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...
