cancer, and also during my own recovery from treatment... Read more »...

Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

Anne’s experience of joining an online Yes to Life Wigwam support group

Hello! Let me introduce myself . . . my name is Anne and I live with my husband and our dog in Belfast, where I have been an English teacher for several decades. I love Shakespeare, Inspector Montalbano novels, and good coffee (particularly Kenyan and Ethiopian Blue Mountain). I also have cancer: Stage Four Neuroendocrine... Read more »...

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Fight, Soothe or find your ROAR?

Everybody has their own way of dealing with their cancer journey, but the thought of fighting it never made sense to me. I thought that this week’s Blog could be the sharing of these ideas: In my childhood I was surrounded by my parents arguing and fighting. My mother would take solace in alcohol and... Read more »...

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Dr Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies in their book ‘Anti-Cancer Living’ list ‘Rest and Recovery’ as one of the six basics to try and get right. Some of us living with cancer can sometimes forget this and spend more energy on other interventions and forget this crucial area of our life. At a recent Yes... Read more »...

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