Women's History Month: Women as Leaders, Builders and Survivors

May we not focus on our differences, but focus on what we can do to offer a hand to any other woman and person in need.

BY Tamera Anderson-Hanna

PUBLISHED March 21, 2018

Tamera Anderson-Hanna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Addiction Professional, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and became a Registered Yoga Teacher while coping with breast cancer in 2015. She owns Wellness, Therapy, & Yoga in Florida where she provides personal wellness services and coaching and she is a public speaker on wellness-related topics. You can connect with her at www.wellnesstherapyyoga.com.

March is Women's History Month, when we are encouraged to embrace other women and the accomplishments we have made. Advancements stretch much further than being able to own a bank account in our own name. Women now vote and run for office, and we seek educations and have the ability to provide for ourselves. It is a good time to remember our voice in terms of treatment and advancement for conditions like breast and ovarian cancer, as we are the builders, leaders and survivors for the path of women experiencing cancer.

I am personally grateful to women who have been advocates and survivors prior to my being diagnosed with breast cancer. Without the voice of earlier survivors, I might not be here doing as well as I am today. There are women before us who were diagnosed with cancer and who advocated and raised a voice to ensure that women get mammograms are that reconstruction is a covered medical benefit. I am personally grateful for these services, as I was diagnosed when going in for my annual mammogram

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