Every day, women reach out to me when I share the struggles of riding the emotional rollercoaster of a breast cancer diagnosis.

Funny enough, when I talk about the little things that would frustrate me the most (like people’s comments about how I should react to losing my breasts after surgery), I would get a flood of women saying, “OMG, Cindy!  Me too!”

The problem is we all were experiencing and sharing the same struggles but nobody was comfortable talking about it out loud.

Even worse there really wasn’t a path to recovery that was laid out for us to follow.  And this problem affects one out of every eight women!  It blew my mind that nobody was really stepping up to make a change!

You see, research shows that a breast cancer diagnosis leads to women feeling sad, distressed, desperate and powerless.  The research even lays out the emotions that women go through, feeling at first like they can deny the disease and believe that the surgery will resolve it all. Not to mention, the research also shows that in addition to having our vanity compromised, we also suffer from prejudices and discrimination!

Women diagnosed with breast cancer often face many new things ALL AT ONCE:

Fatigue, isolation, loss of identity, disconnection to femininity, invasive and painful procedures and treatments, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, social pressure and ambiguous recovery recommendations.

Because women are so resourceful, we often go online to find information and motivation that we need to recover, increase our self-esteem, energy and manage our diagnosis.  I noticed that much of the information that is available is simply treatment related and although practical, it doesn’t address all the little things that happen to you, that only people with the diagnosis can relate to and understand.

In an effort to help women get off the emotional rollercoaster and regain the control we had before our diagnosis, I wrote the Pink Mountain Book: How To Stay Positive Through Breast Cancer, From Diagnosis To Treatment & Beyond.  After it launched, it reached Best Seller status on Amazon (that day!) for Medical Biography AND Personal Transformation.  There I was ranking alongside none-other-than Dale Carnigie himself! 

I knew at that moment, I was on the right track!  It also became clear as women began to read it and reach out to me, sharing their stories and wishing they had the methods, exercises and tools in a workbook, that I needed to create this companion workbook!

And that’s when the Empower Your Climb Workbook was born!