I Think I Lost My Voice
Tova Parker
January 17, 2023
A blog can be therapeutic in its own right. While I expressed my feelings through the written word, now I can use my spoken word in my journey forward.
“Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.” — Morgan Harper Nichols
A blog can be therapeutic in its own right. While I expressed my feelings through the written word, now I can use my spoken word in my journey forward.
Six women, six bad ass businesses created by women of color after experiencing the inequities of the health care system.
I don’t want to be strong every day of my life and guess what it’s ok to not be. I have a village that picks up the days I am feeling weak and just don’t want to be strong anymore.
Having a safe space to share the good, bad, and ugly about my cancer journey, without judgment, meant the world to me.
On a quest to find 100 Black women survivors of this rare and aggressive form of breast cancer.
When you leave this world, what will your life be remembered for? What kind of mark will you leave on this world?
I believe that there has to be an energetic change at a fundamental level or our bodies will find their way back to the same loop that created the cancer to begin with.
How could someone ever look at me and find beauty when I could not find it inside or outside myself?
After I had my bilateral mastectomy in 2017, I decided on immediate DIEP flap reconstruction. During the process of explaining to me some intricacies of the surgery, my plastic surgeon mentioned that my nipples would always be at attention – um, excuse me?
My decision to start on antidepressants was difficult, but it changed ME for the better. I saw it as part of my cancer treatment, and not something to shun, disbelieve, or be afraid of.
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