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Fighting cancer, living life

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When writer, editor and teacher of creative writing Jackie Buxton was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2013, she did what she always does when life presents her with a ‘bit of a challenge’- she wrote it down…

Her thoughts soon found their way into her blog. When she posted about losing her hair, that chemo could be fun or about the foods to try when it makes everything taste of mud stirred with bicarbonate of soda, people wrote to say that her blog had helped. It had calmed their nerves and made them smile.

A year after diagnosis, realising she had so much more to say Jackie joined forces with Urbane Publications to produce Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life. The result is a unique mix of her original blog posts and further thoughts and experiences of everything from mouth ulcers to premature menopause, chemo cough to twitchy legs, together with a light-hearted look at what to say and what not to say when someone tells you they have cancer.

Jackie joins June, Tina and Sue on this Sunday’s show to share some of the highs and lows of the past three years. She’s also be talking to the Girls Around Town about the inspiration behind her new novel Glass Houses, the story of two women, their stupid mistakes and the devastation they cause, as well as the silver linings.

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon to hear Jackie describe how she set out to give hope to everyone who has to cope with this devastating illness by making Tea & Chemo  ‘the book I wanted to read when I was diagnosed – the truth coated with positivity and optimism’.

Hot off the press

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Fiona’s back on the show next Sunday and the week’s hot topic (apart from a quick mention no doubt of Wednesday’s Great British Bake Off final!) is one that will strike a chord with many Girls Around Town listeners: the facts and myths surrounding the menopause.

In the first hour, she’ll be talking about how she’s helped lots of ladies through the transition of menopause over the past 16 years. Realising that women are very keen to help themselves and open to lots of different health ideas to achieve this, she’s put together some of the most successful things she’s seen work into a presentation which she’s now offering as a girls night in with a difference.

And the best part of it is, Fiona will come to you…

Then, after 11am, Deborah Garlick joins Fiona and June hotfoot from the successful launch of the Henpicked book, Menopause: The Change For The Better.

Find out why Deborah feels so strongly about the need for women to embrace the change, how the book came about and how its launch on World Menopause Day last week saw her #HotFlashMob tweets trending in the UK’s top 10 topics!

Tune in or listen online from 10am to 12 noon to discover how, as the women who will live longer post-menopause than any others in history, we can all make it count!

Get more of what you want – more often

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cosmic orderingNot surprisingly, one of the topics on last week’s show was New Year’s resolutions, which prompted Tina to talk about Cosmic Ordering.

Have you ever had that experience where you’ve been thinking about getting in touch with someone and then the phone rings and it’s them? Or you decide you want something and it turns up seemingly out of the blue?

Maybe, like Tina, you’ve written down the specific attributes that you want in something such as a new home, only to realise sometime later that your wishes were actually fulfilled right down to the last detail?

Well, that’s cosmic ordering! Although it’s a concept which has been around for as long as humanity, the term for this version of positive thinking was first used in 1995 by German journalist Bärbel Mohr, to describe the process of identifying something you want or need in your life, becoming clear and specific about what it is and then ‘placing’ the order with the cosmos.

Find out more this week when Ellen Watts, author of Cosmic Ordering Made Easier, joins the Girls Around Town to explain what it is, what it isn’t and what prompted her to write a book on the subject…

She’ll also share some of her stories of cosmic orders, a process for placing your own and the importance of adding ‘for the good of all concerned’ at the end of every one.

Tune in on Sunday from 10am till 12 noon or listen online to discover how changing your mindset and calling on the cosmos can help you get more of what you want – more often!