by Joe Birch | Jan 16, 2026 | The Battle with Cancer
Transforming Night Terror into a free-floating spiritual adventure. Over the last 5 years and 3 months, I have shared with my readers and followers every phase of my Active Treatment – employing every weapon in the arsenal of Western medicine – a full out war to...
by Joe Birch | Jan 8, 2026 | Miscellaneous
Wow! It’s been a really long time since I have posted on my YouTube channel, and I am so glad to be back. 2025 was a very long and hard year for me on my Pancreatic cancer journey. Most of the year was spent on 2 different types of chemotherapies – when my...
by Joe Birch | Dec 22, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
As I awoke this morning from a dream, just days before my 82nd birthday, I was acutely aware that I have been in a near-trance this whole year of being 81. How did this happen to me? The answer was very clear in my dream. In the dream I was in a yoga class, trying to...
by Joe Birch | Dec 11, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
When you are a long-term cancer thrivor who has lived through every possible treatment option, multiple recurrences, disappointments, painful, debilitating side effects from treatments, you can begin to wonder if there is a Self still living inside your body. For the...
by Joe Birch | Nov 12, 2025 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
Wounds and coping mechanisms from early childhood have a lingering effect in adulthood. If you felt unseen and unheard; your independence was curbed; your emotional, physical, intellectual, social needs were not met by your parents, it is normal to develop basic...
by Joe Birch | Nov 4, 2025 | Understanding and Treating Anxiety
This is a phenomenon that people around the world are grappling with, and it is the focus of my article. I approach the topic as a person living with Pancreas cancer for five years, recently transferring my healthcare to City of Hope Lennar Cancer Center in Irvine,...
by Joe Birch | Oct 28, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
When I returned to Santa Monica in September, after 2 months in Santa Fe, I had weakness and numbness in my right hand, wrist, forearm and upper arm. I was unable to type on my computer. I went to UCLA Urgent Care and they had me admitted to the Emergency Room. The...
by Joe Birch | Oct 20, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
A Very Important Day For Me When I was first told by my Radiation Oncologist that he ordered 10 consecutive business days of radiation to my umbilicus, I thought it was a grim, impossible task. In five years as a Pancreatic cancer patient, I never had radiation. This...
by Joe Birch | Sep 29, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
A major investment in Life and my commitment to Live and to keep my garden beautiful.Please watch my story...
by Joe Birch | Sep 25, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
I have been my Heavenly Father’s child my whole life, but I came to know Him personally in 1976 – when I cried out in pain and asked Him to help me, a divorced young mother raising two little children, alone and poor. He entered my life and began to...
by Joe Birch | Aug 25, 2025 | Blessings from Nature
An Article/Video About Life Transitions This is little 3 month old Lakota Joy the first week we adopted him. The Vet said his feet couldn’t touch the sidewalk until he was vaccinated, but he was still too young. I was dying to take him on our public sidewalk, to...
by Joe Birch | Aug 19, 2025 | Blessings from Nature
Welcome To Santa Fe Indian Market I have been coming to Indian Market for over 30 years. My husband and I first came on our honeymoon. Each time, I go early in the morning on the first day and am like an excited child who can barely contain herself. Over the years, I...
by Joe Birch | Aug 15, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
Until today, I have purposely avoided any posts about cancer.I came with Lakota Joy to recover from 8 months of 2 chemotherapies and their cumulative side effects – which caused me to almost lose my Self and gave me a severe depression.We have now been here for...
by Joe Birch | Jul 31, 2025 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
We are finding our rhythm over here for 2 weeks already. It’s a whole different world: Western, natural, wild, simple, small, our own property with so many beautiful trees, space, birds, magnificent sky, rain, red earth and stones against the green trees. We...
by Joe Birch | Jul 11, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
I am back in my role as a writer and investigative reporter in this article. You may be wondering why am I writing about this topic? I have been unable to have a Mani-Pedi for 8 months because my fingernails and toenails were severely damaged by my chemotherapy. The...
