by Jessica Gendron | Jan 11, 2022 | cancer, college, Leadership, Professional, Women, Work-Life Balance
As I sat down to reflect on what I wanted in 2022 and set a new mantra for the year, I struggled to find the right words. When I embarked on 2021, the mantra I’d chosen was “Failure over Fear”. I had committed to work on my perfectionism and the...
by Jessica Gendron | Dec 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
I finished radiation almost a month ago and in most circumstances this should be the end of my journey. I should be moving onto recovery and survivorship, but this is not the end for me. My tumor still showed active cancer cells at removal (during my mastectomy). One...
by Jessica Gendron | Jul 27, 2021 | cancer
Care Warning: In this blog I discuss my anxiety, panic related incidents, and death. Yesterday was the first time I pulled into the Cancer Center since June 30th. I went for a quick injection at the lab for a medicine that’s used to manage my endometriosis...
by Jessica Gendron | Jul 12, 2021 | Feminism, Leadership, Uncategorized, Women
Authenticity is a popular topic. It seems that everyone has an opinion on it and practically everyone is searching for it. There was even a time in my life where I, myself, taught authenticity to young men and women on a daily basis. What I love about the topic of...
by Jessica Gendron | May 25, 2021 | cancer
Listen to the Blog instead of READ! May 3rd was my last dose of Adriamycin (the “red devil”) chemotherapy and marked the alleged halfway point of my chemo treatments. At that point, my surgeon ordered more imagining to check in on how the chemotherapy was...
