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If "warrior" is the word you chose for yourself, keep it. This post isn't about you.⁠⁠This is about the words that get h...
09/02/2026

If "warrior" is the word you chose for yourself, keep it. This post isn't about you.⁠
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This is about the words that get handed to us.⁠
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I assumed this was just something I felt. It isn't. There's actual research, and more of it than I expected 🤯⁠
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In 2018, a team ran 5 separate experiments ⁠
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Same woman, same diagnosis, described two ways: once as a "battle," once as a "journey." Nothing else changed.⁠
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When it was called a battle, people were more likely to assume she'd feel like she failed if she didn't recover⁠
When it was called a journey, they were more likely to assume she could make peace with where she was⁠
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And here's the part I need you to sit with: that study measured what other people assumed about her. Not what she felt.⁠
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So the metaphor isn't just describing the illness. It's quietly deciding, in the mind of everyone watching, who's responsible for how it ends⁠
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There's more.⁠
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A separate set of studies found that framing cancer as an enemy made people less likely to intend the unglamorous prevention behaviors: the limiting, the moderating, the not-doing⁠
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You don't win a war by holding back, and it didn't increase their intention to monitor or treat, either. The war framing doesn't even deliver the vigilance it promises⁠
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Then there's the corpus work, researchers analyzing how people actually write about cancer. Violence metaphors are the most common type used 🙋‍♀️ Not just by strangers, but by patients, families, and our own care teams.⁠
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The one I can't stop thinking about:⁠
A woman living with advanced cancer, writing on a patient forum, said she felt like a failure for not winning her battle.⁠
She wasn't failing; the metaphor was.⁠
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So what do you say instead? Not "j0uRnEy" 🤢⁠
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The same researchers are clear that journey language lands just as badly when it's imposed on someone. ⁠
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There's no universal replacement word, and anyone selling you one is doing the same thing in a prettier font.⁠
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Instead, do something WILD and just ask her what she calls it. Then use her word 😜⁠
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👇 What language did people use about you that you never chose?

09/01/2026

Now that I have your attention.... it's the 1st; go feel your lemons 🍋⁠
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Feel It On The First takes two minutes. You're not hunting for something scary.⁠
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What you are doing is learning your normal, because nobody on this earth has better data on your body than you do 💪

The first time I tried to reach a plate down from a kitchen cabinet after surgery, my arm wouldn't move.Not "it hurt"......
08/28/2026

The first time I tried to reach a plate down from a kitchen cabinet after surgery, my arm wouldn't move.

Not "it hurt"... it just wouldn't go

I stood there in my own kitchen negotiating with a shoulder that used to move without a second thought 🤍

I'd been cleared. I was "fine," but I couldn't lift my arm over my head

That's the gap this whole post lives in, the space between "you're cleared for exercise" and actually knowing what to do with your body again

Clearance is a green light with no map.
So I built the map.

There's a moment in this progression where I have to hand you off... the manual tissue work, the lymphatic drainage, the cording.

That's not mine to do, and I'll always tell you so.

Knowing where my lane begins and ends is exactly what makes all this safe for every single one of my clients

Then there's the part I love: the day resistance comes back.
The first controlled rep... the look on a client's face when she realizes she's not fragile.

Whether I'm standing next to her, guiding the movement with my hands, or coaching her through the screen being states away, that moment is the same

You are not made of glass. You are capable, and there is a real path from here to strength 💪

📩 Send this to someone who's standing in her kitchen wondering why her arm won't move.

Educational, not medical advice. Your rehab team and your specific surgery come first, always.

08/27/2026

Everyone saw a swollen arm and said "lymphedema."

They weren't wrong... they just weren't seeing the whole picture.

This is the story of how I fought to find the rest of it 🤍

Back in early spring, my compression sleeve started to feel like it was cutting off circulation every time I bent my elbow. So I did what I always tell you to do... I called my CLT immediately.

We threw everything at it.

Compression. Bandaging. Elevation. Red light. You name it, I did it... and my arm kept getting worse 😮‍💨

Here's the part I'm most proud of: I didn't accept "just keep managing it." When the standard playbook wasn't working, I pushed for answers.

🤭 then I did the scariest thing a survivor with lymph nodes removed can do... I agreed to a nerve conduction test on that arm.

That test led to my team and I getting the keys to unlock the puzzle.

Nerve entrapment at the elbow, signs pointing to positional thoracic outlet syndrome and rotational scoliosis.

There was a whole layer underneath the swelling that no amount of compression was ever going to fix because we were treating one problem while others hid beneath it.

The moment we pivoted the treatment to address those issues, my arm started to shrink.

I could see the bones in my hand. I could wear my sleeves again!

This was not an overnight fix. This was months of me listening to my body, refusing easy answers, and doing the work day in and day out 👉 with the right team beside me 👈

‼️Here's what I need you to take from this: If your body isn't responding the way everyone says it should, you are allowed to keep asking why.

You know your body.

