HeyJaredFinding My Bearings Now
Expressive Writing to make sense of it all - childhood trauma to breast cancer.
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The day after my breast cancer diagnosis, I started writing a public diary here on substack. I’d left facebook for a time, but I needed to be heard—if only by a few strangers. It was an unexpectedly lonely time. It has been nearly three years since I was in the clutches of the red devil: bald, weepy, and frightened. But last week island hopping off La Rochelle with a friend, I unselfconsciously wore my bathing suit sans prosthetic. I closed my eyes with my face turned toward the sun and told mys
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