For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.

Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is when the hardest part of the cancer journey begins.

Stop trying to find the person you used to be because, quite simply, you aren’t that person anymore. In order to truly move on after treatment, you must learn to embrace who you are now and stop trying to go back to a normal that is no longer there.

This book will help you to accept and understand that during the cancer journey, when you were focused on staying alive, a beautiful transformation was taking place deep within you. It will introduce you to the person you have become and show you the way to find a new life; a life that is full of confidence, happiness and peace.

We are the crazy, cool cancer misfits trying to find our way after the terrible trauma of treatment. We are everywhere. We are a tribe without even knowing it.

Cancer was my metamorphosis.

The treatment wasn’t the dark time for me; it was afterwards, when I fell into a black hole. - The life I remembered just didn’t fit anymore. Everything felt different: I felt different, life felt different, the whole world felt different.

Surviving cancer treatment is like coming home from war.

Go back to normal.’ There should be a rule that no one is allowed to say those four words to anyone who has gone through cancer treatment. How can we go back anywhere after going through cancer? Trying to ‘go back to normal’ is a waste of time; it’s impossible because there is no normal to go back to.