Surviror Pageant

To mend: to repair, to fix, to put back together, to restore, to recover, to heal or recuperate. In life, change brings joy, tragedy, pain and tone, or triumph….but most of all change comes to change you. Perhaps it’s a divorce, the lost of loved or a broken relationship or the ultimate CANCER. When change happens all you know is its time to mend.

Usually someone or something has us in a place of brokenness. There are pieces of you scattered in so many places and you don’t know how to put them back together. All you know is that something is wrong. Maybe it’s financially, emotionally, physically or spiritually but mending becomes a necessity. Celebrate Life Foundation may not know the answer to every situation but we create a creative learning environment for 8 women to come together and receive seminars on health and fitness, financial management, stress management , and patient care just to name a few. It’s a time time not only to relax and be pampered but to establish new friendships and leave with the tools to maintain existing relationships.

To survive: stay alive, live, and live on, LIVE TO TELL THE TALE, continue to exist, endure, and to carry on. Many of us have survived something but it is truly something to be a Cancer Survivor……Its important for women to have a forum that encourages them not to be afraid to tell the TALE.

Dianne expresses through poetry that you can "survive" and that "you are not your hair "

Celebrate Life Foundation hosts the first of its kind Survivor pageant for cancer survivors/patients, representing states all over the U.S. By having winners and contestants all over the U.S., CLF will have ambassadors in every state educating about HPV, Cervical cancer and prevention for other cancers. It will be a purple carpet event. One of the highlights is that the contestants, winner and the audience will receive O’s gifts from the O list (Oprah Winfrey). In addition surprise celebrity judges will be judging this exciting event.

Celebrate Life Foundation ties the 3 day mending heart retreat into the Survivor pageant.   This 3 day seminar will change and enhance the lives of the participants. The retreat will consist of seminars that will motivate attendees to examine emotional, physical, spiritual and financial areas in their lives. Participants are given a forum to take their first steps towards restoration during this retreat. They can leave with the tools to soar like an eagle above the trials and tribulations they have experienced.

Dianne Stewart is crowned the 1st Ms. CLF representing the Commonwealth of VA.

When we are hit with a life changing circumstance such as “Cancer”, our lives are turned upside down and inside out. But there is “Life Beyond Cancer”. We not only need to heal physically but we also need to be restored, and rejuvenated in other areas such as past emotional, spiritual and financial hurts.

 Eight women will be selected to participate in the pageant.  This pageant will be unique in that we will celebrate the beauty inside. This type of beauty is the best kind….There will be a talent contest, an evening gown competition and the “Royal Court Ceremony”. The winner will be crowned Ms/Mrs. CLF of the state that is represented. She will receive many prizes from our sponsors, a chance to reach out to the community through education and the chance to be heard in a special kind of way.