How to find resilience after breast cancer with Donna Fraser OBE

How do you keep going when your world falls apart? Can you make a difference and turn a bad thing into a good thing? Is it possible to get your fitness back when treatment ends? To kick off Season 3 of So Now I’ve Got Breast Cancer, I’m speaking to a very special guest, the Olympian Donna Fraser OBE. She’s a quadruple Olympian sprinter who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 while she was still a professional athlete. She has since been awarded an OBE for her services to equality, inclusion and diversity in the workplace and is a proud ambassador for the charity Breast Cancer Now.
Here are the resources that Donna mentioned:
Breast Cancer Now breastcancerno...
Her Spirit App www.herspirit....
Donna’s website www.donnafraserofficial.com (www.donnafraser...)
If you’re a person of colour going through a breast cancer diagnosis, you may also find these support groups useful:
Black Women Rising - www.blackwomen...
South Asian supernovas - @southasiansupernovas ( / southasiansupernovas )
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My amazing podcast poet is Donna Ashworth and you heard a poem from her new book ‘Growing Brave (www.hive.co.uk...) ’ - available now in all online bookstores. You can find out more about Donna on her website (donnaashworth....) , or follow her on Instagram (www.instagram....) and Facebook (www.facebook.c...)
Season Three was kindly sponsored by Breast Friends CIC - an organisation that truly understands the power of peer support for anyone on the breast cancer journey. Head over to www.breastfriends.co.uk (www.breastfrien...) to find out more. If you would like to sponsor Season Four, please get in touch at [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail]) .
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[@Melly4real]

hi @drliz i hope your feeling better today we are all in this together x

[@DrLizORiordan]

Thank you so much x x x

[@aliceobrien8390]

Liz, you are a woman who knows exactly how it is, brest cancer is a fact of life of millions of women and also happens to men,my first on was 2008 , hormone + hr 2, lots of treatment had mastectomy six red devel, six not ad strong and 17 herseption, 9 years of famara, this year early catch still had mastectomy, so flat , so no treatment, it's a life you have to get used to I'm glad you are here for other wemon

[@bkrystal1]

Would you recommended continuing tamoxifen if you do not have side effects and do not have uterine cancer? Your thoughts are appreciated. Thank you.