Election Empathy, No Matter How You Voted
"This first episode is SO timely. Jackie and I discuss the election, empathy, what we do when we disagree with someone and how we can do family better in the midst of this pandemic. It's the perfect way to center your mind and heart." - Jessica Do we have an answer?...
Empathy and the Police – Voices For Change Podcast
Thanks to Danita Harris for an enlightening, timely, and succinct conversation about empathy and the police. "We are dealing with a pandemic, racial reckoning, an election, natural disasters and remote learning. We are stressed to the max and trying to find successful...
Resilience – Yes! And…
“My cancer marker is still going down, now with natural healing.”- Jackie (mom) “I expect nothing less.” – Sophie (daughter) If you told me a year ago that I’d be thrilled to watch my eyelashes grow back in, I would have been horrified. But it’s true. Such is the...
Looking Cancer in the Face, We Find Hope
Jackie on left with active ovarian cancer, January 2020 – 3 weeks prior to diagnosis “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.” -Bob Goff Do you know someone who has battled cancer? I hope it’s not you...
What Does Freedom Mean to You? – A Taste of Music Therapy
"The LIft" “In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” – Victor Frankl, Austrian...
Choosing Life Over Fear
LeMay Family 2007 and 2020 "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela Do you remember quotes? I usually don’t, but some version of that one has been on the tip of my tongue for decades. I’ve been afraid many times. Stepping onto a...
Why I Have Cancer and How I am Healing: Empathizing with Our Bodies
How are you today? “I am well in all the ways that really matter.” – Akua (aka Mary Alice) Saunders MEd, MSN, CNS My body knows why I have ovarian cancer. I’m finally listening, so now I do too. I didn’t get the answers from Western medicine, functional medicine, or...
The Healing Power of Music is Empathy
“I will get well not out of fear of dying, but out of the joy of living…and self-expression.” – Belleruth Naparstek, Health Journeys Meditations, “Fight Cancer” Has music ever made you feel less alone? I hear it. I see it. I feel it…differently now. Music therapy is...
The Superpower of Empathy – Interview with Lila Lazarus
Lila Lazarus and I talked about #empathy, #leadership, family, coronavirus, ovarian cancer...and more. I loved every second of our conversation, even the hard parts. Making people feel safe, seen, and heard is an empathic superpower that Lila has in spades. It has...
A Recovering Chemist Learns to Empathize with Chemotherapy…for Now
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo As platinum drugs drip into my veins, one thing goes through my mind: It shouldn’t be this way. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to have this option since I was diagnosed with ovarian...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
“The root of suffering is attachment.” Buddha. It’s cold being bald. Come summer, it might be fun to feel the cool breeze, dunk in the ocean whether it’s hair washing day or not, or take a ride in a convertible without hair whipping my face. For now, I’m cold. I never...
Empathy in the Time of Coronavirus…and Cancer
I have a front-row seat to empathy these days, and not only in the context of a global pandemic. On February 20, 2020, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. On March 2, I had extensive surgery. By the time I came home from the hospital, the country had begun going into...
