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New Normal
Tova Parker

I just kept going. Kept stepping. Kept climbing.

The calmness of the water reminds me everything will be ok. And the mountains remind me that while I’ve overcome a huge challenge in 2020, there are more challenges to come. Challenges that will grow me. Challenges that will make me stronger.

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Health
Janaé Werts

I Choose My Feelings About my Body Like I Choose My Kicks

Feelings are like footwear, you can decide on a daily basis which ones you choose to wear. You wouldn’t choose something wack to style yourself in so why would you choose negative self talk about your body? Choose to love your body, it loved you enough to keep you here.

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New Normal
Miranda Gonzales

I Felt Like my Body Betrayed me

Breast cancer literally and figuratively cut me down and built me up. It forced me to see the “real” directly in front of my eyes, not the things my mind made up for me to see.

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New Normal
Marquita Goodluck

Beautiful Without Boundaries: My Breast Cancer Body Image journey

The first word that comes to mind when I think of my post-cancer body is “journey.”

Journey is the word used to define the complete treatment plan that a breast cancer patient must take, but what I didn’t realize is that each part of the breast cancer experience has its own journey.

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New Normal
anonymous

My body: An in-between story

I was then hit with the insta-browsing realization that everyone who has had breast cancer or a preventive mastectomy is in my tribe. Not because I found the #unilateralmastectomy, with gorgeous bodies flaunting all kinds of styles.

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Cristina's Corner
Michelle Lee Pina

To Feel Beautiful After Breast Cancer

I had become the patient; he became the caregiver. He saw me differently. Fragile. In pain. Suffering. All I wanted was to be loved in every way — to be a wife, a lover, a sexual being.

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Beauty
Tova Parker

To be or to Become

But what I’ve come to realize is that I was only interested in “being” Tova 2.0 and not “becoming” Tova 2.0.

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Beauty
Miranda Gonzales

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Living your life with your outward appearance so entrenched in your personal identity can make for extreme emotional issues when cancer takes your hair from you.

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