“Louise Desjardins shares an inspirational story you will want to pass on to the women in your life…She is only thirty-eight years old when, facing a reality all women dread, cancer robs her of both her breasts. Deciding against reconstructive surgery she attempts a return to normality but nothing feels the same, and when her marriage ends, she now finds herself single, and “breast-less.” With charismatic honesty, grace and humor, Louise recounts swimming upstream to reconnect with a now more than imperfect body and the uncertainty that follows. Finally, she learns firsthand how feeling beautiful and desirable begins, or ends, in our mind. Describing the moment she celebrates the flawed reflection in the mirror for the first time marks her passage into a bold, new, empowering attitude: one that awakens a dormant self-love, the same one she describes as residing in all of us, yet is silenced by our slavery to other people’s expectations. With her loss of what is perceived as the ultimate symbol of womanhood, comes a new language of sensuality she reveals as the declaration of becoming “More Than A Woman™”- the powerful philosophy of self-love and acceptance she wrote for herself that has touched the lives of countless women. At a time when we measure our worth by impossible standards of airbrushed perfection, her empowering journey reminds us that it is never too late for self-love. Along the way, her “reconstruction from within” becomes a pivotal point when she finds the courage to date again and bare her battle scars. Then, much to her amazement…the unexpected happens.”