A Breast Cancer Journey: Living it One Step at a Time

A Breast Cancer Journey: Living It One Step at a Time

Jennifer A. Douglas

Your Essential Guide Through Breast Cancer

Navigate With Confidence and Support

A Breast Cancer Journey: Living It One Step at a Time is the ultimate companion for DCIS and early-stage breast cancer patients, offering guidance, comfort, and real-life insights.

“A Breast Cancer Journey: Living it One Step at a Time is a perfect book for a person who is newly diagnosed with breast cancer. It will become your ‘Best Friend’ as you navigate your new breast cancer diagnosis.”

-Dr. Deepa Halaharvi, Breast Cancer Surgeon and Survivor

Meet Jennifer Douglas

When I was diagnosed with DCIS, I quickly realized there was a significant gap in resources tailored for early-stage breast cancer patients like me. The journey was overwhelming, and I found myself searching for guidance and support that simply wasn’t available.

This realization inspired me to write A Breast Cancer Journey: Living It One Step at a Time. I wanted to create the resource I desperately needed—a comprehensive guide filled with real-life insights and practical advice to empower others through every step of their journey.

My book is designed to be your companion, offering the understanding and support that can make all the difference. It’s about navigating this path with confidence, knowing you’re not alone.

Does This Sound Like You?

Imagine If...

You had a book that provided just the right information, helping you understand your decisions with confidence and clarity.
You felt empowered and prepared as you headed into each step of your journey.
You had tools to help you navigate your emotional and mental well-being.
You knew how to read your imaging and pathology reports and felt prepared to ask the questions at your next appointment.
You finally had someone who understood that "Stage Zero Doesn't Mean Zero Challenges."

Discover

A Breast Cancer Journey: Living It One Step At A Time

Your Essential Guide to Navigating DCIS with Confidence

Inside The Book

Each chapter is dedicated to a part of the breast cancer journey, making it easy to find just the right information. The first half of the book deals with imaging through surgery, and the second half addresses recovery, post-surgical treatment choices, and what life looks like after active treatment.

My Journey

I thought I would have it “easy” since my cancer was caught at stage zero. I quickly learned that a stage zero breast cancer diagnosis doesn’t mean zero challenges.

Key Information

Included inside each chapter is vital information about procedures, terminology, and treatment options. You’ll be equipped to head into your appointments as an informed and educated patient.

Others' Journeys

Woven into each chapter are quotes from other breast cancer survivors, sharing how they walked through their breast cancer journeys. You’ll benefit from their encouragements every step along the way

Well - Being

I was surprised at how anxious and worried I was, right from the start. Taking care of our well-being is a process all throughout this journey. Each chapter has sections on emotional and mental well-being.

Where to Buy

Also Available as a Video Course!

I’m delighted to share that A Breast Cancer Journey is also available in video format through my Encourage: Breast Cancer and Beyond course and community. Encourage is your comprehensive support hub from diagnosis and beyond.

✨ It includes video lessons from my book, live support calls, and a private community.

Encourage is a one-time investment of just $147 for lifetime access!

Kind Words From Readers

Breast Cancer Survivors are Saying

Jennifer Douglas' book fills a void between a strictly clinical book about breast cancer and a strictly personal memoir of one survivor.

Reading it is like having a very well informed sister or close friend share every step of her journey, the emotional, practical and personal aspects, as well as valuable and understandable information about the medical side. Highly recommend to any woman diagnosed with or suspected to have breast cancer.

Highly informative and profoundly direct, Jennifer’s story is a genuine account of the dizzying journey of breast cancer. This book is one that each newly diagnosed person can benefit from is some way.

I wish I had this at the onset of my own breast cancer voyage!

Ms. Douglas’ book relates her personal account of her experience navigating breast cancer.

This well-written book provides the reader a survival guide that covers all the basics that one might encounter while undergoing a similar diagnosis. Reading such and account can assist anyone to better cope with their own path back to normalcy.

I just want to say WOW! I thought the book was amazing and far surpassed my expectations. I just love how she literally talks about everything in a basic format that the average reader will be able to understand. My favorite part is the mental well-being after each chapter! It is so important.

I chose to focus my reading on chapter six because lumpectomy vs. mastectomy was such a hard decision for me and something I prayed about for 6 months during neoadjuvant therapy. I just loved how Jennifer covered all angles and it was an easy read/one stop shop!

Chapter Overviews

Part 1: Before Surgery

Chapter 1- Overwhelmed: How to deal with the shock of a diagnosis
Chapter 2- Choosing a Surgeon & Getting a Second Opinion. How to build your team.
Chapter 3- Imaging: Understanding the Different Types of Imaging. How to understand your results.
Chapter 4- All About Biopsies. How to prepare and recover from biopsies and what it is like to get one.
Chapter 5- Diagnosis day. How can we understand our biopsy results and how do we begin to share our diagnosis with others?
Chapter 6- Making a Surgical Game Plan. What are our options and how do we make our decision?
Chapter 7- Preparing for Surgery. Thinking ahead for what you will need to have a smooth recovery.
Chapter 8- Surgery Day. An overview of the many things that happen on our surgery day.

Part 2: Post-Surgery

Chapter 9- Soft Landing. How to optimize your home and life for a smooth early recovery.
Chapter 10- Oncology and Post-Surgical Choices. What does your surgical pathology mean for your treatments after surgery?
Chapter 11- Radiation Treatment. What is it like to go through radiation? Strategies to deal with radiation side effects.
Chapter 12- Post-Treatment Emotions. How can we handle our complex feelings after treatment?
Chapter 13- Sex (or lack thereof). Breast cancer can put a damper on our sex life. Ideas to help rediscover our intimacy after treatment.
Chapter 14- Finding a New Beautiful. Getting to Know the Post-Cancer You.