There are shaggy dog stories, but what follows is a saggy boob story…
The French pride themselves on their admiration of the female form and their love of perky breasts. Thus, it is no surprise that the first ever study on whether bras helped or hindered a woman’s muscle tone and posture was carried out in France. Continue reading Saggy Boobs Story: Do Bras Make Breasts More or Less Droopy?
As a two-time breast cancer survivor and BBC-trained journalist, I have done a significant amount of research into the causes of cancer. My self-help memoir, My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity, not only includes cartoons and humor, but also a bibliography referencing nearly 70 books and more than 100 articles and studies. Continue reading Are Gender Affirming Practices Carcinogenic?
An unusual study has recently been published by a prestigious Japanese institution that provides a league table of countries whose inhabitants break wind the most during sexual activity. Continue reading Farting During Sex: An International Study
The link between wearing a bra and breast cancer is stronger than that between smoking and lung cancer. That’s what I heard in a documentary I saw about alternative cancer therapies. Continue reading Say No to Bras: Can Bras Cause Breast Cancer?
I consider myself quite a spiritual person, so why am I saying something that folks might find spiritually outrageous? Most of us are aware of the history of black slavery in America and the Holocaust in Europe but something else is happening right now. Did you know that young black women have about double the death rate from breast cancer as white women? Continue reading Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras?
Did you know that on October 13 every year women worldwide are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness? Continue reading October 13 is No Bra Day
Numerous studies support a strong link between bras and breast cancer. Yet mainstream search engines focus on a flawed 2014 study that did not show a connection and insist that no credible evidence exists showing otherwise. What about the much-vaunted new AI tool, available in free and paid versions, ChatGPT, that everyone is raving about to solve their research and copy writing needs? Continue reading Sparring with ChatGPT on Bras and Cancer
In many indigenous cultures in Africa and South America, it is generally acceptable for both men and women to go without clothing that covers the torso. Yet in the West, women going topless in public might face prosecution for indecent exposure. William J. Mayo MD, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, wrote in the article “Susceptibility to Cancer,” published in the 1931 Annals of Surgery, that “Cancer of the breast occurs largely among civilized women. In those countries where breasts are allowed to be exposed, that is, are not compressed or irritated by clothing, it is rare.” Continue reading If Breaking Up with Your Bra Is Hard to Do…
If you want to see the online censorship of health issues in action, look no further than the link between bras and breast cancer.
Here’s the top result on Google:
“There is no credible research showing a link between wearing, or not wearing, a bra and developing breast cancer. Continue reading Busting Myth-Buster Myths: Bras and Cancer According to Google
As a lifelong chocoholic, I’m always heartened by tales of the healing power of chocolate. Continue reading Chocolate Cures Everything?
Unattractive. Old. Not enough. How many of us have felt like that? I certainly have. Finding out the man I’d believed to be my soul mate and partner for life was in love with a girl almost the same age as our son shattered my confidence. Continue reading How Humor Boosts Confidence
The comedy self-help memoir I’ve just had published, “My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity,” references almost 70 books, including one of the most quoted books in modern spiritual literature, the bestseller “Love without End” by Glenda Green. Continue reading Glenda Green Didn’t Want to Read My Book yet Liked It!
A recent LinkedIn post by Dr. Manoj Krishna, founder of the Human Wisdom Project, asking the question, “What does success mean to you—is it wealth, fame or something else?” got me thinking. Continue reading Success versus Purpose
It took some soul-searching to publish this photograph, but here I am chemo-bald, dressed as a hairless red devil to celebrate Halloween 2014. It was the one and only time I went out in public without a wig. Continue reading Ugly Lady Bares All at Halloween
I had a motto while dealing with both breast cancer and an unfaithful husband: “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” I tried to find absurd humor in every situation I was faced with and wanted to avoid the cancer victim mentality. I’m a two-time breast cancer survivor with a mutated BRCA gene that makes me more susceptible to cancer. Continue reading Breast Cancer: Humor as Healing
My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity is the latest book by CJ Grace. Her first, Adulterer’s Wife: How to Thrive Whether You Stay or Not, covered infidelity issues. My Wild Ride is an in-depth, how-to guide, thoroughly researched, filled with anecdotes and generously dosed with Ms. Grace’s sardonic, Pythonesque humor. Continue reading Roller Coaster Ride with CJ Grace: Review by Paul Janes-Brown
Sometimes industry-funded medical studies are so biased and their outrageous conclusions are so bad that they’re good, at least in a Monty Python kind of way. Continue reading Breast Implant Illness? It’s All in Your Head, You Neurotic Woman!
Here I am chemo-bald. I cannot compete with that famous photograph of Joan Lunden battling breast cancer on the cover of the October 2014 edition People magazine. The TV host looks stunning with or without hair. I do not, so this hairless cartoon of me will have to suffice. Continue reading If You Don’t Laugh, You’re Gonna Cry
My eyes were so blurred with tears, I could barely read the text on the computer screen. I was checking the final corrections to my husband’s latest book. A tear dripped onto my handwritten notes, smudging the ink. Our office manager sat beside me. I blew my nose and told him I was suffering from terrible pollen allergies. Continue reading Forgiving Infidelity: Better after Betrayal
Janelle: Do you know that four out of five women struggle with confidence and knowing who they are? The Women Emerging Fearlessly podcast is dedicated to helping women lead their lives with fearless confidence Continue reading Post Traumatic Stress vs Post Traumatic Growth