You are listening to Best Life After Cancer, Episode Number 38. This week we are talking about PTSD. I want to remind you that I am a doctor, but not your doctor, so run all medical issues by your primary team. If you are in crisis, and thinking about harming yourself, please call 911 or reach out to national suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

Hey, friends. Hope you are well. I am typing this going into Valentine’s Weekend. We are not really people who make a big deal of this. My husband and I don’t do a gift exchange or anything, but do plan a dinner together sometime close to the day (usually not on actual Valentine’s day – too crowded and limited menus and other things that make it less fun). On the actual day, we usually have some sort of fun dinner as a family with as many heart things as I can add – this year I found red heart shaped ravioli at Costco that I know my kids will love, chocolate covered strawberries, and more fun treats. I...

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If you are an animal lover, this post will be a trigger.  If  you have lost someone in a traumatic way, this will be a trigger, and I ask you to consider seriously not reading it.  I  am sharing with you a very personal story about how coaching changed my life, but it is gory and gruesome along the way.  

As you may know, we go to Maine every summer.  You may also know we have dogs.  Our first dog was a chocolate lab named Hershey.  She was the sweetest, and so good with our boys.  We got her when the twins were about a year and a half old.  When she was about 8, we were in Maine and rented a pontoon boat.  We didn't know there was supposed to be a gate on the front to keep anyone from slipping off the front, and going between the pontoons and through the motor.  At one point, with all of us on the boat, we slowed down.  Hershey lost her balance and fell off the front.  We felt the motor hit her....