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The Psychology Of Persistence. How to Survive and Thrive

How to have persistence in the face of adversity is a question I am often asked about. How do you maintain your unwavering belief when things you do don’t seem to work or you fail at them? This question whilst relevant in all areas of life seems particular fraught around the subject of cancer, or living […]

Trump and Cancer cells

Trump and Cancer cells

Is the hyperbaric oxygen working? Well I have steadfastly applied myself to the act of arriving on time almost daily before the tank gets locked, and succeeded. For those of you who have been accompanying me on this blog journey for a while you will know what a herculean effort that has been. (https://cancerguineapig.com/2012/11/07/queer-femme-time-pt-1/) The […]

10 Top Psychological Tips for Dealing With a Cancer diagnosis.

10 Top Psychological Tips for Dealing With a Cancer diagnosis.

Hello dear reader, firstly let me tell you that on hearing the words cancer related to you and your person, or to some-one you know  – either as a surety or a possibility –  it is likely that you will feel like your world has collapsed and the chill of death has nipped the air […]

The Power Of The One Is The Power Of The Many

Hello dear readers, a couple of you were asking about the maggots. Rest assured they do get a mention today albeit briefly. As you are probably by now aware, I like to write things a few weeks after the fact in order to give me time to reflect and process. So I arrived back in London […]

European Adventures pt6: Goat Time

European Adventures pt6: Goat Time

It’s astounding, time is fleeting and the goats are bleating – especially the young billy who has just been relocated to the male pen away from his mother and sister with the 3 other billys where he will grow into a hoary old goat. Time is ticking though. I am stuck on the farm but […]

European Adventures pt.3 Escape From Krankenhutch

Hello once again dear readers, glad you could join me as I continue my long tale of summertime happenings in the life of my alter ego – a guineapig called Calliope. If you recall in my last post I was resting and re-ecuperating in a German Hospital in Neu Brandenberg. In fact I had settled […]

European Exchanges and other stories Pt 1

       So dear reader hello from the land of exploratory health adventures German hospitals and anarchist organic farms. So much has happened to this guineapig I almost don’t know where to start but start I will with a nice dramatic story! So I got invited to go to a festival outside of Berlin […]

2015 HAPPY NEW YEAR

According to Tom Kaypacha and his astrological and cosmological reckonings the aspects between Mars and Jupiter at this time are creating a massive birthing process – we are being squeezed by double force contractions out of the mother’s birthing canal into the new paradigm- out of the old and into the new. In a candid […]

CONSCIOUS INCOMPETENCE

  Apparently I am now consciously incompetent and this is a good thing, according to V my amazing and angular hypno-therapist at the Marie Curie. Consciously incompetent or not I do though have new thick curtains and a curtain rail –  courtesy of the Macmillan fund –  which are also both in their rightful place […]

Hormonic Theory

Hormonic Theory

A darkened hutch, a midrith grown big, a confused womb and a perimenopausal Guineapig. Fear not fellow readers – the hutch is darkened refers to Calliope’s wistful attempts to block out the light from the thoughtfully installed street lamp outside her bedroom window that doubles as football stadium illuminator, in the belief that darkness helps […]