It’s the first of the month, #feelitonthefist posts are everywhere. What does this mean for you? When you are reminded to do you self breast exam once a month do you recoil with anxiety or pretend you didn’t see the reminder or are you open to the idea but forget to do it later? Do you feel like you aren’t totally sure how do perform a breast exam, so you just skip it all together?

Personally, I appreciate the reminder for us to do our breast exams and I think it may increase the likelihood that people take the steps to do one. Many people have found a ‘lump’ by performing a regular exam, others have come across a mass haphazardly, either way, it’s a shock. For some, the fear of their discovery results in turning a cheek or downplaying the fact that they ‘felt something’. For others, it leads them to make an appointment to investigate what they found. That is if you are doing a breast exam.

If you aren’t doing a breast exam because you aren’t sure what to do, there are many videos out there. They are helpful especially if you’ve never done one before. My personal approach is different. I don’t do a monthly breast exam per say. Rather, I have a breast ritual I perform on a weekly/daily basis. It involves grounding myself, reaching for my favorite breast health essential oil blend “Happy Breast Balm”, filling my heart with gratitude for the healing oils, massaging my breasts and feeling love in my heart for myself, my breasts, and everything they have done for me and my family. During the ritual I also recite affirmations of health, wellness, love, and gratitude.

My approach may sound a little “woo woo” to some but I believe by having a daily/weekly ritual like this is a game changer. First off, you are fully present while doing your loving breast massage. The massage itself helps move lymph that may be stagnant in the area and brings circulation to the breasts, filling them with oxygen rich blood and nutrients. If you have dense breast tissue, this will help to soften and open the breasts and the oil helps with this too. You’ll get to know your breasts and how they change throughout your monthly cycle. Pre-menstrual breast tenderness is decreased. Most of all, with a regular breast ritual, you will know if anything abnormal for you arises. You will have built a loving relationship with your body and your breasts, and your heightened intuition will be aware if any changes you feel need further investigation.

So, a monthly breast exam is a “yes” and if you feel like going to the next level and building a loving relationship to your body and your breasts, I highly recommend a ritual approach. There is nothing more healing than approaching yourself with love, openness, and acceptance. If you are curious about “Happy Breast Balm”, be sure to visit their website https://breastbalm.com/

Interview with our new preferred providers of Acupuncture in Ft. Collins.

This is Monique and Dayna Larson, owners of the Traditional Chinese Medical Clinic.

contact information:

(970) 416-0444

tcmclinic.org

I had the pleasure of talking with our newest recipient Paige about her breast cancer journey. My first impression was, damn, this woman is so strong. Her story is one of courage, shocking setbacks, unbridled love, and following her dreams at all costs. In the end looking breast cancer in the eye and refusing to let it stop her from living her best life. 

Paige was first diagnosed on January 5th, 2016 when she found a lump 2 weeks after a breast exam. This discovery resulted in a biopsy and ultimately a unilateral mastectomy and hormone therapy meds for 2 years to treat and recover.

Then, 2 years later after having regular hip pain, she was sent to PT. Deep down she knew it was more than a hurt hip and advocated to look deeper into the pain. After speaking with her doctor, she had a PET scan and the area was biopsied. Then on 2/22/18, the day before her 28th birthday and the weekend of her bachelorette party, she got the news, the breast cancer had metastasized to her right ilium bone. She was utterly shocked. The doctor told her she had 3 years to live and “he would be surprised if she were alive in 20 years”.

She kept the news to herself that night, except for confiding in her father. The news spread quickly to her sister and close friends who were in town to celebrate with her. They tried to not let the news take over the joy of the weekend, after all they were here to celebrate! I genuinely believe things happen at the time they are meant to and, though this news was devastating, and the timing was less than ideal, having family and friends close while Paige and everyone absorbed the news, couldn’t have been more meaningful. 

Paige had to start treatment right away. There was no time to waste, after all, the wedding was just around the corner. Her Oncology team at the Cleveland Clinic explained that Paige’s cancer was estrogen positive cancer, more specific test results showed that this type of breast cancer would not respond to chemotherapy. Her treatment plan began with 3 radiation treatments then it was off to Estes Park, Colorado where she and her fiancé, Cody, married on March 27th at a beautifully simple wedding in one of the most gorgeous places on the Earth. Just days later the newlyweds road-tripped to Cleveland after packing their belongings into a storage unit. Upon arrival in Cleveland Paige started her ovarian suppression treatments and moved into her childhood home to focus on her healing journey. 

