About Arise2Live
Steps Forward On Your JourneyBuilding Bridges
Arise2Live’s Mission is to provide perspective, information, and encouragement for people discovering and living out survivorship with medical adversity.
Mission & Purpose
Bridging the Gap between Healthcare and Home.
Bridging the Gap between Science and Emotion.
Bridging the Gap between Circumstances and Faith.
Be proactive. This site focuses on medical survivorship, covering two major themes: discovering and living survivorship with a variety of topics. However, this webpage can not present detailed information for every situation or provide doctor’s advice. Instead, consider the information and perspectives here as the starting line, a place where you can get ideas and then proactictively adapt them to your particualir situation. As always, follow your doctor’s instructions.
“How many small miracles add up to a big miracle?”
– Scott R. Weaver
What do we mean by ‘Survivorship’?
We start in an unexpected place: Survivorship is somewhat related to Stewardship. It implies a balance of life by taking care of the personal side of life while taking care of the “others” side at the same time. We’re not saying this is easy.
Steward is a person who manages another’s finances, property, etc.
The very old language literal meaning is “house guard” or “house ward”.
Stewardship is the way or manner a steward takes care of things, how things are handled and managed.
Survivor is a person who lives beyond a medical emergency.
From Latin: supervivere super = beyond, over plus vivere = to live
Survivorship is the way or manner a survivor takes care of things and stewards how they handle and manage life.
Contributors
Arise2Live is beyond just one person. Here are some of our contributing “personalities”.
Nae Lynn
Wellness Writer
Scott R. Weaver
Founder
ABOUT
Survivorship is not a role Scott chose, but it happened.
Scott discovered survivorship the hard way during sarcoma cancer treatments in the cold winter of 2022-23. He was overwhelmed with the division and separations he experienced. Somehow medical treatment and “normal” home life was disconnected. His body’s healing and the food he was eating didn’t match. There was learning to overcome the distance between who he thought he was and who he was really. If that wasn’t enough, there was facing fears of mortality at the same time helping a younger generation mature. So much in so little time.
Along the journey Scott came across many such divisions that society said was “just is”. Yet, he discovered many things were possible and there is indeed God’s presence and light inside the dark night of the soul.
Out of this journey came the audacious idea that we can do better. A belief that we can work to shorten the distance between the healthcare and life separations for people living with medical adversity. As an analytical person with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a business MBA degree, he lives in a world where disconnects are to be connected. As a business consultant and former founding CEO of a tech start-up, Scott knows about the human element and the science aspects when trying to do better. It is hard. But doable.
The Movement
The Arise2Live movement is to help patients and caregivers discover survivorship in their own lives. By providing insight, perspectives, and motivation for people on the difficult journey of medical adversity so they can overcome. Arise2Live does not provide much guidance for medical treatments as best practices are changing all the time, but does help you find the starting point to overcome adversity and trauma.
The first step is to decide to Arise2Live. It is the positive choice we make every sunrise.
The Founder
Arise2Live was originally started in 2018 as a business podcast hosted by Scott R. Weaver. After 172 episodes, he had to stop because of his treatment for soft-tissue sarcoma. It was a very rare type of sarcoma that “evades classificatory efforts”; that is, it is an unknown type of sarcoma. Or perhaps better worded, a newly discovered type. (Scott always had a knack for invention–he holds a U.S. Patent). Scott is currently living near Nashville, Tennessee and working out his survivorship role from his sarcoma diagnosis and treatment.