“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“You could say cancer treatment took part of you away, but in doing so it allowed a purer part of who you are to come to the surface.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“The cancer treatment is over, and a lot of what and who you were before the cancer has gone with it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Guard what fills your mind, for it is a wellspring of life; what takes root within will, in time, shape all that you become.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment