What Does Your Pie Chart Tell You?

May 24, 2009

I was reading a snippet in a recent email from Cure Magazine. One of their readers wrote this amazing piece of helpful advice. I thought it was such a cool idea; I wanted to share it with all of my readers as well. Thank you to Cure and Mary W. for permission to reprint this!

FROM MARY W: The best medical advice I had after a cancer diagnosis was from a psychologist who was a cancer survivor. She asked me to draw two circles and separate them into pie pieces for the different activities in my life before and after cancer. My post-cancer diagnosis circle was almost completely taken up by cancer. She talked about the need to gradually recover my life from cancer and to consciously begin to bring back the things that were important to me before diagnosis. This was an important exercise for me to keep cancer from overtaking my life, and for me to recognize new positive areas of growth from my cancer journey.