Getting to know your 2.0 post-cancer
We have so much to cover in getting to know your 2.0: from Leanna's First Descents surfing adventure to a career after cancer with The Time Between is! Also, happy first birthday to Thanks Cancer (ie Mimi and Leanna friendiversary)!!
- We are a new tribe of survivors (carcinopaths!) that have the luxury of a 2.0 after cancer.
- The big c: cancer, chaos and change.
- You are a physically new self AND a psychologically new self.
- The hard restart is an opportunity… and difficult and confusing and weird and surreal.
- You need a 2.0 because your 1.0 was stripped bare. You couldn’t exist as your 1.0, and the "before" can feel like a different lifetime.
- After rebirth, you get to create yourself with everything you know as a grown up.
- Be open to different ways of rebuilding yourself.
- You are going to fail inevitably as a part of the process. Fail fearlessly. Fail again.
- Explore your 2.0 like you are in high school: fashion, ideas, taste, choices, identity.
- Incorporate water into your life. Drink the water. Be more like water. Swim in the water.
- You are a teenager. Let yourself be a teenager and understand that other people won’t give you the understanding that they would give a teenager. Cuz you look like a grown ass person.
- Let yourself be surprised, and maybe carried away a little bit by your 2.0.
- For a cancer community, check out The Time Between Is http://www.thetimebetweenis.org/ for how to approach your career after cancer and finding meaningful work.