“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
“Cancer treatment was the cocoon where I underwent an incredible transformation.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“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.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“I intend to appreciate, marvel and enjoy all the time that I have left, with cancer or without it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“El amor es sencillo. Todo lo que no sea así no es amor. La vida es demasiado difícil como para complicarla más. Pero no me refiero a las dificultades del día a día: un móvil roto, un constipado, llegar tarde a una reunión importante... La verdadera dificultad de la vida es cuando te pone frente a una situación y te das cuenta de que preferirías hacer frente a todas las cosas de las que antes te quejabas, aunque llegasen a la vez. Ahí sí que estás frente a un problema.”
Source: Siempre fuertes
“When a life-threatening diagnosis comes knocking on your door in the form of cancer, it is impossible to deny the reality of your impending mortality.”
Source: Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver's Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses