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Surviving cancer ignites passion for helping others

Passion: feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction (source: Wikipedia)

Passion can be stirred by a number of different things:

• your beliefs
• your desires
• your dreams
• your experiences

This post is about three women that I’ve had the privilege to come to know since starting this blog. Women whose passion for helping others was ignited by their battle with breast cancer.

(photo courtesy of Andreia)

Cancer is ugly and terrifying – but it can be beaten. Modern medicine has proved that cancer can be beaten by driving the mortality rates of most cancers down. However, those same treatments are severe and take a huge toll on the body and mind.

These three cancer survivors have dedicated their lives to helping others. Here’s how:

Jane Ali and SurvivorCelebration.com

I met Jane at the House of Blues in the Madalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas during a mixer for the participants of the fall PGA expo, this past September (2007). Jane gave a short presentation detailing her then up-coming nation-wide bus tour to promote breast cancer awareness.

My business partner, Scott Kay, and I had been trying to become involved with breast cancer rehabilitation, but really didn’t how or where to start. Thankfully, Jane and her husband A.J. took the time to talk with us and provide us with some direction and suggestions. They also made us aware of their website, SurviviorCelebration.com and encouraged us to create our Pink Rotater.

Since then, A.J. has taken SurvivorCelebration.com and transformed in into an interactive social networking site that provides all the tools a person needs to:

• meet other cancer survivors and patients
• learn from others
• inspire
• be inspired

SurvivorCelebration.com is in its infancy and needs you. Take the time to visit and put up your own page and then tell your friends about it. There is no cost – here’s my page. If you’ve always wanted to get involved, but didn’t know how, then here’s your chance. SurvivorCelebration.com is not just about breast cancer, but about dealing with all forms of cancer. There are a multitude of groups for everyone – take a look and then join today.

Christine Clifford Beckwith and The Cancer Club

I met Christine vicariously through a book that she had co-authored with her husband Harry Beckwith entitled “You, Inc.” While reading this book, I learned of Christine’s battle with breast cancer and more importantly her passion to inspire others through her talent of using comedy to create cartoons that just force you to laugh.

Christine has created The Cancer Club to help cancer patients cope with their situation, inspire others and use laughter to help relieve the constant stress associated with cancer. This website is filled with hope, inspiration, gifts, encouragement, laughter and much more.

Christine provides a monthly newsletter that I subscribe to and encourage you to do so as well. I always learn something new and her cartoons always make me laugh.

(This is one of Christine’s hilarious cartoons.)

Carol Cauthen and Touching You

I had the pleasure of meeting Carol when she read an article about the Rotater in the Birmingham News and contacted me via email. Since then, she has begun to carry the Rotater in her breast cancer boutique on a consignment basis.

Carol is a 21–year survivor of breast cancer. Her passion led to the creation of first her boutique, Touching You and then her website, TouchingYou.com. Touching You is dedicated to the breast cancer survivor and offers a huge variety of products that have been created to deal with their special needs.

Everyone who works for Carol is a breast cancer survivor and therefore knows how to help.

Passion not taken lightly

Many people use the word “passion” carelessly. When you are passionate about something, then you DO something – not discuss it. These three women have used their battle with cancer to become passionate about helping others who face cancer.

What are you that passionate about?

Tags: the+Pink+Rotater, Survivor+Celebration, The+Cancer+Club, Toughing+You, cancer, breast+cancer

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