Reconstructing Hope: Intrusions, Oxymorons & Transformations in the Breast Cancer Marathon Author|Julie Dunstan-Brewer Home with her cat sister

Home with her cat sister

She learns that knowing what she wants and believing in herself are the cornerstones to joy

Yet each of us has at least some of the answers and by revealing our ideas and experiences we are able to enrich others

“Every person has the desire to enjoy a ‘good’ life

Reconstructing Hope: Intrusions, Oxymorons & Transformations in the Breast Cancer Marathon Author|Julie Dunstan-Brewer Home with her cat sisterA breast cancer diagnosis is a most unwelcome intruder in life, one that signals a long marathon of tests, treatments, and emotional stress ahead. With that journey come moments of conflicting anger and triumph, confusion and clarityand it leaves survivors so transformed, they might not even recognize themselves afterward. In Reconstructing Hope, two time survivor Donna Sidwell DeGracia offers support for people living out any phase of their breast