Demystifying life with chronic illness
Truth be told, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones our spirit needs the most. These two pictures are forty-eight hours...
Controlling My Story With Scalp Cooling
BY: Shea Mencel I was diagnosed with Stage II, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in June 2018. I was 29 years old....
Faith as a Foundation for Healing and Growth
"The View from the Mountaintop" by Lynda Gail Salmon, Ph.D. Three weeks after receiving my Ph.D., I was diagnosed with stage three...
Cancer at 27, Chemo at 28
I was sitting at our coffee table marking school papers when I scratched an itch on my breast. Initially, I felt a lump like a marble or...
Three easy ways to be a breast cancer advocate
One of the things I learned as a 2019-2020 Living Beyond Breast Cancer Young Advocate is advocacy can take many forms. In fact, there’s...
Holiday Blog: The answer is, through gratitude.
For any person, coming upon the end of a year can make you feel like you are searching for all the promises you’ve kept, goals...