"These are portraits of hope," she said. "When I was going through my cancer journey and all my appointments I didn't think about what I'd look like after my mastectomy. Now I just want to help others."
And while baring all for others to see was a little daunting to begin with, Raewyn told the Dannevirke News it wasn't about her.
"These images can help to ease the fear and anxiety women can have about their body images and the photo shoot has been so worth it," she said.
But while Raewyn admits it took her sometime to come to grips with her breast cancers, she realises others have had a more difficult cancer journey.
"It took a long time, but I'm happy and content and like all those photographed in Hope Emerges I know I'm still beautiful within. These photos tell a very powerful story," she said.
"When I saw the first photos last year of the women I looked at their faces not their breasts, but I don't mind people looking at my breasts. I think the photos will help women because they're not in a clinical setting. They're beautiful.
"I do respect the fact some women might think they'll never look like this, but I hope they will find an inner peace."
Raewyn's first brush with cancer was when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 25.
"It came as a shock, but somehow you get through and move on with life," she said. "I thought I'd put cancer well and truly behind me. That was until 2004. I was 46 and I noticed some discharge out of my right nipple. I went for numerous tests, but they were all negative, but I was still concerned. My doctor was very supportive and wonderful and we monitored things until 18 months later it was discovered I had widespread ductal carcinoma in situ (DCI) and I was referred to the surgeon to have a lumpectomy."
Raewyn had annual mammograms and, in 2011, calcifications in her left breast were discovered and the decision was made to have a mastectomy.
"At the time, I just wanted my breast removed and I decided not to have a reconstruction. For me, I felt a reconstructed breast would not feel the same as my remaining boob and I thought, it just wasn't for me. To be honest, it didn't really bother me. I knew there would be a longer recovery time and a few surgeries and I did not want to put my body or mind through that at the time," she said. "I knew what I was dealing with was enough, but a lot of women go through so much more.
"When I lost my breast, there were tears, but if it was going to save my life in the long term, then that's what had to happen. I'm still happy with my decision.
"For each of us on this journey, we have to do what feels right for us. It is an emotional time and you can feel as if you are on a roller-coaster ride. You just have to take it one day at a time and surround yourself with wonderful, supportive people."
Raewyn said her children and doctor Jane Laver supported her decision to reveal her breasts for the photo shoot.
"My son said he was so proud of me and my outlook on life," she said. "When you're on the breast cancer roller-coaster and fighting to get through, you don't think of the post-mastectomy image, but there's a choice for women and through Hope Emerges I hope they see my images and realise they too can feel confident and be beautiful in their own skin and to never give up hope."
