Sep 8, 2020
Blog - Reflections - Spirituality
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...
May 20, 2020
Blog - Reflections
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....
Mar 26, 2020
Blog - Healthy Lifestyle - Reflections - Stories - Warrior
Managing your New Normal with these Social Distancing Ideas
Hey ANGELS, it's Patricia Fox, the Pink Sistah. This is a care check to see how you all are coping with COVID-19 and social...
Feb 13, 2020
Blog - Reflections - Spirituality
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...
Jan 29, 2020
Blog - Reflections - Survivorship
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...
Jan 14, 2020
Blog - Reflections - Survivorship
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...
Nov 29, 2019
Blog - Reflections - Spirituality - Survivorship
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...
Sep 25, 2019
Blog - Metastatic Breast Cancer - Reflections
Overcoming the fear of recurrence and embracing my metastatic sisters
At my first conference for young women affected by breast cancer, I remember the other ladies talking about how their metastatic breast...
Sep 20, 2019
Blog - Reflections - Stories - Survivorship - Warrior
Something is wrong: An unlikely diagnosis
“Something is wrong,” I said to my mom on the phone, standing in front of the bathroom mirror. While my left breast had felt...
Sep 15, 2019
Blog - Living with MBC - Metastatic Breast Cancer - MY LIFE - Reflections - Stories
It all started with a lump…
It all started with a lump… At the age of 31, I was diagnosed with stage 1b intraductal carcinoma. It was life...