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Love Letters to Our Bodies

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The Love Letters to Our Bodies Project

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Making a Difference in the Lives of Others

2025 Dynamic Sisters Spotlight
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Zainab Sow, Founder
Melanin Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc.

The Dynamic Sister Spotlight focuses on women who are using their cancer journeys and experiences to help others.  Zainab S. Sow is a survivor, author, founder of Melanin Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc., certified Know Your Lemons Global Advocate, and co-host of a podcast called The Resilience Of Black Women Confronting Breast Cancer on YouTube. She resides in Georgia, but is an avid traveler which allows her to explore the world through different mediums. Her wanderlust has taken her to some exotic places but her favorite destinations are in West Africa where she also advocates for breast cancer.  Having written three books, her first book ‘Heir To Breast Cancer’ released in April of 2024, with two children’s books ‘Hugs and Hope’ and ‘Balloons To Heaven’ set to debut in 2025. Through her books and advocacy, Zainab’s granted mission is to empower women and raise awareness on the disease that has touched three generations in her family. When this advocate is not working, she enjoys spending private time with her family and being pampered at the spa.

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How You Can Help

Supporting the Love Letters Project 

The Love Letters to Our Bodies project offers a powerful space for healing and community. By becoming a supporter or ally, you can help amplify voices that need to be heard and create meaningful connections for women navigating cancer journeys. Your involvement—whether through financial contribution, volunteering, or simply spreading awareness—directly impacts the workshops' ability to reach those who need them most.

 

We especially encourage you to share information about these transformative workshops with cancer-related organizations, Black women's groups, and health-focused communities. This simple act of connection can create ripples of healing for countless women seeking validation, understanding, and a safe space to explore their relationship with their bodies during challenging times. Your advocacy helps ensure these vital conversations continue to grow and flourish where they're needed most.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Project Highlights

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Cancer Resource Guide

Why Women of Color Living with Cancer 

According to the American Cancer Society, the incidence of cancer (those who are diagnosed with the disease) in the United States is highest in African Americans. About 224,080 new cancer cases and 73,680 cancer deaths were expected to occur among Black people in 2022. Also, cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic people, accounting for 20% of deaths. People of color have poorer health outcomes with cancer. For instance, statistics from the National Cancer Institute’s “Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program” reveal that: •Blacks/African Americans have higher death rates than all other racial/ethnic groups for many cancer types. •Despite having similar rates of breast cancer, Black/African American women are more likely than White women to die of the disease. •Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American women have higher rates of cervical cancer than women of other racial/ethnic groups, with Black/African American women having the highest rates of death from the disease. The incidence of cancer (those who are diagnosed with the disease) in the United States is highest in African Americans. We each can make a contribution to improving these statistics from understanding contributing factors, helping loved ones navigate their fears, trauma and suffering, providing comfort, researching and sharing helpful information, encouraging lifestyle changes and early medical care or participation in clinical trials. We all have extensive connections with African American women through personal networks. Someone’s mother, sister, aunt, daughter, wife, lover, or friend has cancer. Reach out through your personal networks to reach as many women as possible.

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Black women who are journeying with cancer meet in workshops where they share their experiences, explore themes related to how they experience their bodies, stories they tell themselves, how that has changed since their diagnosis, and how they engage in self-care. 

Workshop participants meditate, contemplate the mind/body/spirit connection, journal, and write Love Letters to their bodies.  The workshop is offered in an energetic field created and supported by energy workers. 

Complementary therapies are offered as a part of integrative medicine to restore balance, promote relaxation, as well as reduce stress and anxiety.

During contemplation, sacred energy is shared to quiet the mind and open the heart. 

The sharing is courageous, raw and powerful, women leave reaffirming their commitment to self-acceptance and self-love.  The Love Letters are assembled into a booklet to share with loved ones.

Presented in Collaboration with 

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