This week, we put the full Six Fundamentals of Active Healing in one place. I share how this framework came from years of watching women navigate the gap in survivorship care, and what I built to help fill it. If you want to go deeper, I am also opening a free waitlist for the Six Fundamentals workshop this fall.

This is the last email in the Six Fundamentals of Active Healing series, and it is about the one thing that holds the others together: community. Not the forced-circle kind. The real kind. The kind where you are seen as a person first, not a patient. If support groups have never felt like your thing, this one is for you. (Plus: what to do instead, and how to find your people.)

When a networking contact shouted "Where is your pink ribbon?!" across a crowded room, I learned something loud and clear about who gets to tell my story. This week we explore Identity as the fifth fundamental of active healing: what it looks like to reclaim your own narrative when the world insists on wrapping you in pink, and how the As You Are Now program creates space for that inner work without the usual pink-ribbon script.

We're taught that knowledge is power, but no one hands you much of it after a breast cancer diagnosis. In the second letter of my Six Fundamentals of Active Healing series, I share the exam-room moment that showed me how early the survivorship gap really starts, and why Context and Education is what stops every ache and twinge from spiraling into fear. Because when you understand what's happening in your body, a sensation stops being a threat and becomes information.

This week's letter went out on a Tuesday, and that's the whole point. In the first of my Six Fundamentals of Active Healing series, I get honest about the difference between passive recovery and active healing, and why time and space are the place everything else begins.