LIVING WELL, Aug / Sept 2025 (Vol 10, No. 4)
We asked our writers what living well after a breast cancer diagnosis looks like for them. For some it’s finding joy in the small, everyday moments. For others it’s rebuilding confidence in their body or cultivating deeper relationships, new passions, or a sense of purpose. It's also about realizing quality of life matters, too. The stories in this issue are living proof that you can learn to live well after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Within this issue, you will find 21 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, Inflammatory and Lobular
- Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor MJ DeCoteau, founder of Rethink Breast Cancer
Cover Star Julia Girmenia
My Chemo Companion Was A Stand Mixer by Danielle Connor | The Life I Choose, Every Day by Vanessa Cuccurullo | An Unexpected Transformation by Susan DiGregorio | The Bright Angel Trail - One Trail, Two Hikers: A Collaboration with Cheri Henderson by Kelley Franks | Living Well Through Motherhood After Cancer by Carmela Giles | Thailand by Julia Girmenia | The Bright Angel Trail - One Trail, Two Hikers: A Collaboration with Kelley Franks by Cheri Henderson | The Diagnosis by Indira Layne | The Healing is in the Living by Gillian Lichota | A Love Letter to the Life I’m Building by Lisa Mannina | Ode to Ordinary by Kelsey McLaughlin | Sleeping Snakes and the Lake by Katie Murray | Hope Is A Cheeky Bastard by Roxanne O’Connell | Choosing Myself: A Love Letter to Living by Chance Osborne | Still Here by Lilly Ribner | A New Philosophy by Kate Rowbotham | I Met an Old Friend at the Gym Today by Keri Smith | Where Old Meets New by Robby Spring | Showing Up to Dance - Bald Head and All by Julia D. Tabisz | The Sacred, Messy In-Between by Faryn Wolff
LIVING WELL, Aug / Sept 2025 (Vol 10, No. 4)
We asked our writers what living well after a breast cancer diagnosis looks like for them. For some it’s finding joy in the small, everyday moments. For others it’s rebuilding confidence in their body or cultivating deeper relationships, new passions, or a sense of purpose. It's also about realizing quality of life matters, too. The stories in this issue are living proof that you can learn to live well after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Within this issue, you will find 21 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, Inflammatory and Lobular
- Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor MJ DeCoteau, founder of Rethink Breast Cancer
Cover Star Julia Girmenia
My Chemo Companion Was A Stand Mixer by Danielle Connor | The Life I Choose, Every Day by Vanessa Cuccurullo | An Unexpected Transformation by Susan DiGregorio | The Bright Angel Trail - One Trail, Two Hikers: A Collaboration with Cheri Henderson by Kelley Franks | Living Well Through Motherhood After Cancer by Carmela Giles | Thailand by Julia Girmenia | The Bright Angel Trail - One Trail, Two Hikers: A Collaboration with Kelley Franks by Cheri Henderson | The Diagnosis by Indira Layne | The Healing is in the Living by Gillian Lichota | A Love Letter to the Life I’m Building by Lisa Mannina | Ode to Ordinary by Kelsey McLaughlin | Sleeping Snakes and the Lake by Katie Murray | Hope Is A Cheeky Bastard by Roxanne O’Connell | Choosing Myself: A Love Letter to Living by Chance Osborne | Still Here by Lilly Ribner | A New Philosophy by Kate Rowbotham | I Met an Old Friend at the Gym Today by Keri Smith | Where Old Meets New by Robby Spring | Showing Up to Dance - Bald Head and All by Julia D. Tabisz | The Sacred, Messy In-Between by Faryn Wolff
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