New Beginning

Welcome!   My name is Ran Oehl, if you do not know me. It is nice meeting you here.

Finally, I am excited to resume my blog. This time, my goal is to write in English and Japanese. At least, I will try it as much as my time allow, though it could be one of them whenever the topic is more relevant to one of them.

Here is the brief history of my below. I started writing my blog in Japanese in 2006. I wanted to share my experience and stories how I survived with my American life and wanted to encourage Japanese people to give a try to live outside of Japan. If you want to read it (it's in Japanese, please visit my previous blog here.)

Then, I moved my blog here FeelMuchBetter.com in 2010. But my life got busy with many events and I could not write my blog regularly anymore especially after 2015.

And if you are a Japanese reader and regular visitor here, you have read my post in June 2016. It was about my Breast cancer reoccurrence.

After almost one year past, I am finally ready to restart my blog with more reasons and much more passion.

Since my 2nd Breast cancer diagnosis in March 2016, I have gone through a lot of things. My life's before and after are completely changed.  I have decided not to take any conventional treatment by this moment. It is still an option, which I would consider if it is the best option for me. But at this moment, I believe that I can heal and cure my cancer by using tools offered by my own body and natural treatments available out there.

Today, my breast cancer is still there. But I can tell that it is healing. I also know that I am on the right path. I also do not have any anxiety or fear by having cancer in my life, though  I did have them in the beginning. Cancer came to me the second time and it helped me to change my life, and I've never been so grateful. I am in the best place of my life.

I believe that some people are interested in reading my healing journey. And I have also learned that I need to share my story. I hope that my blog can help you to find inspirations and helpful information & resources.

With love and peace.

Ran

P.S.

English is not my first language. Though I do feel more comfortable with it than Japanese to express my emotions, I must admit that my English writing skill is not over the top. You will find that my grammar is not so good. But I write my blog with my heart. I hope that you can feel it regardless my writing skill. Meanwhile, I may look for someone who could help me with English grammar. Until I find a person, please bare with me and do not be too harsh with me. (I'd still appreciate your message if you would like to show me the grammatical errors. Send me a message from Contact me. Thank you! )

I have transferred blog system to my own software in April 2016. All posts prior to this transfer is in Japanese and some entries might be in private views only. Also, there could be broken links in these old articles, which was caused by system transfer as well. We are manually fixing these one by one. We are sorry for any inconvenices.