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Mish Middelmann

About

Mish Middelmann is recovering from cancer. He is the founder of a computer software and provider corporation in Johannesburg, South Africa. He consults with companies and organizations on team building and optimal workplaces.

Recent Posts

How Smart Collaboration Works

People need to collaborate across a variety of specialisations. Here's how they can get past the barriers.

Finding the New Normal After Prostate Cancer

Older men can explore living well with their changing bodies. We can navigate relationships after prostate cancer to find new and deeper forms of potency, libido, and intimacy

Juggling Mental Health and Wellness After Cancer

Personal Perspective: You can't control the chaos. Find ways of adapting to the wobbles instead.

Energy Changes After Cancer: Losses and Gifts

Cancer is a notorious energy drain. But life energy can be found and shared in new and redeeming ways - relevant far beyond the world of cancer survivors.

Cancer and Aging Have Widened My View of Eagerness

A Personal Perspective: “Forgive me,” I want to tell my partners from younger days, “my cis male body taught me that sexual arousal is something very obvious.”

A Personal Perspective: “Forgive me,” I want to tell my partners from younger days, “my cis male body taught me that sexual arousal is something very obvious.”

Open to Outcomes, Not Attached to Them

Internal navigation systems for humans need both the firmness of set goals, and the delicate flexibility of being open to outcomes

Internal navigation systems for humans need both the firmness of set goals, and the delicate flexibility of being open to outcomes

Radical Adaptability: The Zeitgeist for Survivors in 2021

Radical change is on the menu whether we like it or not. Be inspired by these extreme adaptation stories from cancer survivors to dinosaur businesses.

Radical change is on the menu whether we like it or not. Be inspired by these extreme adaptation stories from cancer survivors to dinosaur businesses.

The Healing Power of Stories

Struggling to listen to (or tell your own) cancer stories? There is a way to share stories that heals and connects, and honors the voice of the storyteller.

Struggling to listen to (or tell your own) cancer stories? There is a way to share stories that heals and connects, and honors the voice of the storyteller.

The Emotional Impact of Losing an Invisible Body Part

Personal perspective: When barely understood body parts are lost or removed, it helps to take time and go below the surface.

Personal perspective: When barely understood body parts are lost or removed, it helps to take time and go below the surface.

Love and Awkwardness Intertwined

Get over your fantasies about spontaneity. You were not born yesterday. Things have changed. You might as well laugh or else you’ll cry.

Get over your fantasies about spontaneity. You were not born yesterday. Things have changed. You might as well laugh or else you’ll cry.

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The Perfectionism Trap

When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.

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