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When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I felt overwhelmed. Not just by the diagnosis, but by how quickly everything moved afterward. Appointments. New words. Decisions that felt urgent. Conversations I didn’t yet know how to have. I remember wishing there was something steady I could hold onto. Something that didn’t tell me how to feel, but helped me figure out what to do next. That’s why I created the One in Eight Breast Cancer Toolkit.

What This Toolkit Is

This toolkit is a collection of...

During treatment, my brain didn’t work the way it normally does. I forgot questions I meant to ask. I lost track of details I would usually hold easily. Some days, thinking felt heavy.

Chemo brain is real. It’s not just forgetfulness. It’s mental fatigue layered on top of physical exhaustion, and pretending it wasn’t happening didn’t help me cope. Writing things down helped. Not in a poetic or inspirational way. In a practical one. I wrote questions before appointments because I couldn’t...

I’m putting the finishing touches on the companion journal to One in Eight: a guided space for anyone moving through breast cancer treatment or supporting someone who is. It’s full of prompts, checklists, planning pages, grounding exercises, and room to breathe on the hard days.

The journal is headed to final design now, and I’ll share the cover and release date as soon as it’s ready. If One in Eight has been helpful to you or someone you love, I think this journal will give you (or them) a...

I’ve been working for months to make this book available to anyone who needs it—patients, partners, coworkers, managers, neighbors, and the people who love someone with cancer but don’t know where to start. Behind the scenes, I’ve been finalizing distribution, thinking about podcasts, obsessing over small details, and yes… quietly panicking about the fact that my friends and readers will now see photos of me that are not my most flattering.

But that’s part of the point. Cancer isn’t...