Cancer Humor Buddies with Saranne

Developing your comic perspective is like a superpower.

And you're going to hear me reference this a lot over the coming year.

This was one of my major strategies for handling so much news while I was battling stage four cancer.

And this really kept my spirits up.

So one of the ways you do it is that you find a humor buddy.

And when I was diagnosed with cancer, my closest humor buddy was my five turning six-year-old.

So we decided to become each other's humor buddies.

What does that mean? It meant that we made a commitment to each other twice a day to make the other one laugh.

Now, when you have the luxury of a little kid, that happens a lot.

But I wanted to be very conscious that the two of us shared, and we still do, a bit of humor, comedy, and play every day, especially while I was going through so many years of cancer treatment.

So it really doesn't matter if it's your kid, it's your husband, your wife, your partner.

your neighbor, your colleague, your doctor, your nurse, your teacher, anyone can become your humor buddy.

You make a consistent appointment to laugh at least one time every day with each other.

Now, just that little act will increase the amount of times that you get to laugh each week.

It's a way to take a pause and get a little bit of respite from the cancer world.

And it helps you breathe better and smile more throughout every single day.

Now, a funny aside is that my daughter, my humor buddy, actually became a TV writer in Hollywood.

And she is known for her comedic wit.

So I just tell you, be careful, humor buddies.

You might end up writing stand-up.

You might end up going to Hollywood as a writer.

If you start practicing developing your comic perspective and laughing with a humor buddy every day.

So I hope you laugh more.

I would love to know how you're using this strategy, who you're doing it with, and share your humor with me.

You can go to our laugh line, 1-888-HAHAHA.