life, uninterrupted.

My whole life, I have felt like a self-sufficient person, a make-(bleep) happen kind of gal. Totally fit, healthy eater, meditator for years, that’s me. Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact that anyone can have it and even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don’t.

What I was forced to learn, like so many other woman I’ve spoke with, was to put myself first. To really honor myself by saying no to things I don’t want to do…

I remember my radiologist saying to me, “Your mission now is to ask yourself every day ‘Am I doing what I want to be doing?’ And I do ask myself that, every day. I try to make the answer yes, even if it requires saying the word ‘no’ and disappointing someone.

My experience was about letting go. It was about really experiencing all that was happening at the deepest level, for that is where the big life changes occur. That is where you meet yourself. Where you begin remembering who you are and who you were meant to be. I don’t believe you have to be diagnosed to come to these lessons, but sometimes the catastrophic moments in life force you to focus in on the immediate.