Feeling overwhelmed by life? Whether you’re pressured by the demands of job and family, struggling with a chronic health condition, or just received a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease, it’s easy to get caught in a downward spiral of hopelessness.
If that describes you or someone you love, mark your calendars for Sunday, Oct. 25, at 10:45 a.m. and join Trinity Presbyterian Church in the community room.
Lu Ann Cahn, former reporter, anchor, and host at NBC10 in Philadelphia, will talk about how she was motivated to get her life “unstuck.”
Cahn made local and national news in 1991 when she shared her battle with breast cancer after a missed diagnosis at age 35. Her 1992 special report “Breast Cancer: My Personal Story” won her a national Clarion award and two Mid Atlantic Regional Emmys. She also survived kidney cancer a decade later.
Despite these victories, she found herself, by 2009, feeling lost, angry and frustrated. “For the first time in my life I felt old and out of touch,” Cahn writes in her book “I Dare Me.”
“I should have been dancing every day like Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain just to be breathing, right? But I wasn’t. Perhaps it was because I had survived all of that that I was even more distressed,” she said. “Days, weeks and months were going by and I wasn’t appreciating and enjoying them.”
That’s why she started doing one new thing every day for a year, a goal that helped spawn a blog called Year of Firsts.
Cahn regularly speaks on behalf of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, other area cancer support groups, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. She hopes her survivor experience inspires others.
Guests do not have to be members of Trinity to attend this special event, which is sponsored by Trinity’s Cancer and Conversation group. For more information, call the church office at (856) 428–2050.