When something feels off, that instinct is data. Bring it to your team, push for the deeper look, advocate until you get real answers.

Thats what being the CEO of your body actually means 🤍

I put in the work...
I refused to stop asking questions...
and it shows.

Six years ago this week, I would start to learn that exercise during cancer treatment looks nothing like what I thought ...
08/20/2026

Six years ago this week, I would start to learn that exercise during cancer treatment looks nothing like what I thought exercise was 🤍

I'd always been an athlete. I knew what a workout was supposed to be... then chemo walked in and made every one of my definitions useless.

Some days, "movement" was a full session.
Some days it was walking to the living room and back, and sitting down.

For a while, I judged myself for the living room days.

Here's what I eventually figured out: cancer takes your calendar, your hair, your plans, your sense of what comes next, but movement was the one thing still on my side of the table.

What it gave me: energy that returned a little on the days I moved. Sleep that was slightly less broken. A mood I could nudge even when I couldn't fix it... and most of all, agency. The feeling of being an active participant in my own body instead of a passenger princess being driven somewhere I never agreed to go.

Here's the science that backs the bigger point: Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center published a meta-analysis in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, pooling 21 randomized controlled trials involving more than 3,000 women, all of whom were undergoing chemo.

🔬 Women in structured exercise programs had significant improvements in quality of life across physical, emotional, and mental health, compared to standard care alone... and here's the part I want tattooed somewhere: no single type of exercise came out on top.

Aerobic, strength, combined, all of it produced meaningful improvement.

Which means: however you move counts.
Walking counts. Bands in a chair count. A full session on a good week counts. There is no gold-standard workout you're failing to do 🤍

As a cancer exercise specialist, I'll always tell you that dosing, guidance, and the stoplight framework matter.

But if you're starting treatment this week and you can only hear one thing today, hear that you don't need the perfect plan.

🥰 You need permission to start where you are.

Some days, the win is a heavy set.
Some days, the win is standing up and walking to the window.
Both count.

Early detection saved my life because I knew what my normal was.⁠⁠I knew the landscape of my own body well enough that w...
08/19/2026

Early detection saved my life because I knew what my normal was.⁠
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I knew the landscape of my own body well enough that when something changed, you should too.⁠
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Knowing your normal isn't the same as anxiously checking yourself every day. It's not living in fear of your own body. ⁠
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👉️ It's familiarity, the same way you'd notice a new crack in your windshield because you look through it every day.⁠
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Maybe our doctor handed us a pamphlet with clinical diagrams that look nothing like real bodies and said, "be aware." Awareness without education is just anxiety.⁠
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That's why exists 🍋⁠
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Their free app makes the signs of breast cancer easy to understand for your specific body. Their app walks you through what to look for and what's actually normal, in language and images that make sense. It's the tool I wish someone had handed me.⁠
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Knowing your normal works alongside your mammograms and clinical screenings, never instead of them. ⁠
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Self-awareness is how you catch what happens between appointments. Screening is how you catch what you can't feel. ⁠
You need both. ⁠
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Download it, learn your normal, then send it to those you love. ⁠
Early detection is a team sport 💛

August 17th, 2020 is the day my life came to an abrupt stop from a simple phone call that wouldn't just change my life f...
08/17/2026

August 17th, 2020 is the day my life came to an abrupt stop from a simple phone call that wouldn't just change my life forever... but also my loved ones.

I couldn't get a hug from family members when I called them to tell them I had breast cancer.

I couldn't cry by my best friends' side when I told them it was aggressive.

All because of a pandemic that kept us separated.

That didn't stop them from showing me the support I desperately needed.

That didn't stop them from rallying behind me and cheering every time I walked into that infusion center to sit in a chair alone.

I may have been in physical isolation, but my support system was stronger than ever.

I'm so lucky for that.

As I look back on the past 6 years and think about all the s**t I went through, they went through it too.

That's what happens when love and cancer intertwine.

No one fights alone, even when a pandemic tries to get in the way.

With each year that passes, it's not just me that breathes a sigh of relief that I continue to be No Evidence of Disease.

To those who supported me, and continue to support me the same way into my survivorship... Thank you 💕

Yesterday I gave you the framework: 🔴 stop, 🟡 modify, 🟢 go. ⁠⁠On yellow days, recovery IS the training, and recovery is ...
08/14/2026

Yesterday I gave you the framework: 🔴 stop, 🟡 modify, 🟢 go. ⁠
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On yellow days, recovery IS the training, and recovery is a skill with actual components: sleep, stress downshift, gentle movement, and a wind-down routine your nervous system can rely on.⁠
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CBD from is part of my evening wind-down, and it's one tool in my routine, not a treatment for anything. I want to be precise about that, because you know that's how I operate.⁠
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If you're in active treatment or on ongoing medication, talk to your oncology team before adding CBD or any supplement to your routine. ⁠
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⚠️ Supplements can interact with medications, and your care team needs to always know what you're taking. Being the CEO of your body means your whole board of directors gets the memo 📋⁠

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