Emily's 'Dear Boobs'-a-thon

I'd like to blame this ambitious goal entirely on my two lost boobs.

Every donation will contribute to more 'Dear Boobs' books reaching those it was created for, via the waiting rooms in which women sit during their treatment for breast cancer.

What exactly is a 'Dear Boobs'-a-thon?

Nine women are diagnosed with breast cancer daily in New Zealand alone. Knowing this, it is clear to me that the 'Dear Boobs' book I compiled last year, containing one hundred letters to boobs from women affected by breast cancer, still has many more women to reach and support!

Incredibly, 2018 saw one thousand 'Dear Boobs' books shared with waiting rooms like those I had sat in during my breast cancer treatment. I'd love your help to keep sharing the wisdom and to continue to inspire those who have been though breast cancer surgery. The positive feedback about the book from readers and the 'Dear Boobs' community has been amazing and as a result I have a long list of new waiting room locations ready for books to head to.

I'd love, with your help to enable more women going through breast cancer to feel like they are among great company, to laugh, to cry, and to heal a little more as they read the intimate conversations with wobbly womanly parts.

To do this I need YOUR GENEROSITY to support my 'Dear Boobs'-a-thon! Which is all about me getting my post-cancer body minus my original 'Dear Boobs' across the finish line at the Hawke's Bay marathon.

I'll let you in on a secret ...

I almost backed out. NOT of running the marathon, I am excited about giving that a go, but about SHARING that I was training to run a marathon, after recently having cancer.

It's weird maybe, but I don't want to make others who have been through, or are going through any type of cancer treatment or chronic illness, feel like they aren't trying hard enough. And that somehow they should be doing a marathon too. I don't want anyone to feel that they must do better, set a higher goal, or lift the bar! Having cancer is a different experience for everyone, and importantly, so is it's aftermath. I am privileged to be able to give training for this event a try and for those who wish they could do something like this, but are unable to at this time, my efforts are on your behalf too.

I would LOVE if you could support me with a donation.

The idea is, if it isn't clear by now, that I run further than I have ever run before....a marathon, and ask you to donate in return for my efforts. Though admittedly, I am beginning to thing that my daughter's suggestion of a bake sale would have been a lot easier... I guess I can't back out now though!

Thank you,

With Gratitude, Emily xxx

To find out more about the 'Dear Boobs' story, and how, in 2018, the book of 100 letters to boobs came to be shared in one thousand waiting rooms around the world, check out The Dear Boobs Project website. You can also follow along via the socials with the other awesome 'Dear Boobs'-a-thon supporters!

Check out the gallery to see some of the feedback received about the 'Dear Boobs' book from around the world, and a few sneak peeks of what the 100 women who wrote the 'Dear Boobs' letters have to share.

(Photo and video credit: Vanessa at Indigo Moon Films and Photography)