Kristina Cowan
Author
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • email
  • rss
  • Home
  • About
  • My Book
  • Blog
  • Other Writing
    • Health (mental and physical)
    • Education
    • Business/Careers
    • Women’s Issues
    • Honors
  • Events
  • Press
    • Articles
    • Radio, Podcasts, and More
    • Photos
    • Press Kit
  • Contact
logo

Archive for the Breast cancer Category

Home → Breast cancer

Why I Said Yes to Cancer-Preventing Surgery

On August 25, 2015   /   Breast cancer, Motherhood   /   2 Comments

It’s late June, a golden-blue day wrapped in soft, honeyed rustles hinting at untold promises and glories of the summer at hand. My small children are gliding into a friend’s home, their goodbye kisses and laughter floating through tousles of hair. The sparkles fade to dust, swallowed

Read more →
Back to Top

Breast Cancer History, Please Don’t Repeat

On December 11, 2014   /   Breast cancer   /   2 Comments

I don’t have breast cancer. I’ve waited to hear those words for nearly six months, after a suspicious mammogram led to a host of other tests and procedures. Each round of results revealed more about what was causing the abnormalities. Ultimately I discovered that I have two

Read more →
Back to Top

Categories

  • Books ( 3 )
  • Breast cancer ( 2 )
  • Business ( 11 )
    • Careers ( 11 )
  • Chicago ( 1 )
  • Education ( 5 )
  • France ( 5 )
  • history ( 2 )
  • mental health ( 4 )
  • parenthood ( 2 )
  • Postpartum depression ( 8 )
  • Stories ( 1 )
  • Suicide ( 17 )
  • travel ( 3 )
  • Uncategorized ( 7 )
  • Women's Issues ( 81 )
    • Faith ( 30 )
    • Friendship ( 3 )
    • Grief ( 38 )
    • Identity ( 19 )
    • Marriage ( 5 )
    • Motherhood ( 49 )
    • Pregnancy ( 9 )
  • Writing ( 5 )

Tags

anxiety babies baby breast cancer breastfeeding cancer careers Chicago childbirth children Christianity death death of a parent depression dying faith family France God grief Jesus Christ loss mental health mental illness mom moms motherhood motherless motherless daughters mother loss mothers nursing parenthood parenting perinatal mood and anxiety disorders Philip Yancey postpartum depression pregnancy suicide tragedy trauma travel women work writing

Latest Posts

  • (Re)writing History
    My paternal grandmother was a young girl when she and...
    Read more →
  • An Uncle With Flare
    Today is my Uncle Dave’s birthday. He would be seventy-four....
    Read more →
  • On World Mental Health Day: A Nod to PMADs; Suicide Prevention
    Today is World Mental Health Day. Every October 10, the...
    Read more →
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • email
  • rss
Tweets by @kristinacowan
© 2017 - present kristinacowan.com | Sitemap | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS)
Back to Top