Californian Dana Roske is a part-time winery wench, single mother to two girls, and an aspiring writer. She was diagnosed at 34 with not only breast cancer, but also a rare sarcoma called a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST).  Today, Dana reads her piece “Remember Who The F! You Are” from Wildfire Magazine’s 2022 “Identity & Aftermath” issue. Her essay is all about navigating sex and intimacy with a changed body after cancer. April and Dana will talk about what it was like for Dana to write an intimate story about sex after cancer and divorce, living in her skin again and feeling at home in her body while being an example to her daughters, and bad-bitch-hot-girl energy.  They will also discuss Dana’s experience writing in a Wildfire group workshop setting.  This episode contains explicit language and sexual content.

More about Dana: https://www.instagram.com/ariela.and.june/

More about this episode’s sponsor, “Life Reconstructed” author Kim Harms: https://kimharms.net

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If you enjoyed this episode of The Burn, you might also like “Dating After a Mastectomy” with Juni Bucher:

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/2f68419c-85ec-4ce0-8a11-3d9b903f431a

Buy the Wildfire book “Igniting the Fire Within: Stories of Healing, Hope & Humor, Inside Today’s Young Breast Cancer Community”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJVJ629F?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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