Featuring Lydia Dody
Founder and Board Member, Hope Lives
February 2024
Lydia Dody, Founder & Board Member of Hope Lives, had a creative vision to initiate an organization to support and strengthen those affected by breast cancer by providing care, guidance, and education. Inspire Hope serves as a partner for those affected by breast cancer as they process through healing physically, mentally, and spiritually. She is the first to say that although she had the vision, it took a village to make such an organization a reality.
The vision for such an organization came from Lydia’s own battle with breast cancer in 2001 along with the experiences and struggles she faced with treatment. She received services through complementary care providers to ease some of the side effects of treatment and also allowed her to continue to persevere physically, psychologically, and emotionally.
Hope Lives works to provide free post diagnosis services to women in Northern Colorado. As an organization, they partner with local service providers in areas such as holistic, integrative, and natural medicine to offer products and support services that many health insurance companies do not usually cover.
The need for the work of an organization such as Inspire Hope is evident as statistically 400 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year in Weld and Larimer Counties of Colorado. As a Fort Collins business woman who battled breast cancer, Lydia is especially dedicated to serving Northern Colorado women who face similar challenges with their treatment. Lydia’s heart and mission in her work to support women in Northern Colorado through Hope Lives is an inspiring example of how individuals can utilize their experience to identify and fill in gaps in serving others and their communities.
For more information about Hope Lives visit https://www.hopelives.org/.