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...
by Joe Birch | Jun 22, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
From the moment of diagnosis, it’s crucial to recognize the power within yourself. Our bodies have an incredible capacity to rejuvenate, repair, and heal. Embrace faith in your ability to overcome treatment and live the life you envision. Strengthening this belief...
by Joe Birch | Jun 17, 2025 | Miscellaneous
This post and video represent one of the darkest periods in my 4-year-8-months journey with Pancreatic cancer. It occurred during the months of April, May and June 2025.It documents my slow slide into depression and almost immobilization – and the reasons this...
