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When cancer complicates body image and parenting

Parenting with Cancer

Judy Schwartz HaleyTagged Best of CoffeeJitters, body image, cancer, courage, emotional skills, not just surviving but thriving, parenting, parenting with cancer, raising strong girls, survivors raising children, your kids emotional needs

Body image is a critical issue when raising young girls. When mom’s body image is complicated by cancer, things get interesting.

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Pondering the Reconstruction Era

Cancer

Judy Schwartz HaleyTagged body image, breasts, cancer, hope, not just surviving but thriving, reconstruction

I started the morning posing for topless photos in the harsh clinical light of the plastic surgeon’s office. I hadn’t given much thought to what the ambiance might be like should I ever pose topless, but doctors in lab coats with a changing curtain for a backdrop never crossed my mind. If you told me […]

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I feel pretty

Family

Judy Schwartz HaleyTagged beauty, body image, confidence, gem, life lessons

I didn’t feel pretty while I was growing up. I’m not making this statement as a complaint, simply stating a fact: I didn’t feel pretty. I wasn’t quite a tomboy either, as I was much too clumsy to shoulder that label. I was smart, but smart didn’t make me any points at the christian school […]