In this YouTube video, Andrea Mancuso, founder of Intentional Healing and Wellness, announces the launch of the "I Am Not My Diagnosis" campaign (May 1, 2021). She explains the campaign’s vision to empower individuals, promote empathy, and normalize conversations about physical or emotional diagnoses, emphasizing that people are more than their diagnoses. Mancuso outlines multiple ways to get involved: joining live Facebook/Instagram interviews to share personal stories; requesting customized diagnosis‑specific flyers; using a generic support flyer for allies; creating and sharing selfies holding an "I am not my diagnosis" sign. She urges participants to tag Intentional Healing and Wellness, flood social media with love, vulnerability, and courage, and collectively heal. The message concludes with a heartfelt call for compassion, community, and personal growth, reinforcing that while she holds many identities, she is not defined by any diagnosis.
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Hello everybody, my name is Andrea Mancuso and I am the founder of Intentional Healing and Wellness. I am so excited to be here to announce the details of the I Am Not My Diagnosis campaign launching on May 1st, 2021. The vision for this campaign landed on my heart, so I wanted to be intentional about creating a movement to empower individuals all over the world, promote empathy, and normalize normalize the experience and conversation of what it means to have a diagnosis. Whether your diagnosis impacts your physical health or your emotional health, the mission of this campaign is to highlight that we are so much more than our diagnoses. I wanted to share ways that you can get involved with this campaign. There's something for everyone. So if you want to share your story in a live with me, I will be going live on Facebook and Instagram throughout the course of May with various people to have real real conversations with real people about their diagnosis, what it's meant to them, what has intentional healing and wellness looked like in their life, what have they learned about themselves or the world or life by having the diagnosis that they've had. So if you want to share about your story, please inbox me at Intentional Healing and Wellness on Instagram or Facebook so we can set that up. Also, I am customizing flyers with particular diagnoses specific to the individual. So if you want a flyer that's specific to you, please inbox me and I'll create that and get it over to you so that you can share out your personalized experience and highlight the fact that you are not your diagnosis. I'm also creating a flyer that says, "I support the I Am Not My Diagnosis campaign." So for those of you out there that do not have a diagnosis but want to lend your love and lend your support to this campaign, please save the flyer. It will be posted on social media platforms. And tag Intentional Healing and Wellness and show love to everyone who has a diagnosis despite the fact that you don't. We would love to see you stand by and support. So that's another way that you could get involved. And the last way, if you feel guided to, you can get creative and write out a sign, "I am not my diagnosis." Hold the sign up, take a selfie, and let us see your beautiful face. Tag Intentional Healing and Wellness on Facebook, Instagram. Let us see you. Let us hear your story. Let's flood social media with love and support and trust and vulnerability and courage and kindness and generosity and pave the way for others to do the same. When we speak our truth, we allow other people to feel comfortable to speak theirs too. I want to thank you in advance for getting involved with this campaign and lending your support to a very, very important cause. I'm super excited to hear from you. To see you, to learn from you, to grow with you, to hold space for you. Let's unite in compassion and begin to heal as a collective. I am many things, but I am not my diagnosis. Thank you, everybody.