After a whirlwind trip with newlywed excitement, Paige and her husband had clear intentions to move back to Colorado, and her oncology team was on board to make that possible for them. Soon after Paige began Yoga teacher training in Denver. In July, once she completed her yoga training it was back to Cleveland to visit her Oncology team. She had great results from that PET Scan. It was a wonderful time. The family gathered on July 28th for a celebratory reception for the newlyweds. 

Just a few days after their wedding reception Paige had to make the hard decision to have her ovaries removed and forfeit her option to have children of their own, but she knew in her heart of hearts that it was the right decision. Just a week after her procedure, in August of 2018 Paige and Cody made their move to Colorado where they have lived for the last 2 years. Most recently, during the height of the COVID Pandemic, they made their final move to their beloved Estes Park in April of 2020. 

Paige commemorates each year of the anniversary of her diagnosis with a new tattoo as a reminder of how far she has come and where she has the potential to go. A new tattoo for Paige is on the horizon as she approaches her 31st birthday and another year of living a full and beautiful life. She continues her treatment at UC health with Dr. Borges. Every six months she makes her way down from Estes Park to stay for a couple of days, receive CT and bone scans, and await results. Though she is there all day to prep and receive scans she remains grateful and positive.

“Do not lose your hope no matter what! Remember you still have control over your mind and your body”- Paige

With love,
Shannon and the Malas for Tatas Team

Recently, Erin and I had the chance to speak with Mitsue, one of our new recipients. She told us about her cancer journey which began in 2018 only 6 months after her wedding day. She discovered her cancer through a routine visit to her OBGYN. Soon after, she had a biopsy that returned with abnormal results. Mitsue’s breast cancer diagnosis brought more strain to their new marriage than expected. She knew that their bond wasn’t strong enough to sustain a challenge this big. Not only that but her new career as a baker had to be put on hold. Big changes were on the way. She had to face a scary diagnosis and an uncertain separation from her husband with no one from home to lean on. Mitsue knew she had no control over the situation and had no other choice but to be strong and completely trust the process. Mitsue bravely started cancer treatment on her own. She had a lumpectomy and received close care from her oncology team in Denver. She also traveled to Japan for routine visits and follow up procedures with her oncology team there and spent time with her parents. This February, at a follow-up visit with her Japanese oncology team, they did an MRI. The scan showed that cancer had returned, and it was time to consider a more aggressive approach. Mitsue returned to Colorado with a tough decision to make. Her trips to Japan were put to a halt in March with the COVID Pandemic. Her Colorado team was to perform her latest procedure, a double mastectomy completed in May 2020, here in Denver. Throughout her journey, she has cultivated friendships in her community, both neighbors and friends from an awesome support group in Stapleton called The Support Sisters that have rallied by her side. During our recent photoshoot, I had the joy of meeting her most cherished friend, Haru, her beloved dog that has stayed loyally by her side through it all.

Mitsue is special. She has the strength and trust that few possess. I think that comes from having a strong meditation and yoga practice. Her foundation is rock solid, and it shows in her calm and cheerful demeanor. She is hilarious and straight forward. She is resilient, extremely positive, and empowered. She is a beautiful example of how to stay soft after enduring a situation that would harden most. Mitsue has a goal to climb and backpack again, with the strength she had before her cancer diagnosis. After her final procedure, scheduled for September 2020, she looks forward to taking steps toward reaching that goal. She loves the mountains of Colorado and to be in nature. Colorado feels like home and we are glad to have her here with us.

With love,
Shannon and the Malas for Tatas Team

Thank you to our friend and talented Photographer, Gabriel Christus for the breathtaking photos of Mitsue.
See more recipient portraits, click here.

Photo by Dakari Martin

There is a striking image of Camille: she’s out on her apartment balcony at night, wearing a bikini, and she’s juxtaposed by a warm glow from a light behind her and snow covering the ground below. Camille went out onto her third floor balcony that winter night because she was having an early menopause hot flash brought on by chemotherapy. She was looking for a release from the heat and sweat of the hot flash, yet she was also caught in a moment of uncertainty and fear.

