A bold blueprint for navigating the sacred cycles of life, death and living beyond
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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Life is Beautifully Hard
Truer words have never been spoken. And those words flowed in and out of my consciousness on our recent trip…
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“For Mãmae”
Miss M performed her first dance solo tonight entitled, “For Mãmae🩷” choreographed by Jazzmine Szyndler. In the words of…
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“In life we vibrate. In death we echo.” -unknown
What will your echo be? As we enter a new year, I’ve been thinking a lot about this question. Immediately,…
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