This blog post isn’t going to be the typical post that you would expect an interactive agency to publish.  We aren’t going to address why your business should have a blog, but rather how blogging is good for your health.  I started my own personal blog a little over two years ago.  The title of my blog is “To Life!”  It’s not indexed by Google or others and it doesn’t have any advertising.    When I started the blog I was diagnosed with cancer in the lining of my left lung. My lung was totally collapsed and I had difficulty carrying on a conversation.  The purpose of my blog was to communicate with friends and family members without taxing my body.

What started out as a method of communication, turned in to something that was therapeutic and I believe healing.  The support that I received through comments was phenomenal.   I had a following of readers that rallied around me and non-intrusively kept up with my chemotherapy treatments and surgeries.

I truly believe that a positive attitude helps the healing process and blogging helped me to stay positive.  Blogging gave me a chance to vocalize my fears and anxiety and even occasionally laugh at my situation.    One of my most favorite posts was the one I wrote the day that I eventually shaved off my remaining hair.  I posted a top ten reasons that being bald is great.

I am very thankful that after about 6 months I didn’t need to blog on a regular basis.  Following the health of a healthy person is frankly quite boring.  I still turn to my blog on special days such as my birthday and my anniversaries of diagnosis and remission.  Cancer changed my outlook on life and blogging allowed me to share my new outlook with those I love.

Side Note:

A team of MarketNet employees will be walking at this week’s Susan G. Komen’s North Texas Race for the Cure.  Even though I didn’t have breast cancer, the chemotherapy drugs that I was given were discovered originally for treating breast cancer. This foundation is among those that hold a special place in my heart.  If you are at the race we will be wearing MarketNet t-shirts and would love to meet you.  If you would like to donate to Susan G. Komen, please visit our team page.

Jill Bach
MarketNet Founder