“I honestly thought about jumping,” Camille said. “I’m such a strong person and strong people are not supposed to feel that way, but I thought I’m done, I don’t want to be here.”

If she jumped off the balcony, or succumbed to cancer, then what was on the other side of death? On the other hand, if she stayed grounded on her balcony, or if she survived cancer than what was on the other side of treatment?

“I was forced to sit still, to take a seat, and reevaluate my life,” Camille said. And what she felt was a profound urge to be free.

Before breast cancer, Camille considered herself scrappy and a bit of a fighter. She worked three jobs and raised two sons, committing herself fully to their extracurricular activities: from baseball and rugby, to Shakespearean festivals. Camille fought hard as a feminist to raise boys who are, as she puts it, annoying alphas and total feminists advocating for girls to join their sports teams. Mostly, Camille fought against feelings of vulnerability and non-acceptance.

“It cannot be healthy to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight! The cells can hear what you’re saying,” Camille said. “It’s probably how I got cancer.”

Ultimately, as Camille put it, she decided to make cancer her friend—a friend that she didn’t want to be friends with, but knew she had to work with in order to accomplish her goal of a full, big life in remission.

Duality then became a defining part of Camille’s cancer experience. Even through the uncertainty, the night Camille stood on her balcony in the cold, she chose to lean into what grounds her: faith, love, and family.

“What gives me the most peace is my faith in God. I pray a lot and it’s there that I find comfort,” Camille said. “I rely on an inherited faith that was passed down from my mother and its value knows no limits.” Prayer and her connection to God have always been and will continue to be a guiding force in Camille’s life.

There is another powerful photograph of Camille that she shared with me via text message. She is sitting straight up on a plush sofa, her right breast exposed. She’s gingerly holding her first-born son, Mazi, who is now twenty-one years old, under his arms while he nurses. She stares directly at the camera with a smile that expresses the joy of new motherhood. There is strength in her uninhibited, natural care of her newborn son, and a sense of intimacy that no one else but Camille and her mother, who took the image, were there to witness.

Now, twenty-one years later, that right breast is smaller due to Camille’s segmented mastectomy to remove the cancer tumor and lymph nodes, and darker in hue after twenty-one different radiation appointments, including four that were heavily focused on the location of the cancer, and which left her with severe burns.

When Camille graciously sent me this image, she also sent me a text stating: “This is the same breast that betrayed me—the same one that was giving life. It makes me so angry and breaks me in a million ways.”

Camille said that it’s a harsh truth of cancer that most people are not ready for—this harsh truth leading to dark feelings and anger.

Camille described her dark feelings like an arm wrestling match. There are moments of strength and moments of feeling normal, but those moments can quickly dissolve: “You think you’ve got this, but then your arm slams down,” Camille said. “That’s what the darkness does, it slams me.”

Equally, she described love as a state of mind: “I see love everywhere and that’s a choice,” Camille said.

Camille described her heightened awareness of love as similar to having lost one of her senses; the other senses then become more heightened. “I was getting my Helen Keller on!” She described feeling love in a way that she never felt before, and not only how she wants to receive love but also how she wants to give it. One way this shows up for Camille is through her experience with the Malas for Tatas community.

Camille described her first beading brunch as a welcoming into a tribe of love. Every women there offering her a place to sit, rest and be unabashedly who she is. She described the room filled with women as love bursting out of the seams, a love so strong that it slowed down her beading as it filled her.

“Without the cancer, I wouldn’t have recognized this type of love, specifically a sisterhood of the female divine,” Camille said. “The Malas team, it’s powerful!”

Camille mentioned that she doesn’t always feel wanted and loved in her life all the time, but she feels it in the Malas community and when she’s with the sisters, Erin and Shannon.

With this, Camille has proclaimed herself as Miss Malas for Tatas. Similar to that of Ms. America, she’s taken on a sense of responsibility to serve her cancer community and the Malas team.

“I want to make the biggest impact as possible while reigning as Miss Malas for Tatas,” Camille said. “Can I get a sash?”

The image of Camille on her balcony was what ultimately got her nominated to be the recipient for Malas for Tatas. When Camille came back inside that night, she decided—though no one really knew her thoughts of suicide— to turn that moment into something positive, “I still felt tough because I stepped back inside and I was grateful to have two supportive friends there with me,” Camille said. So she decided to post it with an upbeat note on Facebook.

