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    Our mission is to empower women of color affected by breast cancer to make the rest of their lives the best of their lives through education, advocacy and community.

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Advocacy
Tova Parker

I Think I Lost My Voice

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.

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New Normal
Tova Parker

Taking Care of The Caretaker

The most challenging part of being a caretaker is being a neglectful caretaker of your own mental and physical being; if you are not emotionally capable yourself, you are incapable of fully taking care of someone else.

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Feature
Tova Parker

The sisters I didn’t know I needed

After just one day with these women, it felt as if a weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I was stripped of the armor I seemed to wear daily. The armor of the strong mother and daughter, the wife who was rediscovering her sexuality, the strong black woman at work .. even the model Breast Cancer thriver. Amongst that group of amazing women, I got to shed these layers, bare my soul, and eventually bare parts of my body that others often take to represent the extent of our journeys.

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New Normal
Tova Parker

I just kept going. Kept stepping. Kept climbing.

The calmness of the water reminds me everything will be ok. And the mountains remind me that while I’ve overcome a huge challenge in 2020, there are more challenges to come. Challenges that will grow me. Challenges that will make me stronger.

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Beauty
Tova Parker

To be or to Become

But what I’ve come to realize is that I was only interested in “being” Tova 2.0 and not “becoming” Tova 2.0.

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