From Wildfire Magazine, Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor is a collection of essays from the first six years of the magazine. Organized by age at diagnosis -- breast cancer arriving in their 20s, 30s, and 40s -- these stories will make you laugh, cry, and feel like you’re sitting with a best friend, hearing every aspect of how cancer has impacted their lives, for better or worse. Whether you have been diagnosed with breast cancer yourself, are a caregiver to someone else, or just want to read stories about having hope on the darkest days, this is the book for you. Inside are 50 under 50: fifty unique stories from people diagnosed under 50 years old, providing a view inside today's unique young breast cancer community. We believe in stories of transformation to heal ourselves and others in the face of cancer, and that's what these personal essays each bring to this book. Each writer gets vulnerable and really shows how to take a difficult circumstance and live with it -- not just survive. “These essays — raging, howling, and celebrating small victories — reflect the varied and vivid emotions that explode when youth and cancer collide. For those under 50 (but really for anyone) who has been told “you have breast cancer,” the voices in this essay collection will feel hauntingly familiar. To every young person diagnosed with cancer who feels alone and unseen, this book is for you.” - Catherine Guthrie, award-winning health journalist and author of the memoir FLAT: Reclaiming My Body From Breast Cancer WILDFIRE is a magazine, podcast and writing community specifically designed with the young breast cancer survivor and fighter in mind. Our storytellers are all diagnosed under the age of 50 - a growing population decades younger than the average breast cancer fighter with few age-appropriate resources available. Our belief is that experiencing the stories of others diagnosed young provides a much needed community and support network for today's young breast cancer survivor (from Stage 0 to Stage IV). We go further than that, though, and help you learn to tell your own story to the survivors coming up behind you. This has the dramatic effect of turning a traumatic cancer experience into an empowering one! Learn more at wildfirecommunity.org.
ASIN: B0BJVJ629F
VSKU: PKV.B0BJVJ629F.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Stearns, April|Piercell, Emily|Acocella, Marisa
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!