What is emotionally behind breast cancer?

Tonight we have experienced the loss of a sister, friend, companion, mother, woman.

Tonight, we have said goodbye to her life, a life that was silenced amidst the silence of silencing emotions.

Today I write in honor of her, and all the women who have been silenced.

Those who silence the pain of mistreatment.

Those who hide their emotions and keep their feelings anonymous.

Those who have learned to dissimulate and hide what is happening inside,_ _ Those who have learned to dissimulate and hide what is happening inside, _ _Those who have learned to dissimulate and hide what is happening inside

To all those women who are locked up physically and emotionally.

To all of them, but especially to you.

The story of this woman began approximately two years ago; however, fear and not understanding what was happening, led her to keep and hide inside, under a wide shirt, those changes that her body was undergoing.

Some said it was ignorance, others still do not understand how she never commented anything in her closest environment. There are those who still wonder how no one realized what was happening, and there are even those who blame themselves for not having prevented this loss.

And today, from here I can say that in many cases it is not ignorance, it is FEAR. Physical and emotional fear, fear that paralyzes exploration, especially when culturally many women have been told that touching their own body is a sin, that it is not right. This is a burden when asking a woman to explore her body in search of something different. And the question arises, do women really know what to look for when exploring the body?

**What is emotionally behind breast cancer?

**Fear, fear, fear that paralyzes, imprisons and silences?

Fear of the specialist's visit, of sharing with those close to you, fear of asking, fear of **_expressing, of communicating, of telling, fear turned into shame, guilt and confusion.

It was the silence and fear that drove this sister, friend, companion, mother, woman to keep what was happening to her to herself.

The cancer took over her body, prostrating itself in her left breast, advancing vertiginously- It too was advancing in silence until the smell of pain became manifest and was the way others knew what was happening.

With that came the questions, the complaints and the astonishment, perhaps no one around understood very well what happened to that woman to silence for so long what was happening. And I wonder how many women daily silence and keep in their bodies the pain, the illness, the feeling, the tears, the blows... Perhaps we are so culturally accustomed to it that perhaps it is strange to share even with those closest to us.

As the days went by the pain became stronger, it spread through part of her body; but even in the midst of the pain she had the strength to begin to speak, to say, to share, until last night she finally said goodbye to us.

To her today I write this message, thanking her for allowing me to accompany her in this final and painful trance in which I have learned to live in one way or another this pain, as a friend and companion, but above all as a Woman.

And today, here in the midst of pain, I am filled with courage to raise my arms, explore my body, share with other women and continue TALKING, communicating, sharing and experiencing.

So that it does not continue to happen, so that the pain subsides, so that among us we become accomplices, friends, allies, strong and we can explore, prevent and learn.

In memory of LR and for all of us.

Thank you for reading and sharing,

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