My cancer diagnosis was the permission slip I never needed to start being more intentional with my life and time. I have softened into my hard edges. I spent so many years shaming and picking apart my body, trying to improve and perfect it. Now I stand in awe of what my body is capable of—its resilience, and everything else I had taken for granted.

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- Danielle Doby

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"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

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