Writing & Healing Contest Winners
By Pamela Post-Ferrante on November 4th, 2015 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyWhen asked if I could help create a writing contest with winners, I thought to myself that each writing and submission would already be a winner in the important ways.
They were all a pleasure to read, offering many feelings through interesting objects. There was joy and grief and humor as well as a great deal of resiliency.
The three winners all told their story …
Book Giveaway Contest: Writing About Feelings Through Story
By Pamela Post-Ferrante on September 23rd, 2015 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyEditor’s note: Breastcancer.org is hosting a writing contest! Author and four-time breast cancer survivor Pamela Post-Ferrante is generously giving away three copies of her book Writing & Healing: A Mindful Guide for Cancer Survivors to three contest participants. No writing experience is necessary to enter. Pamela will review all submissions; winners will be announced in November.
Simply complete the writing exercise below, and send your …
An Interview With Poet and Survivor Amy Small-McKinney
By Amy Small-McKinney on April 22nd, 2015 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyIt’s National Poetry Month, and we’re pleased to bring you an interview with poet Amy Small-McKinney. Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. In celebration of National Poetry Month, Amy will be reading at the KGB Bar in New York City at 7 p.m. on April 29.
At what point did you first know you wanted to write poetry?
Well, I started writing in …
Prompting the Healing Power of Writing
By Pamela Post-Ferrante on June 25th, 2014 Categories: Day-to-Day MattersWriting & Healing: A Mindful Guide for Cancer Survivors uses a “prompt” to literally prompt the writing. It could be an object from a basket, as seen in the picture above, with the suggestion to then write as if you were that object. “I am Helen, a heart, who has…..” or “ I am a bottle top and I live in…” etc. Providing a prompt …
Writing & Healing: Using Mindfulness and Creativity to Become Whole Again
By Pamela Post-Ferrante on April 16th, 2014 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyMy first diagnosis of breast cancer was a surprise. I was too young. There was no breast cancer in the family, but this rational defense didn’t stop what was to be: four diagnoses and eight surgeries and treatments from 1993-1998, dominating and changing my life.
I am two decades away from that first biopsy surgery. Looking back, and especially looking back through my writing, helps …
