Healing Ink Cancer Changemaker with Tara Dunsmore The Burn

Tara Dunsmore Williamson of North Carolina was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 years ago.  She was one of the earliest breast cancer changemakers featured in Wildfire. April wrote a piece spotlighting Tara’s work in the breast cancer community called “Rising From the Ashes: Healing Ink” from the very first “Body” issue of Wildfire Magazine in 2017.  In this episode April will read her essay, and Tara will read an update about her work as a nipple and areola tattoo artist.  April and Tara will discuss the decision to stay in Cancerland through career choice, how Tara came to do this type of work, and dealing with loss in the cancer community.  April and Tara will take a deeper dive on why getting a Pink Ink tattoo is a different and healing experience.  
More about Tara: https://pinkinktattoo.com/
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Hear more episodes about breast cancer survivors finding their place within the breast cancer community: 10 Years Learning to Love a New Body with Dana Donofree https://player.captivate.fm/episode/8fd6bcec-e7a4-4137-b280-ff60c02cde5e
Where Do You Go When You Don’t Belong Anywhere? with Laurie Ratliff
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/0b9b88ee-02ee-4a40-9ee0-c5510e986ea0
Read the “Changemakers” issue of Wildfire: https://www.wildfirecommunity.org/shop/digital-cm21
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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