Book: Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor

Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor. ⁠Inside Today's Young Breast Cancer Community, Vol 1, No 1, 200+ pages

Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor is a collection of essays from the first six years of Wildfire 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.

Contents:

Foreword by Marisa Acocella | Introductions by April Stearns & Emily Piercell | Love in the Time of Chemotherapy by Christina Zajicek | Living in the In Between by Amy Schnitzler | Hair By Rebecca Hall | Heat Lightning by Emily Helck | The Chocolate Chip Cookie That Broke the Camel's Back by Madison Hager | The Moments Between by Erin Stodola | Linda: My Hero, My Tamoxifen Tester by Tamira Andrews | We Release by Mackenzie Lives | Puberty in Purgatory at Thirty-One by Lauren Elise Oxenhandler | The Cancer Gene by Whitney O’Connor | Don’t Call Me a Survivor By Brooke Perry | Privilege by Christi Salcedo | A Fragile Invincibility by Kira Hodgson | Dear One by Meaghan Calcari Campbell | I Still Love You by Jessica Wajda | How a Foob Saved the Day by April Johnson Stearns | No. By Melanie Childers | My Life is a Movie by Jennifer Pogue | From Mom I Got Strength, Led Zeppelin and PALB2 by April Renn | Riding Shotgun by Ann Camden | Unbreakable Bonds: Lifelines for a Lifetime by Cathy Parker | SOS by Vesna Zic-Côté | After Death Leaves Its Calling Card by Julie Stonefelt | This is Cancer. by Meghan McCallum | A Eulogy to the Person I was Before by Saskia Lightstar | My Jiminy Cricket by Stefanie LeJeunesse | Lice Doesn’t Care if You Have Cancer by Melanie Masterson | Permanent by Stephanie Kinkel | The Lemonade Date by Danielle Thurston | There Can be Joy by Meghan Nathanson | Each Body Part Has a Story to Tell by Shelley Moreno | #GucciTrackSuit by Margaret Loniewska | Just Hold Me by AnnMarie Giannino | The Day My Nipple Fell Off by Laurie Hessen Pomeranz | Love. At Last. By Leslie Martin | Dynamite for the Dinner Table by Denise Archer | A Guest Room for MBC by Erin Weiss