Connecting Disability to … Living with cancer in community

Welcome to 2022! We’re starting this year with a story of living with hope and resilience in the face of ongoing health challenges. Clare Li has lived with various autoimmune diseases for most of her life. But it wasn’t until the Vancouver native moved to Montreal that she intently started studying her disabilities – and shortly after she made some hard decisions to increase her independence, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In this conversation, Clare talks about her journey of accepting what happens when an invisible disability becomes visible, and what her cancer diagnosis hasn’t changed. I hope this episode encourages you, whether you’re living with a long-term illness, or know someone who is. Resources Clare finds helpful: Wildfire Breast Cancer Magazine – for women “too young” for breast cancer: www.wildfirecommunity.org Rethink Breast Cancer: https://rethinkbreastcancer.com Personalink – helping connect breast cancer survivors who’ve had mastectomies with tattoo artists: https://www.instagram.com/personal.ink/?utm_medium=copy_link Clare would like to thank UNI Training Montreal for their help and support: https://unitraining.ca/ For various reasons, Meagan often looks for good writing about living with cancer. She is especially grateful for Kate Bowler's work on this topic. You can check out Kate's work at: https://katebowler.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.