Body 2.0
eBook - ePub

Body 2.0

Finding My Edge Through Loss and Mastectomy

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Body 2.0

Finding My Edge Through Loss and Mastectomy

About this book

To honor her mother's deathbed advice to head off breast cancer to “be there” for her boys, Krista Hammerbacher Haapala chose to trade healthy breasts for longevity and peace of mind. In Body 2.0, Haapala chronicles the personal research, medical process, bodily changes, and the emotional toll involved in the more than two-year odyssey of what she referred to as her “Body 2.0 vision quest.” Through it all, Haapala shares her insights for living awake during even the darkest times, and captures the raw ebbs and flows she and her family experience in the face of her wrenching decision. She takes on body image, the sexualization of breast cancer, motherhood, and maternal relationships, as well as how to sustain an intimate, loving partnership. An unflinching, irreverent take on preventative double mastectomy, Body 2.0 is a guide to reframing adversity, finding inspiration, and shaping your own life.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781631521324
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. May 31, 2013
  8. It’s Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot
  9. Preventive Mastectomy Is the New Black. Or: Yes, Angelina Did It First.
  10. Be and Share and Live
  11. Here’s Where I Want You to Put That Pink Ribbon …
  12. Walking in Mom’s Shoes
  13. Exposed: Weathering the Emotional Storm
  14. Mastectomy, DIEP Flaps, and Doughnuts, Oh My!
  15. The Privilege of Breast Cancer’s Toll
  16. Revolution Every Day: Resisting the Urge to Retreat
  17. Up Is Not Up on Tuesday Night
  18. Body 2.0: Living Embodied or Bust
  19. Whac-A-Mole and Wendy Davis: My Style of Coping with Grief
  20. Using Fear Gladiator-Style: Why Melissa Etheridge Is Wrong About Preventive Mastectomy
  21. Stalled While Moving at Full Speed
  22. Grief and Bras: Making It Awkward at Victoria’s Secret
  23. Preventive Mastectomy Procrastination or Not: Manipulating the Fourth Dimension
  24. Edge of a Deep, Dark Night: The Pain Is Worth It
  25. Mother-Daughter Relationship Baggage: Accepting Connection Across a Canyon
  26. Owning My Wisdom: Mental Fencing with My Friend Doubt
  27. Happy and Sad: The Paradox of Simultaneity
  28. False Sense of Control: What to Do When Life Happens to You
  29. The Logic of Wonder Woman: When Too Much Is Too Much
  30. CrossFit Benchmark Barbara: Because We Can Together
  31. Durability, Attention to Detail, and Knowing What Doesn’t Matter
  32. Friday the Thirteenth and Row Thirteen: Scar Talk, Nipple Measuring, and Preventive Double Mastectomy
  33. Strong and Tenacious: and Then There Were Three
  34. My Breasts Could Rule the World, and Other Newly Discovered Premastectomy Truths
  35. Preauthorized to Handle My Control Issues: Even Amazons Needed Help
  36. A Valediction of Separateness: Namaste and Useful Narcissism
  37. October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Redefining the Pink Ribbon and Banishing My Poor Me
  38. Public Service Announcement: Be Advised Regarding My Decision to Stay Sexy
  39. Pressing Flowers in the Crucible: The Heat Is Rising as the Double Mastectomy Approaches
  40. Premastectomy Label Drama: Previvors, Butterflies, and Warriors
  41. Mastectomy Preparation Request: Take Care of My Ironman
  42. Anticipating Transformation: Increased Gravity and Quiet Car Rides
  43. I’m Ready Now. Hold My Hand; Let’s Face Your Fear.
  44. Most Epic Hack: Double Mastectomy as Vision Quest
  45. Double Mastectomy/DIEP Flap School: Body 2.0 101 and Infinite Potential
  46. A Glancing Blow: Nonrescheduling the Rescheduled Rescheduling
  47. Gratitude and Celebrating the Now: Premastectomy Reflections
  48. T-minus Five Days: Life Moves Pretty Fast
  49. Mastectomies and Canada Geese: The Ever-Present Sacredness of Motherhood
  50. Body 2.0: Mission Confirmed
  51. Four Hours to Go Time: Using Many Four-Letter Words
  52. My Love Is Perfection: Honoring Process and the Ability to Surrender
  53. Body 2.0 Has Arrived: My Story of Mastectomy and DIEP Flap Reconstruction So Far
  54. Body 2.0 Vision Quest: Perseverance + Patience + Trust = Healing
  55. My Lived-It List
  56. Journeys and Eclipses: Reframing Flavors of Pain
  57. Suck It Up: The Truth About Flat Bellies and Perky Breasts
  58. Mastectomy-Aftermath Messages: My Soapbox and the World’s Smallest Violin
  59. Day Forty-Seven Postmastectomy: Maximize You … Boom!
  60. Nipples Optional: A Mastectomy Mama Rocks the Swagger
  61. Bye, Ms. Body 1.0: Change Is a Gift
  62. A New Way to Limbo: Patience, Acceptance, and Pot Holders
  63. Uncensored: Scars, Bikinis, and My People
  64. Synchronicity Rocks: Nipple Installation Will Happen in Due Time
  65. Feeling the Heat: Time to Make Truth Happen
  66. Premeditated in an Instant: Killing Expectation and Judgment
  67. Amputating Expectations: Truthtelling into Connection
  68. Emotionally Naked: Acceptance or Bust
  69. Feeling Lighter: Meditation or a Little Less Rib
  70. Fuzzy Wordmath: “Exciting” + “Daunting” = “Exhilarating”
  71. Body 2.0: Break On Through to the Other Side
  72. Both Bruised and Not Bruised: The Longer Now
  73. Compassion: Love Yourself Enough to Open Every Door
  74. Party for Progress: Celebrating in Spite of Myself
  75. Transformation of the Vision Quest: Relentless Flow and Undeniable Truthtelling
  76. Truthtell and Live Awake: Judgment Is Never a Warrior’s Distraction
  77. Live Awake: The Dude Abides, and So Does Your Joy
  78. Another Pop-Culture Interlude: “You Must Chill!”
  79. Conquer: An Open Letter to Skeptics After a Day in the Living Balance Office
  80. Switching Sides of the Bed: Adventures in Rule Breaking
  81. Vision Quest Truth: How to Dance with Storms and Rainbows
  82. Gut It Out: Longer Odds, Bigger Win
  83. Love Your Body: They Are Not Real, and They Are Spectacular
  84. Exceptional Gifts: Choosing to Live On Through Organ Donation
  85. Channeling Invincibility: The Moxie of the Vision Quest
  86. Don’t Call It a Comeback
  87. Reaching Escape Velocity: Being Brave Enough for “Instead”
  88. Going for It All: Code Breaking and Discovering New Worlds
  89. Love Your Life: It’s Not Easy to Embrace the Easeful Beauty
  90. The Freedom of Adaptability: Change Is My Bitch
  91. Enrich Our World: Choose Vulnerability
  92. Living on Purpose: The Call to Expand or Delete
  93. Love Always Wins: Start with the Heretical Act of Self-Love
  94. Female Abundance: Sister, I’ll Hold Your Hand
  95. Leaving the Door Ajar: Kicking Ass Through the Unknown
  96. Acknowledgments
  97. About the Author

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