“Receiving my cancer diagnosis in 2018 was a profound and intense experience. But something happened that was almost miraculous. A pathway opened for me, and immediately I felt (beyond a surface fear) an enormous gratitude for life — for what life was and is and continues to offer me. This gratitude was so powerful that it was a theme that lasted throughout my whole experience. At the same time, I was able to open and greet the experience. It wasn’t very painful, but there was an intense energy of exhaustion. And I just allowed myself to feel completely tired and exhausted. I don’t know how to explain the many dimensions of experiencing that accompanied me through this time except that I am grateful for the practices I’ve discovered and used in my life — that they were there and available for me to be with myself, to allow myself to feel whatever I felt.”