My Story
At 10:10, On February 4th, 2017, World Cancer Day, Katherine Dolphin Griffin’s life fell apart. Her beloved father, Joe, lost his 5th battle with cancer. Life as she knew it was changed forever, and the grief was crippling.
Katherine, a cancer survivor herself, wanted to help make more survivors. So she decided to fundraise in a way that gives all of her, in an honest, raw, and passionate way, putting as much of herself into it as possible. As a result, she has written her first book, which shares her coping strategies that have resulted in her healing and recovery from trauma and finding joy.
The book’s proceeds will go directly to The Irish Cancer Society and Marymount Hospital and Hospice. She hopes that her feel-good story of finding ways to cope with life’s challenges will help others too. Drawing on all she has learned, first to survive and then, in time, to thrive, Hope to Cope is a journey of love and perseverance to find strength through the most challenging times.
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Now she’s on a mission: to help increase the number of survivors by fundraising for cancer research in her dad’s honour. “I don’t have the stamina to climb mountains. So my husband said: ‘Write, about what you know and what you’ve been through’.” The book she’s writing includes 15 essays, “honest raw accounts of my journey” — each tells the story of a struggle she has experienced, as well as the tools she used to overcome it.
Finding hope to cope with loss, cancer and life’s challenges:
In our Rise series exploring resilience, Maria Moynihan talks to Katherine Dolphin Griffin about how she found “hope to cope” with loss, cancer and all that life has thrown her way.
EVERYONE who had been touched by Katherine Dolphin Griffin stories told her to write a book. Hope to Cope is in honour of her beloved dad and to raise funds for cancer research. Katherine shows us through her own stories that in accepting what we cannot change, we can look to the things that we can change and put our focus there.
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