Stories of Radiant Women

A Note from Kristen to the Brilliantly Community

Nayyirah Waheed writes: the wounds have changed me I am soft with scars my skin breathes and beats stars If the scars peppering my body...

How to Begin Tackling Medical Debt

We’ve been listening. We hear you. Having any kind of experience with breast cancer is expensive. To help answer some commonly asked...

Feeling Whole Again - Nipple Reconstruction and Areola Tattooing

Of the many things that need healing after breast cancer or mastectomy, our relationship with our body is perhaps the most important....

Navigating Motherhood with BRCA

Communicating with our children and families about genetic cancer risk is difficult. Shannon Pulaski is a thoughtful advocate and author...

Before Genetic Testing, Take Time to Plan

A Blog for Proactive Genes, Written by Kristen Carbone In 2003, when my mother, Lisa, and I first talked about getting genetic testing,...

Event Recap. An Honest Conversation. Taking Control of Your Sexual Wellness.

On one of the hottest days in July, a group of women gathered at Unbound in New York to talk about sexual wellness after breast cancer or...

Healing by Helping Others Heal

I was at a wonderful point in my life when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was in love with a man I planned to marry as well as his...

On Privacy and Personal Paths to Healing

Each of us experiences cancer differently. We had an anonymous chat with a two-year breast cancer survivor, who offers the ups and downs...

Learning to “Swerve” with Wildfire Magazine Founder/Editor-in-Chief April Johnson Stearns

April Johnson Stearns. Founder, Editor in Chief, WILDFIRE Magazine. Diagnosed at 35 with Stage 3b IDC, HER2+. April grew up on a 43-acre...

What I Learned As My Mother’s Caretaker

Kristen Carbone’s relationship with breast cancer runs deep – her mother passed away from metastatic disease in 2005, and then at the age...

Three Steps to Rebuilding Relationships and Regaining Strength—Physically and Emotionally

Stephanie was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2017at the age of 35. Despite no known family history of breast cancer, she tested...

Dating, Fear, and Long-Term Relationships

It’s been five years since my preventative double mastectomy and subsequent reconstruction surgeries, and I’m only just beginning to feel...

How Being BRCA Positive Transformed My Life

Anjali (Angie) Karamchandani has a background in the hospitality industry. She has led service organizations at several multinational...

Mothering Through the New Normal

Looking back, the early years of being a mother felt like one long foggy day that engulfed me in a cloud of love, exhaustion, and grief....

Narratives of Sex After Mastectomy: Woman Lab

MY STORY: Watching my mother die after a long struggle with invasive metastatic breast cancer, my own healthy future weighed heavily on...

The Exponential Power of Feeling Comfortable

Changewear: Please tell us about why you created Brilliantly. Kristen Carbone: The seeds for this business were sown, much like many of...

Always Cold: Woman Lab

Even on the warmest summer days I feel like I’m carrying around an ice pack on my chest. With implant reconstruction after mastectomy,...

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