“If we can face life challenges feeling good about ourselves, we can often meet those challenges with more clarity, more determination, and more understanding. At no time is such love of self more important than when fighting cancer. Yet many women find their love of self becomes compromised by the emotions stirred when they find a bald, sick-looking person staring back at them in them mirror.”
The above is an excerpt of an article I wrote titled “Loving Our Bald Selves” that appears in Coping with Cancer magazine that is currently posted on Coping With Cancer’s website homepage. I am so grateful for the opportunity to share my message about the potential emotional upheaval experienced by women with medical hair loss and about the need for greater awareness and understanding of those emotions in the context of cancer treatment and support. I hope you will read the entire article, available at Coping Magazine’s web site, just below Meridith Baxter’s photo and her story about being a breast cancer survivor.
Susan Beausang, Founder and President 4Women.com
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Thanks for your comments - you made my day1
February 4, 2010 - 2:02pmThis Comment
Susan,
Your story is amazing and your spirit is uplifting. I have to say that I can tell you truly live by the words you speak. Your optimism radiates from your picture, it's almost unbelievable. I don't have to tell you what a beautiful woman you are, inside and out-- and you make that beaubeau head scarf look great :)
February 4, 2010 - 1:58pmThis Comment