Her neighbor, Tracey introduced Camille to a friend, Abby, who also had breast cancer. Camille and Abby initially began their conversations by texting. After Camille met with Abby at a support group for women who had cancer, Abby nominated Camille for Malas. Coincidently, Tracey also reached out to Malas for Tatas to nominate Camille.

Camille described her relationship with Abby as also one of love and acceptance, with Camille referring to Abby as being so precious she’s Pink Himalayan sea salt of the earth. And her first meeting with Abby was her first introduction to mala prayer beads.

“She had a mala on and I thought, oh, that’s cute!” Camille said. “She kept grabbing onto that mala and it looked like it was grounding her, comforting her.”

Through her cancer journey, Camille allowed both darkness and light. She accepted death, while equally accepting and choosing life. Mostly, I think Camille accepted that uncertainty is the theme of life, but fear doesn’t have to define our experiences.

“Cancer is just a plot twist—but this story will keep going,” Camille said. “I rely a lot on my faith and I know greater things are to come.”

As Miss Malas for Tatas, Camille’s biggest contribution, I feel, is her message of hope. Her strength and her glowing soul is what compelled me to want to speak with her in the first place, after seeing an image with her and Mateo on the Malas’ Instagram profile. And her story is filled with so many moments of struggle and ferocity, which is deeply personal to her, but also a human, universal experience that can connect all of us together. I believe, and have faith, that Camille also feels that this is her superpower:

“I just want to give someone hope—hope to not hurt themselves while they have cancer, because we’ve all thought about it,” Camille said. “But the hope is there, people! The hope is there!”

Interview and story provided by Tiffany Kassab

Tiffany is one of our incredible Preferred Providers and we are so thankful for her generous contribution to Malas for Tatas and this beautiful interview featuring our current recipient, Camille Lewis. Thank you to Camille for your inspiring words, honesty, and hope. We are honored to have you as the current Miss Malas for Tatas.

Tiffany is a certified life coach, connect with her on Facebook and Instagram, @tiffanykassab on FB and @tiffanykassablc on instagram 

4 reasons to keep moving during times of stress, treatment, and recovery:

1.       Exercise releases endorphins and other great neurochemicals

2.       Exercise supports your immune system

3.       Exercise detoxifies your body

4.       Exercise often leads to other healthy choices such as drinking more water and making healthy eating decisions.

One thing I recommend during times of stress and anxiety is exercise. It may not seem like something that sounds particularly exciting during cancer treatment but rest assured, it can help with several things you may be struggling with. Let’s discuss why exercise is a must when coping with uncertainty.

First off, we need all the help we can get to fight of stress and anxiety. Our body is miraculous, and cool things happen when we exercise. Neurochemicals called endorphins are released from the brain, resulting in a happy, euphoric feeling after your workouts. Exercise also lights up the reward areas of the brain, the same effect happens when you enjoy, food, drink, sex and so forth.

Getting your body moving is also a great detox and natural Immune system booster. Now, let me be clear if you are sick or feeling lethargic, I do not recommend an intense workout, rather, consider something gentler like a walk or bike ride. Even a small increase in heart rate gets the blood pumping, offering a boost in immune helping T-cells. Moving with a bit more intensity gets your temperature to rise and the body begins to detoxify by sweating, natures detox system.

Can you see where this is going? One good habit leads to another. Exercise will surely have you drinking more water which has endless benefits like, decreased inflammation, less joint pain and a clear mind. It may even inspire healthier food choices and deeper sleep. Just three times a week of 30 minutes of exercise has so many benefits its worth a try. I bet after trying that out for a few weeks, you feel better and look great too. It may just become a new healthy way of life you’ve been looking for.

Shannon

Pilates is my go-to for the Malas for Tatas community because of its adaptability. It suits all types by offering a range of exercises, appropriate for the movement novice as well as the serious athlete.  We have all heard of its reputation for core strengthening but what else? Pilates is a system of movements that emphasize control, focus, breath, strength, flexibility, and precision. Or more simply put, it’s a fun and refreshing way to get out of your head and move your body. Making it ideal for a person undergoing treatment for or bouncing back from breast cancer.

