Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and wellbeing, and mental illnesses are common and treatable. While 1 in 5...
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...
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...
Genomics and You: Screening for Women at High Risk (2 of 4)
There is no question that genetics has become a hot topic in medicine. It seems that every week there is an...
Being Real and Raw (4 of 4)
Yes, going through treatments is about finding the humour in things, it’s about distracting yourself with fun and laughter, it’s the...
Resonating with “Survivorship” (3 of 4)
I received the call from my doctor announcing my diagnosis on October 13, 2009. October happens to be Breast Cancer Awareness month. A...
Digging Deep – 2 of 4
Why me? When I stop to think of my life and how it seemed at the time of diagnosis I can identify areas where I was unhappy or...