METAMORPHOSIS, Dec 2025 / Jan 2026 (Vol 10, No. 6)
Note: printing of this issue will occur December 20-29th with mailings beginning January 5th.
Metamorphosis is a powerful theme exploring the transformations - both subtle and seismic - that happen during and after a breast cancer diagnosis. We asked our writers to reflect on the ways their life, body, relationships, or sense of self have shifted, or perhaps remained surprisingly the same. This issue is full of hope while honoring the fear, uncertainty, and courage that often fuel or complicate the process of change.
Within this issue, you will find 21 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, Inflammatory and Lobular
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Lisa Orr, Brand Director of Elephants and Tea
Cover Star Lisa Orr by Anelise Paduch Tubinis Photography
Somebody I Used To Know by Anita Archer | Scars of Solace by Margie Day | Extremely Dense Breasts, Extremely Bad Timing by Lara Everly | The Bra Shop by Beth L. Gainer | Rubbish to Toss Away by Shannon Gottesman | As Long As I’m Still Moving by Sasha Granneman | Crazy Hats by Erin Guendelsberger | Passing Through the Forms by Anne Hamilton | Coming Home by Cheri Henderson | The Silent Type by Jill Aki Hrycyk | Proof I Was There by Adrienne Holland Hubbard | The Good Stuff by Bethaney Kaye | Tiny Things by Lorie Kolak | Leaning Into Death to Find Freedom by Reky Martha | My Red Awakening by Ellen Nadarajah | Guest Editor’s Note by Lisa Orr | Finding the Freedom I Was Taught to Fear by Erin Perkins | Darkness Was the Door, Cancer the Key by Lilly Ribner | Chemo, Chickens, and Change by Lauren Tarpley | Manifesting Metamorphosis by Sydney Rose Taylor | I Never Trained for This by Victoria Varvel
Dimensions:
110 full-color pages printed on premium paper, book size: 4.25” x 5.5”
Note: printing of this issue will occur December 20-29th with mailings beginning January 5th.
METAMORPHOSIS, Dec 2025 / Jan 2026 (Vol 10, No. 6)
Note: printing of this issue will occur December 20-29th with mailings beginning January 5th.
Metamorphosis is a powerful theme exploring the transformations - both subtle and seismic - that happen during and after a breast cancer diagnosis. We asked our writers to reflect on the ways their life, body, relationships, or sense of self have shifted, or perhaps remained surprisingly the same. This issue is full of hope while honoring the fear, uncertainty, and courage that often fuel or complicate the process of change.
Within this issue, you will find 21 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, Inflammatory and Lobular
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Lisa Orr, Brand Director of Elephants and Tea
Cover Star Lisa Orr by Anelise Paduch Tubinis Photography
Somebody I Used To Know by Anita Archer | Scars of Solace by Margie Day | Extremely Dense Breasts, Extremely Bad Timing by Lara Everly | The Bra Shop by Beth L. Gainer | Rubbish to Toss Away by Shannon Gottesman | As Long As I’m Still Moving by Sasha Granneman | Crazy Hats by Erin Guendelsberger | Passing Through the Forms by Anne Hamilton | Coming Home by Cheri Henderson | The Silent Type by Jill Aki Hrycyk | Proof I Was There by Adrienne Holland Hubbard | The Good Stuff by Bethaney Kaye | Tiny Things by Lorie Kolak | Leaning Into Death to Find Freedom by Reky Martha | My Red Awakening by Ellen Nadarajah | Guest Editor’s Note by Lisa Orr | Finding the Freedom I Was Taught to Fear by Erin Perkins | Darkness Was the Door, Cancer the Key by Lilly Ribner | Chemo, Chickens, and Change by Lauren Tarpley | Manifesting Metamorphosis by Sydney Rose Taylor | I Never Trained for This by Victoria Varvel
Dimensions:
110 full-color pages printed on premium paper, book size: 4.25” x 5.5”
Note: printing of this issue will occur December 20-29th with mailings beginning January 5th.
Big thanks to our Underwriters for their support of this issue! Ana Ono; Elephants and Tea; Elizabeth Hodges; iRise Above Foundation
