{"id":3235,"date":"2026-07-28T04:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:20:45","slug":"cancer-showed-me-what-strength-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Showed Me What Strength Really Means"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tAt any given moment, Katie Rabinowitz is living three or four lives. She\u2019s a friend, sister, and daughter; a dog parent; a marathon runner \u2014 and she has stage 4 breast cancer. But while her diagnosis often plays a central role in her life, it doesn\u2019t define her. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think so many people have cancer or have an underlying health issue, and that becomes what people see about them,\u201d Rabinowitz tells SheKnows. \u201cBut cancer is just one part of my life\u2026 It doesn\u2019t dictate everything, and I kind of refuse to let it dictate everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn this video, Rabinowitz shares her experiences living with breast cancer and how her diagnoses \u2014 from first learning she had stage 0 breast cancer in 2021 to her subsequent diagnosis of stage 4 cancer in 2023 \u2014 changed her relationship to movement and strength. \u201cI used to think of strength as powering through,\u201d Rabinowitz says. \u201cStrength to me now means advocating for yourself. It means showing up for your friends and family. It also means knowing when you have to say no to something,\u201d she says. \u201cIt means knowing your own body well enough to know what it can do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCase in point: When Rabinowitz signed up to run the Philadelphia Marathon this past November, she hoped to cross the finish line, of course. But her top goal was getting to the starting line. \u201cShowing up \u2026 that\u2019s strength in and of itself. And if I can\u2019t do this and I realize that halfway through, admitting that is also strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHear Rabinowitz\u2019s full, inspiring story in the video above.<\/p>\n

\n\tContent was independently created by SHE Media with funding from Novartis Pharmaceuticals.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tFor US audiences only.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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At any given moment, Katie Rabinowitz is living three or four lives. She\u2019s a friend, sister, and daughter; a dog parent; a marathon runner \u2014 and she has stage 4 breast cancer. But while her diagnosis often plays a central role in her life, it doesn\u2019t define her. \u201cI think so many people have cancer or have an underlying health issue, and that becomes what people see about them,\u201d Rabinowitz tells SheKnows. \u201cBut cancer is just one part of my life\u2026 It doesn\u2019t dictate everything, and I kind of refuse to let it dictate everything.\u201d In this video, Rabinowitz shares her experiences living with breast cancer and how her diagnoses \u2014 from first learning she had stage 0 breast cancer in 2021 to her subsequent diagnosis of stage 4 cancer in 2023 \u2014 changed her relationship to movement and strength. \u201cI used to think of strength as powering through,\u201d Rabinowitz says. \u201cStrength to me now means advocating for yourself. It means showing up for your friends and family. It also means knowing when you have to say no to something,\u201d she says. \u201cIt means knowing your own body well enough to know what it can do.\u201d\u00a0 Case in point: When Rabinowitz signed up to run the Philadelphia Marathon this past November, she hoped to cross the finish line, of course. But her top goal was getting to the starting line. \u201cShowing up \u2026 that\u2019s strength in and of itself. And if I can\u2019t do this and I realize that halfway through, admitting that is also strong.\u201d Hear Rabinowitz\u2019s full, inspiring story in the video above. Content was independently created by SHE Media with funding from Novartis Pharmaceuticals. For US audiences only. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}