Carrie Ann Kemp: Survivor of Mucinous Carcinoma of the Breast

Season One, Episode Four

​Carrie Ann teaches Maturation to elementary and middle school kids. Her passion is to help everyone love and accept their unique individual body and for Carrie Ann this starts with teaching our youth that puberty is not to be feared but to be embraced.

0:00:00 How the cancer was discovered
0:08:35 Port-a cath
0:15:28 Six weeks to live
0:22:00 Telling her children
0:30:10 A gift of awareness
0:35:15 Uterus, ovaries, cervix & breasts removed
0:42:35 Self-love
0:46:04 Navigating chemotherapy
0:51:47 Still alive at Christmas
0:57:35 Cancer-versary
1:07:15 Radiation
1:12:20 Masculinity
1:17:00 Cancer as a curriculum
1:33:45 Mentors
1:38:29 Living freely with cancer
1:49:50 The support of others
1:53:51 Dating after cancer
2:08:45 Funeral and wake considerations
2:14:15 Being the observer of our own thinking
2:19:39 Living in gratitude

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