Barbara Tako

A breast cancer and melanoma survivor who also speaks and writes about clutter clearing shares some cancer clutter clearing tips.

Melanoma survivor offers help based on her own melanoma experience and reading.

Survivor shares that there is no shame to talk to a therapist about life’s difficulties, especially when those difficulties have included coping with a cancer diagnosis and the ongoing fear of recurrence.

Cancer has a silver lining, too. Breast cancer and melanoma survivor shares hers.

Cancer has long arms for those further out from treatment coping with long term treatment consequences.

Seven-year breast cancer survivor offers ideas to cope with cancer emotions.

Two-time cancer survivor offers help for fatigue, including fatigue that is months and years out from active treatment

My little yellow dog helped me through cancer and over a year after her death, I still love and miss her--Barbara Tako

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor comments on downsizing from a cancer survivor's perspective.

Breast cancer survivor approaches the phone with dread with Mom in hospice with breast cancer.

As we approach summer, a melanoma survivor recovers from her fresh wounds and shares her thoughts.

Cancer survivor is happy to not be the center of so much attention and to move her own attention elsewhere after cancer.

Breast cancer survivor looks back and describes her radiation treatment and shares her tips.

A two-time cancer survivor, breast cancer and melanoma, discusses the empty nest process and cancer.

Cancer survivor discusses interviewing for jobs and returning to employment after surviving breast cancer and melanoma.

What about hope? Don’t kill hope. Breast cancer and melanoma survivor shares what helped at the time of diagnosis and early on in her cancer treatment.

Cancer survivor struggles to stay positive while supporting a newly re-diagnosed family member and friend.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor says you are allowed to feel what you are feeling, whatever that is.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor ponders the heart of the cancer diagnosis--a lifetime of ongoing uncertainty.

A breast cancer and melanoma survivor remembers the emotions and experiences after surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation are finished.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor vents about her weight gain frustrations several years out from her original cancer diagnosis.

Two-time survivor reflects about the cancer experience and offers perspective and hope.

Breast cancer survivor shares her chemotherapy tips for patients who need chemotherapy.

Cancer survivor discusses the emotional difficulties that came with going back to work after surviving breast cancer and skin cancer.

Two-time cancer survivor just doesn't trust the body that betrayed her--twice.

Breast cancer survivor says a cancer diagnosis is a shocking experience, and shares help to cope with it.

Two-time cancer survivor offers the perspective of time and experience to fellow survivors.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor who is also a clutter-clearing author shares her tips for cancer and other papers.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor shares coping tools that help her.

Two-time cancer survivor shares effective, yet gentle ways to change habits for the new year.