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Rachel Bennett Steury is originally from Lorain, Ohio and now splits her time between Hawaii, California, and Indiana. She and her family foster a thriving conservation habitat in the Midwest for all manner of wandering wildlife. She is “Aunt Rae” to more than forty young people in a big working-class family in the industrial heartland. Rachel specializes in communications for non-profit clients and supports disaster response efforts nationwide.

An alum of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Labor Center, Indiana University Labor Studies Division and the Indiana Institute of Technology College of Business, Rachel is a former trade unionist with the United Steelworkers and a member of SOAR, the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retiree
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Permission to Feel

Hi friends. This is Part 24 of my deep dive into the shallow waters of breast cancer. I am sharing these reflections from the past with the hope of being helpful to others. Please share at will. You will find all of my writing about cancer populated here in Substack: Stories From the Cancer Trail: A Breast Cancer Retrospective.

As we wrap up Breast Cancer Awareness month with a pretty p

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“My guiding light wasn’t any particular God or spiritual being. I didn’t discover my chosen faith community, Unitarian Universalism, until much later. For me, it was my grandmother.”
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Author's note: The feedback coming in has been profound. Among the collection of pictures and videos of people holding my memoir were notes about how it made them feel. Loud and clear that love poured into my inbox. Sure, I have some super wonky bits ...more
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This anthology is a collection of poetry, fiction and non-fiction essays which explore the power of women’s voices. More than 300 pages of resilience, comebacks and audacity are inside.

"The Value of a Patty Melt: Losing My Job (But Not My Hope) at t
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“My guiding light wasn’t any particular God or spiritual being. I didn’t discover my chosen faith community, Unitarian Universalism, until much later. For me, it was my grandmother.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor
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“I didn’t cry until I saw them cry. It’s a consequence of being an empath. Tell me how you feel, and I can’t help but feel it too.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor
tags: memoir

“The consequence of a working-class life is that you sometimes must do the least glamorous and most dangerous jobs around. Decades later, I’m proud to say it was my job to advocate for workers just like him
to breathe a little easier.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor

“Everyone has a story. Whether we decide to give of ourselves or keep all our gifts to ourselves, there will always be a backstory, even if we don’t realize what it is at the time.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury

“I didn’t cry until I saw them cry. It’s a consequence of being an empath. Tell me how you feel, and I can’t help but feel it too.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor
tags: memoir

“The very few women I saw in leadership in my union convinced me that if I wanted to see more women in leadership, I had to support the women who were already there and be that leader myself.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor

“My guiding light wasn’t any particular God or spiritual being. I didn’t discover my chosen faith community, Unitarian Universalism, until much later. For me, it was my grandmother.”
― Rachel Bennett Steury, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor
tags: faith

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