{"id":536112,"date":"2026-06-17T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyheadlines.com\/news\/story\/536112\/she-survived-more-than-cancer-and-refused-to-let-pain-write-the-ending.html"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:24:24","slug":"she-survived-more-than-cancer-and-refused-to-let-pain-write-the-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northcarolinaheadlines.com\/news\/story\/536112\/she-survived-more-than-cancer-and-refused-to-let-pain-write-the-ending.html","title":{"rendered":"She Survived More Than Cancer and Refused to Let Pain Write the Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monya Williams shares a deeply personal story of resilience, healing, and choosing happiness despite life’s hardest challenges.<\/div>\n

MARIETTA, GA – <\/strong>Long before breast cancer entered her life, Monya Williams<\/strong> was already fighting battles most people never saw.<\/p>\n

In I CAN-CER VIVE: Live Free, Choose Joy,<\/a> Williams recounts a journey marked by childhood abuse, depression, breast cancer, permanent partial facial paralysis, and more than thirty surgeries over six years. Yet this memoir is not defined by illness or adversity. Instead, it tells the story of a woman who refused to let pain have the final say.<\/p>\n

Drawing from personal journals, memories, and years of reflection, Williams offers an honest account of the challenges she faced and the strength it took to keep moving forward. Her story traces a path through fear, uncertainty, and loss while revealing resilience, forgiveness, hard-earned gratitude, and a determination to keep going.<\/p>\n

Rather than dwelling on why hardship happens, Williams focuses on what comes next: how people rebuild, rediscover themselves, and create meaning after loss. Throughout the book, she reminds readers that it is possible to survive a diagnosis, survive trauma, survive the loss of who you once were, and still create a life worth embracing.<\/p>\n

As more people face cancer, caregiving responsibilities, trauma, and emotional recovery, Williams offers a perspective shaped not by theory, but by lived experience. Her story acknowledges the realities of suffering while also pointing toward something beyond it. It speaks to the possibility of surviving what once seemed impossible and still finding reasons to laugh, love, and move forward.<\/p>\n

Readers who have faced illness, trauma, loss, or major life setbacks may find encouragement, understanding, and hope in I CAN-CER VIVE: Live Free, Choose Joy,<\/em> available now on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monya Williams is a wife, mother of four, grandmother of six, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and blogger. Featured in Live Happy: Ten Practices for Choosing Joy, she encourages others to embrace inner beauty, overcome fear, celebrate growth, and live with gratitude and purpose.<\/p>\n

About Author’s Tranquility Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author’s Tranquility Press helps authors share their stories with the world through publishing, publicity, marketing, and media outreach services.<\/p>\n

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Website:<\/strong> www.authorstranquilitypress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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