THE YEAR I WORE PINK
25+ Years Beyond Breast Cancer
 
What happens after cancer treatments end, and life is expected to return to normal?

In her candid memoir, The Year I Wore Pink: 25+ Years Beyond Breast Cancer, Sonya Ruff Jarvis shares her deeply personal story of being young, healthy, and immersed in a successful career in New York City when a breast cancer diagnosis blindsided her. With honesty, warmth, faith, and flashes of humor, she takes readers through surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, hair loss, fear, friendships, and the unexpected moments that helped her keep moving forward.

This is more than a story about surviving breast cancer. It is about learning to live with what remains post-treatment including uncertainty, the scars, the losses, and the quiet fear that never completely disappears. It is also about reclaiming her body, embracing love and motherhood, building a meaningful life, and giving herself the grace she so readily offers to others.

More than twenty-five years later, Sonya shares what came after—the life she rebuilt, the woman she became, and the understanding that surviving cancer was never the end of the story. It was the beginning of learning how to live beyond breast cancer.