Category: Diva Training

• Coming Back to the Heart of Making of a Diva

  I started Making of a Diva when I was turning 40. Back then, it wasn’t about cancer. It wasn’t about diagnoses or scans or treatment plans. It was about identity. Transition. That quiet, unsettling moment when you realize life doesn’t look the way you thought it would — and you’re not entirely sure who you…

  Erika Sherek

  January 15, 2026

  Diva Training

• When the Hand-Holding Stops: Stage IV and the Vanishing Act of Cancer Care

  When you’re first diagnosed with cancer, the world seems to spring into motion. Suddenly, you have a nurse navigator. Appointments are made for you. Your phone rings with check-ins. Social workers appear with clipboards full of resources. The medical team seems to hold your hand every step of the way, from scheduling to scans, with…

  Erika Sherek

  August 13, 2025

  Diva Training, Stage IV Updates

  #fuckcancer, #stage4, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, metastaticbreastcancer, oncology, StageIV, warrior

• New Direction!

  Greetings all. So I feel like I’ve come to an end of my journey here on this site. What started out as a blog to help me track my progress in getting healthy and getting in shape in my 40s turned into my cancer blog. It’s been a year and 4 months since treatment ended.…

  Erika Sherek

  March 25, 2018

  Diva Training, Early Cancer Updates, General Update

• Half a level up!

  Dr. Evil visit yesterday. I think someone said something to him regarding the appointment I had with the other doc 2 weeks ago and why it’s taken so long, or he’s about as over all this as I am, because he couldn’t get out of my appointment fast enough….and the demon nurse wasn’t in the…

  Erika Sherek

  August 31, 2016

  Diva Training, Early Cancer Updates