It was January 2020 and my life was as perfect as I could imagine. We had recently moved to paradise, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. We were getting married in March, I was in great shape, my annual vision board was beautifully created and beaming its shiny promises from the wall of my office.
My business plan was done. I was set to have the best year of my life at work and play.
And then in one single moment, everything changed. I was getting my annual mammogram and ultrasound, when Greg the sonographer said, “Cindy, you have a lump”. I lay there in disbelief. I could not accept his words.
It felt like I had already been through so much in my life … moving overseas, being bullied, losing a job, getting divorced, having my heart broken, grieving the loss of a loved one and raising my son as a single Mom.
Wasn’t that enough?
In the span of just a few weeks I was confronted with my second diagnosis of breast cancer, undertook two surgeries, cancelled our wedding, shut down my business, commenced chemotherapy and went into self- isolation with COVID-19.
My 2020 year was NOTHING like the one I had envisioned!
The impact of all THIS would cause even the strongest among us to falter. THIS was HUGE! Any one of these events might have knocked me off track, but the complex and simultaneous experience of these events was the most profound, truly grueling and yet, greatest gift of my life.