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“Self-love is about slipping up, having the bad days and loving ourselves despite of them, forgiving ourselves and, most importantly, having compassion for ourselves and how we’re feeling. So, give yourself permission to fall down, but don’t give yourself permission to stay there.”

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“You don’t need to fit into any square, round or triangular holes anymore. You don’t need to fit into a pretty package or be the same as everybody else. You just need to accept and love yourself exactly as you are.”

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“The treatment wasn’t the dark time for me; it was afterwards, when I fell into a black hole. - The life I remembered just didn’t fit anymore. Everything felt different: I felt different, life felt different, the whole world felt different.”

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“Go back to normal.’ There should be a rule that no one is allowed to say those four words to anyone who has gone through cancer treatment. How can we go back anywhere after going through cancer? Trying to ‘go back to normal’ is a waste of time; it’s impossible because there is no normal to go back to.”

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“Please don’t try to ‘go back to normal’ after the trauma of cancer treatment, because you will not find it. The normal you remember before the treatment has gone, and the sooner you make peace with that, the sooner you can truly move on.”

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“This is the secret: while you were going through the pain and sorrow of cancer treatment, everything inside you was dissolving and evolving, letting go of old parts of yourself and creating new ones.”

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“Through the negative experience of cancer treatment you have the opportunity to rediscover yourself, to peel back the layers and connect with the very purest part of you that’s probably been buried for most of your life.”

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“My life before cancer was great, but if I compare that life to the one I have now, post-treatment, I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world. No, really: if you told me you could rewind my life so that I never had to go through cancer treatment, I would say thank you – but no thank you.”

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“Cancer treatment didn’t take your beauty, your identity or anything else. Yes, going through that trauma changed you but, contrary to what you may believe right now, it didn’t change you for the worse – it changed you for the better.”

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“I hated the person I had become through my cancer experience – she was unfamiliar, and that felt strange and incredibly uncomfortable. And to feel that way is perfectly normal.”

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“Right now you probably believe that if you let go of who you were before the cancer, then you might disappear altogether. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Letting go of the old version of you is the only way to allow yourself to discover who you’ve become.”

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“We are the crazy, cool cancer misfits trying to find our way after the terrible trauma of treatment. We are everywhere. We are a tribe without even knowing it.”

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“For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.”

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“Stop trying to find the person you used to be because, quite simply, you aren’t that person anymore. In order to truly move on after treatment, you must learn to embrace who you are now and stop trying to go back to a normal that is no longer there.”

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“This book will help you to accept and understand that during the cancer journey, when you were focused on staying alive, a beautiful transformation was taking place deep within you. It will introduce you to the person you have become and show you the way to find a new life; a life that is full of confidence, happiness and peace.”

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“The Cancer Misfit is for survivors who feel confused, misunderstood, isolated, overwhelmed, fearful or anxious after treatment. It is a life raft for survivors who have finished cancer treatment – whether that was last week, last month, last year or ten years ago – and are struggling with what comes next. It is a guidebook to living your best life, even after going through cancer treatment, and even if you still have cancer.”

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“In essence, everything and everyone is made up of the same universal energy: you, me, the chair I’m sitting on, the trees and birds I can see outside my window, the guy from Amazon that just dropped off a package at my door and the package he delivered. Everything is connected, everything is part of this universal life force, everything is made up of the same stuff.”

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“We’re stuck with ourselves all the time, with the thoughts that race around our brains at 10,000 mph, with our feelings, with our daily dramas and our ongoing struggles. But by thinking about someone else, authentically listening to and connecting with another person, you focus less on all your own strife and struggles. You get a break from you.”

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“Change isn’t bad. Transformation isn’t bad. Growing, evolving, learning and renewing: these are the things that take our lives to a new level, the things that open our eyes to a whole new way of being, to experiencing a peace and happiness we never knew existed.”

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