Digital Issue: IDENTITY & AFTERMATH

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The IDENTITY & AFTERMATH Issue, Dec 2022 / Jan 2023, Vol 8, No 6, 93 pages

We’ve all been there: thinking that after we get past the diagnosis stage or maybe the treatment stage, life will finally go “back to normal.” But does it? Is it realistic that this is expected of us? The truth is, many of us find that we are utterly different after a cancer diagnosis because it changes you. PTSD is real, for one. But so is chemo brain and feelings of self-consciousness about a changed body. Maybe cancer has made you more fearful in general. Or, perhaps, it’s given you a devil-may-care attitude — a new lease on life! Within this issue, you’ll read stories that are raw, real and ultimately hope-filled as each writer faces what feels right to them for moving forward after a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis.

Cover Star: Monica Brooks

Contents:

My Legacy Through Teaching by Monica Brooks | Thriving with Metastatic Breast Cancer by Tara Coyote | Surviving to Thriving After Breast Cancer by Anne Ferrier Crook | An Unlikely Ally by Sarah David | The Cringe a poem by Miriam Janove | Cosplaying As a Person Who Had Her Shit Together When Cancer Came Along by Becca Keleher | All the Ways to Heal by Lauren Lopriore | Two, One, None by Jessica Mills | AC (After Cancer) Me a poem by Meagan Miraldi | Ribbon and Bone by Stori Nagel | The Journey a poem by Aysia Rankin | Under the Pencil by Erica Robinson | “Lucky” a song by Larissa Rook | Remember Who the F*ck You Are by Dana Roske | Bridesmaid Energy by Anita Saesing | Dominion by Gretchen Stelter | Propeller Moments by Johanna Lynn Tran | Cultivating My Stories, Tending to My Throat by Lindsay Vieira | My Guru Cancer by Bethany Webb | I Am His Mother a poem by Robin Vande Werken | The Power of No by Chelsee Wilson

PLUS: Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Stearns

Cover photo by Erica Manning Photography