Bonjour Breast Cancer – I’m Still Smiling! – Uplifting Strategies For Facing Each Challenge With Humor And Positivity
North Brunswick, NJ, December 5, 2019 — For those women (and men), who receive a diagnosis of breast cancer, there is nothing more panic-inducing. The brain can travel to some dark places and linger there forever without proper intervention. Enter Princess Diane von Brainisfried (aka Diane Young Uniman), an award-winning writer and breast cancer survivor who aims to help others rediscover their happy headspaces with her irreverently humor-filled new release, Bonjour, Breast Cancer — I’m Still Smiling!
Written with a deliciously humorous tone, this essential guide to beating the breast cancer blues combines von Brainisfried’s own experiences and insights with research-based positive psychology strategies. Along the way, she shares wisdom from Socrates, Cherokee legends and her own Jewish great-grandmother to help those facing cancer diagnoses reclaim their happiness mojo and move from fear and despair to positivity and optimism.
From her own breast cancer diagnosis to chemo, baldness, double mastectomy, radiation —and 3-D nipple tattoos — she holds nothing back, imparting refreshing honesty (that’s always dappled with humor) to encourage and empower others on their journeys. Bonjour, Breast Cancer — I’m Still Smiling! is the closest thing to having a hand to hold onto throughout any difficult experience.
Some of the secrets inside:
• Create blessings out of bad news without needing a magic wand
• Comfort family and others
• Tame fear when it is acting like a monkey and going bananas
• Find the pluses when they pop up
Regaining equilibrium and reclaiming happiness following a cancer diagnosis is not easy. It’s OK to wallow — for a moment. Bonjour, Breast Cancer — I’m Still Smiling! shares a king’s ransom of practical advice and wisdom to find positivity in the face of the challenges posed by breast cancer and everything that goes with it.
When author Princess Diane is not smashing champagne bottles over the bows of ships or blogging her brains out at her palace desk, she’s a motivational speaker and certified positive psychology life coach, the optimist expert for the Women’s Health Institute of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and was a facilitator at Miami’s World Happiness Summit. When the Princess is not wearing her tiara, she is known as Diane Young Uniman, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and criminal justice appeals attorney turned writer of screenplays and musicals. Her work has been featured at Lincoln Center’s Broadway’s Future series and was accepted into Fringe/NYC. She has won over 50 awards for her screenplays and musicals and an ASCAP award for writing. Diane is also an opera singer and an advanced student at the New York School of Practical Philosophy. Bonjour, Breast Cancer — I’m Still Smiling! is her first book.
To learn more, please visit www.princessdianevonbrainisfried.com