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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“Even though the grief will not lessen, you will grow stronger and bigger around it.” Marisa da Silva
Revisiting 2025 on this New Year’s Eve and amidst the chaos in my country, the uncertainty in the world, and…
Read More“To die is to be reincarnated in those we love…” Andrea Gibson
Terri Luanna, this quote, taken from A Letter From the After Life by the late spoken word poet, Andrea…
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Marking Time
I woke up this morning and there you were… In my heart. In my mind. In my soul. Ten years…
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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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