Thank you She Writes Press and Netgalley for this ARC.

I would have loved to have had this book years ago when I worked on an oncology ward. Thank you for this beautiful memoir and the honesty in your journey. This book is perfect for the caregiver to understand what ancancer journey can feel like and I am sure it has brought comfort to many people as they face a diagnosis.

Here We Grow by Paige Davis is an absolute triumph; Davis holds a rare voice that is able to directly speak to readers through pure feeling. Upon finishing the book, Davis has provided readers with enough doses of wisdom, hope, and soul to carry through a lifetime.

Each woman's experience of breast cancer is unique and, at the same time, it seems to tap into some universal truths. So it almost seems like no coincidence that this book came across my radar just as I was finishing chemo and starting to try to think of myself as a survivor. This would be seen as an opportunity to "celebrate the wins," by Paige Davis, who offers a list of lessons learned at the end of her book. As Davis describes the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey she took through her experience with cancer, she somehow manages to articulate the connection between the feeling of care and support provided by loved ones and the importance of being, individually, in a state of mindfulness as you are ultimately alone with your experience in the middle of the night. Davis maintains a sense of humor about the woo-woo (her term) aspects of her consciousness, and this helps make her insights useful even for those who may be less comfortable with alternative medicine. She provides the text for meditations around surgery and around survivorship, and these should prove useful reading (and re-reading) for anyone, whether or not actual meditation is a part of their daily activity. The book is a quick read and presented in a conversational voice, and any woman dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis should find many useful passages in it. For me, I suspect it will be something I refer back to as I continue through the journey of transformation myself.