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About Graceful Woman Warrior

A former NYC party girl, world traveler, social worker and stay-at-home mom, Terri Luanna da Silva started this blog in 2011 after a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.

Reeling from the recent death of her mother to cancer, visionary Canadian artist, Jeanne Robinson, the name for this blog came from the name Terri was given at birth—Luanna— which means graceful woman warrior.

Exploring motherhood, marriage, spirituality and self-discovery, Terri asked the big questions in her quest to understand the grace lessons contained in the suffering. Questions such as: Why in God’s name, or Buddha’s or the Universe did cancer strike me down at 37? How do I decide which treatment path to pursue?…. read more

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Bearing Witness

February 16, 2021

  This hope candle has been burning all day. For Max the Man Stone. A twenty-something Warrior from our church…

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Reflections

January 19, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I’ve taken a deep dive into a reflective, contemplative, and at times, insidious melancholy…

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Creating Space

November 27, 2020

The holiday season is upon us. Incredibly different than years past, but here just the same, demanding our time and…

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Heart Home❤️

October 25, 2020

Today is Terri Luanna’s 46th Birthday… Here she is ringing in 37—pre-cancer, a little over a year after her mother…

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