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What happens when your body changes in ways you never chose? When survival asks something of you—and afterward, you’re left to meet yourself all over again? Shannon Donohoe-Simpson knows that terrain. A TEDx speaker, storyteller and self-proclaimed joy bringer, Shannon has lived through breast cancer, a double mastectomy and the difficult years that followed. In a deeply personal act of reclamation, she invited an artist to paint her chest while women she loved gathered around her. On this episode of Skin & Soul: Beyond the Pale, Shannon and I open a conversation about loss, womanhood, the courage to be seen and what it means to find beauty in a body with a story. We’ll also explore joy—not as a demand to be positive, but as something we can make room for alongside the hard, unfinished parts of being human. What does it take to let ourselves feel alive again? And can we allow joy in without abandoning our grief? Join us for a conversation about courage, connection and coming home to ourselves.
