Stories, strategies, and straight talk to help you push through life’s toughest battles.
Whether it’s health, mindset, or personal challenges, this series is about one thing:
Never Quitting.
Fight For Your Life started with a hard truth — my words could help people, but I had stopped sharing them. This series is my course correction: practical lessons, hard-earned perspective, and unapologetic grit for anyone facing battles they didn’t choose but refuse to lose.
Fight For Your Life exists to share strategies, perspective, and grit from real people. My intention is simple: to gather voices from fighters, loved ones, and caregivers so that no one in the fight feels alone. Together, these stories can become a source of hope and practical help for anyone facing battles they didn’t choose but refuse to lose.
How You Can Help:
Fighters: Share what keeps you moving forward and the lessons you’ve learned in your fight.
Loved Ones: Tell us what it’s like to walk beside someone you care about and what you’ve discovered along the way.
Caregivers: Offer your perspective from the front lines — what gives you hope and what you wish patients and families knew.
Your words may appear on the Fight For Your Life blog or become part of the upcoming book. Most importantly, they may help someone else keep fighting.
Each form takes about 10 minutes. At the end, you’ll have the option to volunteer for a longer interview. You may remain anonymous.
Strength is often mistaken for resolution. But there’s a wide middle between victory and defeat—a place where the fight is ongoing, the outcome is unknown, and you’re still living your life.
Having thoughts about the unthinkable does not mean you’ve made a decision. It means you’re confronting reality and choosing how you carry what’s heavy instead of pretending it isn’t there.
I spent a long time believing that I could do everything for everyone. I was good at it too. But capacity has limits, and every yes carries a cost that isn’t always visible until it’s too late.
A single sentence I blurted out at fourteen taught me a lesson in gratitude I still carry today. Three decades, a cancer diagnosis, and a lot of life later… I finally understand just how much that moment shaped me
When my mind started filling with doubt, fear, and stress, I realized I needed a reset. That’s how I created two simple tools: the Burn List and the Focus List. One clears out the negative thoughts weighing you down, the other centers your energy on what truly matters. Here’s how I use them to reclaim momentum — and how you can too.
How to embrace, protect, and appreciate your support system The Nurse Who Got It Right It wasn’t easy to walk, but that was the point. The day after abdominal surgery, I was encouraged to make 3–5 laps around the hospital floor. I felt like I’d struggle to keep up...
When life tries to knock you down, you have a choice: stop at survival or live anyway. This isn’t about waiting for a breakthrough moment — it’s about small acts of defiance that add up to purpose.
We all face our own versions of hell — disease, loss, seasons that strip us bare. You can’t live there. You claw forward, inch by inch if you have to. This is my story of refusing to quit, and the poem that’s helped me keep moving when the fire got close.
Whether you’re facing a major life challenge like cancer or navigating the complex systems that shape your health, career, or relationships, one truth remains: no one will fight for you like you can. Over the past two years, I’ve been living inside the world of...
So that’s where we’re at. It seems like we’ve settled in for the long game. This is not a fight that is going to go one way or the other any time soon.
What I have learned is that EVERYTHING I thought I knew about diet was wrong. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that I had been lied to my entire life about proper nutrition, what was good and what was bad for me, and how to lose weight (spoiler alert, it has little to do with calories in/calories out and cardio exercise and much more about how much and when to eat.)
I would love to know what you’d like to see me write about in the Fight For Your Life Category. While the theme is fighting against life threatening diseases, I’m happy to see if you have a diferent take on what it means to Fight For Your Life. Just fill out the form below. Names are optional and will only be used with permission.