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Abstract
The author, Susan G. Nesbit, was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2000. Facing the possibility of death, she used everyday creativity and self-actualizing creativity to tackle the inherent challenges of battling a chronic disease and to experience flow-as supported by the literature on “flow.” Many of her personal qualities, including courage, openness to experience, risk taking, and intrinsic motivation, contributed to her everyday creativity and her self-actualizing creativity. Flow activities enabled her to restructure her consciousness with positive rather than negative experiences, so she often was unaware of being on a journey with breast cancer. Examples of her flow activities included walking, socializing, art, music, writing, and even participating in routines. With flow, Nesbit found ordinary, everyday experiences to be spiritual-she found meaning in life. To celebrate her fifth anniversary post diagnosis, Nesbit moved from Portland, Maine to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She enjoys the challenges inherent in moving.