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Knowing When To Let Go: My Inner Battle
Here I am 17 months out from being diagnosed with breast cancer, and most people when they see me say I look great, and seem to be doing...
Lauren Wiatrek
Oct 22, 20183 min read
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Warriors Together on the Battlefield
I wake up in the morning and my hands are swollen, they hurt to even close them. I cringe as I pry open my medicine, which is a pain I...
Lauren Wiatrek
Jun 11, 20183 min read
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Lighting up the Shadows
What people don’t tell you about having cancer is it doesn’t just rock your body to the lowest valley it will go. It is also casting a...
Lauren Wiatrek
May 29, 20183 min read
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Whole30 Flirty and Thriving
For real though, this has been the best thing I have done for myself this year. It has been a long time coming for me to get my eggs in a...
Lauren Wiatrek
Apr 21, 20187 min read
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Turning fret into faith.
Easter weekend 2017 will forever hold a place in my heart… quite an uncomfortable place to be honest. I was sitting on my mom’s bed, we...
Lauren Wiatrek
Apr 3, 20183 min read
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Slap in the Face
Since I have been on the transparent train lately, I figured it was a good time as any to share what has been eating away at me. I...
Lauren Wiatrek
Mar 29, 20184 min read
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Next Steps
Over the last eight months, I have been filling my bucket full of hope. Since my diagnosis, I was hoping that by February of this year I...
Lauren Wiatrek
Feb 5, 20182 min read
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Cancer burst my bubble.
While at my healing retreat this past weekend, we talked about a lot of stuff. The biggest topic was almost like cancer patients on one...
Lauren Wiatrek
Sep 19, 20174 min read
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Am I on the clock?
Time has been a mixture of a whirlwind and a standstill since the end of May. It took a long time for my diagnosis to sink in. I still...
Lauren Wiatrek
Sep 4, 20173 min read
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Stuck on the Runway
Have you ever had that feeling where you were sitting on a plane, on the runway, waiting for take-off? You keep yourself busy, by...
Lauren Wiatrek
Aug 8, 20173 min read
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