Let’s say that you are in the midst of treatment, the idea is to maintain your fitness level. It is important to keep moving but to do so mindfully. Pilates offers a gentle connection with your body that meets you where you are on any given day. On your tired days, it could give you more energy than it takes. On your strong days, you can work on significant challenges.

If you endured invasive surgery during cancer treatment, you’re likely living with some degree of damage to the surrounding soft tissue. With your doctor’s approval, Pilates allows the opportunity to start moving again. Keep in mind, when considering which studio to work with, it is important to connect with someone who has been educated around cancer treatment and the associated procedures. A person that listens to your needs, provides an adjustable program, knows when to introduce challenges, and offers modifications is ideal.  

Once you begin, communication with your instructor is encouraged. It is important that you express how you feel both during and after the lesson so that your instructor can adjust your program if needed. Initially, movements may be very gentle, always controlled and mindful. This includes stretching scar tissue and moving stiff joints, an important part of the healing process. Once treatment subsides and you’re feeling more like yourself, Pilates offers a challenge, putting you on track to meet your fitness goals.

Take into consideration that private lessons may eventually lead to group classes. Starting a new class looks a bit different these days with CDC recommendations being to avoid group settings. Thankfully, most Pilates studios have adapted. I offer private lessons and classes virtually, through ZOOM. It’s been a great way for our current recipient, Camille to reintroduce Pilates and to prioritize physical activity after breast cancer treatment. 

Shannon

www.totalbodywellnessdenver.com

Hi, Friends.

I get it, grab-and-go options are a huge timesaver, but oftentimes store-bought bars aren’t the best option for you or your family. You can’t control what ingredients are used and they often come in all sorts of wasteful packaging products that add up in our landfills - and you are paying extra for those wasteful components.

Here is a great option that you can make at home and easily store and share with your family. You are in charge of what products you purchase for your ingredient list, and can adjust the recipe to suit your family's needs.

Below is a basic recipe to follow and adjust how you see fit. These are easy to make and delicious. It’s a tasty sweet and chewy snack with less sugar and sodium than most store-bought alternatives. Bonus: you can sneak in nutritious components like hemp hearts and flaxseed. I often make them on a Sunday to enjoy during the week.

Much love, Denise

Homemade & Healthier Snack Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup dates, pitted

• 2 cups rolled oats

• 2 tablespoon hemp hearts

• 1 tablespoon flaxseed

• 1/4 cup peanut butter

• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 cup raw, shelled, peanuts or roasted, salted

• 1/4 cup raisins

Instructions

Date Paste

• Bring 3/4 cup to a boil in a medium saucepan.

• Add dates and remove from heat. Allow dates to soak until plump and soft, about 20 minutes.

• Cool then transfer to blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Set aside.

Bar

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper.

• In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients.

• Press firmly onto bottom of baking dish.

• Bake for 15 minutes.

• Cool and cut into squares

• Enjoy!

When you read the title of this blog, what came up?  Fear?  Avoidance? Did you take a second to think about what it meant, or did you keep reading in hopes that I’m going to tell you how to do it?  I wish, more than anything most days, that I could snap my fingers and create a loving and healing environment within each of the clients I have the privilege of working with.  And I wish I could do the same for anyone reading this blog.  Truth is, I can’t.  Someone once said, “a healer is someone who holds space for you to heal yourself; a healer cannot heal you”.  So that’s what I’m here to do, I’m going to hold space, and guide you through creating a more healing and loving environment within yourself. 

When we go through a trauma, whether that trauma is emotional, physical, spiritual, or a combination of the three, the single most important thing we can do for ourselves is to acknowledge it.  When I say acknowledge, I don’t mean saying “oh, this terrible thing happened, and it sucked but I’m strong and I’ll get over it”.  We must be willing to go deeper than the superficial, to sit with the feelings it brings up.  We must feel what it does to our body.  If we suppress our feelings of disappointment, anger, confusion about why it happened, embarrassment, fear, etc. it will return later with much more intensity.

