Archive - Redesigning Life After Breast Cancer

HOLDING SPACE FOR GRIEF, GRATITUDE, AND GRACE

A Year After Mastectomy

Nov 16, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

October 2025

WHEN THE LONGEST RELATIONSHIP YOU HAVE SEEMED TO HAVE FAILED YOU

This line sprung up in my consciousness this morning while waiting for the sun to rise.

Oct 4, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

June 2025

WHEN ONE STEP IS ENOUGH: Resourcing Ourselves from the Inside Out

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

Jun 28, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

PROTECTING YOUR INNER TERRAIN: Tending to Your Inner Circles

There comes a time—sometimes after a diagnosis, a heartbreak, a loss, or simply from deep inner clarity—when we are called to tend to our inner terrain…

Jun 20, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

WHAT'S ALIVE IN YOU? Practices To Sit With What’s Emerging

“Healing is not about returning to who we were.

Jun 8, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

A PERCEPTION SHIFT: How my definition of a rotten day has changed

Have you ever had a rotten day?

Jun 7, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE TENSION: Communicating Through Conflict During Recovery

Recovering from illness can become an unexpected site of tension in our relationships.

Jun 1, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

May 2025

HOW IT STARTED: A Pink Envelope and a Black Space in the Screen

Written May 30, 2024 by Lana Jelenjev

May 30, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

If You Can’t Find the Rainbow, At Least Find the Gray

How to Navigate Black-and-White Thinking

May 26, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

LEANING INTO GRACE: What to do when the inner critic is LOUD

“The softest sound I’ve learned to hear is the whisper of grace when my inner noise is deafening.”

May 22, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

When the Mind Feels Clouded: Brain Fog and the Breast Cancer Journey

“My brain used to be so sharp,” she whispered.

May 18, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

Why Redesigning Life After Breast Cancer?

For the past few weeks, I have been in deep contemplation.

May 18, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

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