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Meredith Mitstifer

Meredith Mitstifer

Licensed clinical psychologist (Federal Bureau of Prisons), ovarian cancer survivor, and former Board Chair of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition.

Sep 10, 2026

17:42
And then Heather, if you want to add in anything, please do.
17:47
Yeah, well, first, I think a lot of things are complicated after cancer.
17:52
And I guess as a young adult, you know, diagnosed at 30 and while pregnant, and then I ended up going through a divorce and I was having to go, you know, think about redating years later.
18:03
It was just a bizarre world.
18:07
How I look at it, it's kind of like these – these layers of loss and threat were kind of over me, right? Like I think cancer can introduce a lot of fear into people.
18:20
Is my body safe? You're so focused on like surviving.
18:23
Um, sometimes intimacy is not really at the forefront of your, your mind, but you know, as life tries to become more normal and you want to become more normal, you, you have to kind of get over this loss or fear, this layer of loss.

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