Being diagnosed with cancer immediately halts everything in life. It's the stop sign you never saw coming, the red light in the middle of busy roadway. What on earth?!", your mind questions and simultaneously tries to find answers. "But I've been so good!" Trying to find the why and the how is a natural tendency in order for the brain to cope with the present. The truth at the heart of it was, I was not taking care of myself. I thought taking care of myself meant soaking in

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