You’re so right. We are conditioned to be terrorized by our breasts. It’s very messed up.

My grandmother and mother both had breast cancer. My mother has survived it.

I’ve had a lumpectomy before, and regularly get a lump in my left breast around my cycle, which is no longer regular.

That said, the breasts and the point on the sternum between them (CV17) get massaged nearly every day. I credit self breast massage with much of my awakenings as a woman and a writer.

The messaging is just another example of fears stoked to create some weird outcome for women. Breast cancer is terrifying. Especially in a system that treats it so strangely.

One more reason to cut your own path through the woods, and not follow the beaten track.

I don’t know any Taoist tantricas with breast cancer. So therefore, that’s the road I’m choosing to take.

Going to read the other two articles now.

Love you sister!