Tamara Severin: So, while I was going through my breast cancer journey, I was e-mailing
and creating a sort of commentary on what was happening and it was more of a factual,
what were the events that took place this week and sometimes, I would talk about how
I felt.
At the same time, I was journaling, so I remember just putting a lot of feelings and lot of
emotions along with some of the facts into the journals, so at the end of the three years,
I realized I had a lot of information and I had a lot of information that I had gathered
that no one had ever told me.
I had to learn the hard way.
So, at the encouragement, I actually said I can do this.
If I can get through breast cancer, I should be able to write a book, right?
So, I spent many-many months putting it together and I have to say that all of the journalling
and all of the information that I have recorded made it easier because you really do forget.
So, I took all of that information and I went to work to put the book together and a theme
that kept coming up while I was going through the breast cancer was boy you sure getting
a lot of lemons, boy what you are going to do with all of these lemons you are getting
and I thought I am going to make lemonade, I better, so I thought well it’s pink you
know the whole breast cancer color is pink, so that’s why name the book Pink Lemonade
and I really tried to talk about how these can be viewed as lemons everyday, but at the
end of the day, it all works out for good and you want to have some lemonade at the
end of the day.
You just don’t want to be sour, so really that’s why I named it Pink Lemonade.
I wanted it to enrich the lives of the women that are going through breast cancer, give
them a bit of heads up.
Every woman’s journey is a little different, but there are somethings that you can go in
to saying, I remember reading about this.
Okay, I am better prepared now and I also wanted people who have no idea how to help
someone be able to read this book.
I purposely made it very thin easy to read book not a big thick manual and I wanted them
to read it and say I had no idea that this is what she was going through and now I realize
this is how I can help and so this book I hope is a nice bridge between relationships
and between the patient and the doctor and the actual situations that are taking place
and so far is doing well I just won a book award for best independently published book
and it was for women’s health, so I was really happy to hear that and get that award.
I am hoping more and more women and really the people who love those women will get the
book and check it out.
I have a web page of course, it is www.tamarakayeseverin.com and you can get the book at my website.
I also have a Facebook page for public figure Tamara Kaye Severin and on that page I continue
to talk about things that are changing in the health world.
I post a lot of healthy recipes.
I talk about living a sugar free lifestyle and I just post a lot of upbeat positive things
and that’s on Facebook, so it’s really easy to get to on a daily basis, but my website
is where you can order the book and I also post if I am going to be speaking in an area.
I do a lot of speaking engagements, so if anyone wanted to book me or find out about
the book that would be easiest and best place to go.
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