Today on Feminine Roadmap you are going to meet Melissa Berry, founder of Cancer Fashionista, Triple Negative Breast Cancer Thriver and 2016 Winner of the Courage Award. Melissa shares her cancer journey with such authenticity and raw honesty bringing powerful truths to bear about what it is like to get then navigate a cancer diagnosis. As you listen to Melissa share you will be encouraged by her warrior spirit, her commitment to living life on her terms and creating a powerful community as a result of her experience. The Cancer Fashionista is not only a resource for women affected by breast cancer but it is a support system and a lifeline! Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a girlfriend and share in this amazing story that will encourage, uplift and empower you to face your own giants and overcome! http://www.feminineroadmap.com/episode079/
SHOW NOTES:
3:21 The journey begins: testing positive for the BRCA gene
13:26 Support systems and strategies
17:58 Triple Negative Breast Cancer and a trip to Punta Cana
25:03 Navigating identity without breasts and hair
36:08 Mother daughter bonding time- making the best of the worst
43:50 The beginning of the Cancer Fashionista community and finding beauty again
54:38 Final thoughts by Melissa
RESOURCES:
Cancerfashionista.com
Ana Ono Intimates by and for Breast Cancer Thrivers
One Tough Mother Podcast
IG: @cancerfashionista
Triple Negative Cancer Foundation
Music by bensound
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