To say Dr. Sean Fitzpatrick helped The Rose navigate the pandemic would be an understatement.

As the Executive Director of The Jung Center, he’s not only given our community hope in the darkest of times, but he’s also done so for countless others in the Houston area.

During this conversation, Dorothy and Dr. Fitzpatrick talk about the past four years and how they’ve impacted the breast cancer community. He’ll talk about the need for caregivers to embrace self-care and encourages breast cancer patients to engage in self-acceptance.

But back to self-care.

We get a brief history lesson when Dr. Fitzpatrick discusses Audre Lorde. He said, “She was faced with this decision early 80s. She was a black woman, single mother, uninsured, trying to make the difficult decision of whether she was going to just live out what life she had left serving her values, which really was serving the needs of black women, or if she was going to take the step back to seek treatment.”

Learn more about Sean’s work and The Jung Center at www.junghouston.com.

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