Stronger…

Five women who found strength through adversity reveal what helped them to be more resilient

‘While we will never forget the difficult events, we can learn to co-exist with them’ When Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukaemia aged 22, she coped by sharing her struggle to survive. ‘It was spring 2011 when I was told I had leukaemia. I’d recently graduated from college and moved to Paris, where I worked as a paralegal, but my dream was to become a war correspondent. The world was truly my oyster. However, when a simple itch, initially diagnosed as burnout syndrome, turned out to be cancer, everything changed. Before I knew it, I was on a plane back to New York, where I would spend the next four years of my life in a hospital bed. Told I had only a 35% chance of survival, I felt all my courage…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2021

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