When our body processes trauma, of any kind, it becomes stored in our fascial system.  And it is when we don’t acknowledge the trauma that it gets stuck there.  Our memory, our conscious and our emotions are all stored within the fascial system.  Think of your fascial system as a webby matrix that surrounds every fiber in your body.  Without the fascial system, our skeleton would not be able to be held up by just our muscles and ligaments as the fascia is the connective tissue binding it all together.  Our fascial system should move freely.  When there is a restriction, it mimics the inability of plastic wrap to slide after its been folded over itself. 

The restriction is the trauma that hasn’t been released.  In order to foster an environment that supports healing, the trauma needs to be released.  It is through the release that we can return to the wisdom held in the female body.  Freedom for the feminine wisdom to flow easily throughout our body is what provides the ultimate healing environment.

I’m going to walk you through an exercise that helps to return you to freedom.  This can be done multiple times a day if you want.  My hope is that this becomes part of your self-care routine, whatever that looks like to you.  To start, sit (or lay) in a quiet space, preferably away from any bright light (unless it is sunlight) with eyes closed.  Place your hands over your womb: the space just below the naval to the pubic bone.  Imagine warmth traveling from your hands into your body; feel your hands and lower abdomen start to feel warm to the touch.  Your breathing should be slow and purposeful; each breath should fill up the lower abdomen.  As you rest your hands here, notice if anything comes up.  If your thoughts drift off, it’s okay, just bring your awareness back to the placement of your hands. Sometimes it’s even helpful to picture light shining from underneath your hands.  Allow yourself to cry if needed, allow yourself to laugh, to scream, to smile; just notice what comes up.  You don’t have to have all the answers about what’s popping in your head, just notice it.  Towards the end of the session (with maybe a minute or so left), think of one word to support your journey and repeat the word a few times as you again feel the warmth build between your hands and your lower abdomen.  Here are some of my favorite words in case you aren’t sure where to start: beautiful, safe, empowered, powerful, seen, appreciated, love, strong, enough.  This exercise can last as long as you need, but a good starting place is 5 minutes. 

The purpose of this specific exercise is to initiate a relationship with yourself from your center and to break up any restrictions caused by trauma being stored in the body.  It may feel awkward at first, but I promise it gets easier. And once you have this relationship, then you’re able to allow this freedom to spread throughout the rest of your body.  The more freedom that’s present, the more movement there will be through the fascial system and the more healing can take place.  It’s a beautiful thing to get to know yourself from your deepest center.  And what comes from a woman who knows herself, and her body, is magic. 

I am a firm believer in our innate body wisdom, especially as a female.  And I know from the experience of treating my clients that the more they know themselves, and the more they facilitate this relationship, the more peace they carry within themselves.  Our world is full of distractions and reasons to ignore our truest self, but I’m hopeful we will all return to knowing ourselves. 

Ashley

Ashley Zimmerman, PT, DPT, NCPT is a pelvic health physical therapist, certified Pilates instructor, full spectrum doula and a Birthfit Professional.  Her approach to treating women is to address the person as a whole.  She believes that you must look past the current physical presentation in order to find the true root cause of the dysfunction.  She believes in facilitating the relationship with your innate body wisdom in order to completely heal. 

Ashley is one of our amazing Malas for Tatas Preferred Providers!

Learn more:
(720) 593-0489
https://yourstrengthwithin.com/

When I hear the words 'intuitive reading' I have to admit that sometimes I cringe.

Sometimes I still imagine a woman with frizzy hair at a psychic fair telling me a bunch of random things that I do not want to know about that I will never be able to forget once I hear them.

That is not how I roll as an intuitive, and none of my colleagues work that way either, but those practitioners are definitely out there. And if you are like me, you be familiar with one in your mind from a mash-up of movie stereotypes peppered with negative experiences.

So I made this video to give you a feel for the kind of intuitive that I am and the kind of work I think centers us, lights the path and helps us inhabit our lives more fully.

For me, every session is a ritual in which your journey, your agency, and your wisdom are held as sacred. 

The process is not just about delivering information but allowing that information to land and exploring what happens when it does. It is about connecting you more deeply to your own knowing. It is a dance rather than a solo performance (which is more up my imaginary psychic lady's alley). 

I have been midwived through illness and the darkest of nights by compassionate seers. It is my wish for you that however dark the night, there are people there, holding their candles, seeing you through.

Rayann

PS. I now offer one pay-what-you-can session each month for someone in financial need. If that sounds like you, get in touch here.