Sharing my story in April - Bowel Cancer Awareness month

I’m inspired to write a quick blog as I’ve noticed that the more I share my cancer story with others, the more I’ve noticed how cancer affects everyone, in some way or another. As the date of my charity trek draws closer, I’ve started to speak at my networking meetings, as well as be more open to friends and colleagues about what happened to me nearly 5 years ago. I’ve been quite overwhelmed at not only the incredible supportive responses I’ve received, but also how by opening myself up that gives others permission to do the same and to share their cancer experiences. It is very moving to hear them, and that inspires me to continue this journey of raising awareness for bowel cancer, especially in April which is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.

By being open about what’s happened to us, and more importantly about how those experiences make us feel, we can take the power back from this disease and it is no longer perceived as a nightmare, a petrifying death-sentence. Rather something that can (and does) happen to anyone (the best of us!), and that it may, in time, even become something that makes us stronger and better people. Everyone who knows me knows that I am very grateful to the cancer diagnosis. It’s given me an amazing second life, a better life and a more spiritual life. I was quoted once in a newspaper as saying that “It’s like I was half asleep before, and now I’m wide awake”. I certainly wouldn’t change one single thing about the last five years - the toughest times gave me the biggest lessons.

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