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Week 2 of 23 Days of Awareness Complete!

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Cancer Baddies
October 10, 2025

23 Days of Awareness — Week 2 ✅ !

We just finished week 2 of our 23 Days of Awareness series on our Instagram. Have you checked in yet?

We’re sharing educational content, tips, community stories and early detection tools to help save more lives. Make sure to follow, like and share our content so we can continue to grow 💚

This Wednesday, we had Doctors Ashley Henneghan and Kathleen Van Dyk lead an event on cognitive impairment within advanced breast cancer patients. They are working to improve education for doctors and treatment options for patients.

They brought up the concept of being mentally spent vs physically spent and I’ve never related more to something. When dealing with “chemo brain” or fatigue from treatment, everything feels challenging:

Trying to remember why you walked into a room, finding that word that was just on the tip of your tongue, activities taking 10x longer than they used to, the mental gymnastics it takes to show up to work, etc. etc.

Life during and after cancer is hard. And each day you pray and wonder when it will get easier. Some days feel harder than others, and the easy days don’t come around very often, but one thing I know is that you have to keep holding out hope that things WILL get better. Because what is the other option? Giving up?

Find the glimmers in life that keep you alive. The people, places and things that light you up. Say no to things that exhaust you and do more of the soul-filling-inner-child-healing kinda to-dos.

Because at the end of the day, that’s what life is about anyways, right?

Studio Queen Hair Transformation Giveaway

Studio Queen Hair is doing another hair transformation giveaway to someone who has overcome cancer. This is for anyone who is interested in hair extensions or restorative hair treatments. Last month they treated our Cancer Baddie, Catherine, to an amazing hair treatment! Fill out the google form below to be considered 💇🏻‍♀️

(!!!) Intern Wanted (!!!)

We would love to add an intern to our team! Someone who is looking for college credit or experience in business, marketing and socials. Work directly with our founder to help with business outreach, social media planning, grant writing, event planning and more. If you are interested or know anyone, please email us below 💌

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Through the Speak Truth to Power: Stand Up, Speak Up Training, Komen's Center for Public Policy will convene health advocate and leaders to learn about the role of state-based public policy and advocacy in reducing breast cancer disparities in the black community and the importance of engaging in these efforts in California.

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