Fanny Barry

Fanny Barry is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. She completed treatment for Breast Cancer in 2004. Before her diagnosis, Fanny studied yoga with the desire to teach while healing herself physically and emotionally.  During and after treatment, yoga healed her mind and spirit and helped her channel positive healing energy.  It still does.

After completing her treatments, she decided to change her life and gradually left her job  as a manager in the wetlands program for the Army Corps of Engineers to work on her writing, her art and her yoga.  As a path to help other survivors, she started That Barry Girl Foundation, Thriving, not just Surviving for breast cancer patients and survivors.

Fanny's treatments helped her rediscover her love for writing and drawing. They helped her cope. She documented her experience in the illustrated book series: I Wish I Knew; I Wish I Knew How to Help, and I Wish I Knew Who I Have Become. These books represent her personal observations on how her life and the lives of those closest to her changed while undergoing treatment. They are personal, however, in many respects they are universal sharing her insights with other breast cancer patients, their family and friends in the hopes of helping others through her experiences. They are in care centers across the U.S., Mexico and Europe.  They have held the hands of many many patients and are a huge success.

Fanny is a certified yoga instructor and currently teaches in Tulum, Mexico where she has completed her home in the tropical jungle. She hosts recovering patients there for rest and recuperation after treatment.  In this way she uses her expertise, talents and insight to help people make the transitions necessary to move them away from cancer and thrive, not just survive.  She also hosts yoga retreats and works at incorporating alternative therapies like dance and creative arts into her sessions.  She has an MS from Boston University School of Communications, a BS in General Engineering as well as post graduate work in Plant and Soil Science. Fanny brings diverse communications and management skills from her work as a program and project manager with the Army Corps of Engineers.  She is passionate about helping people, especially cancer survivors, dream their dreams and thrive, not just survive.

Fanny Barry is currently hosting retreats in Mexico and working on a memoir of her experiences there as well as a graphic novel about the saving the world from pollution.

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