Things I wish I knew when I had been diagnosed with cancer part 2:

By Christina Ursin

1.      Find a counselor- Therapy is amazing and you will need help processing all of the emotions that are coming your way.

2.      Give yourself grace. You will feel like a crazy person with all of the emotions and the grieving. My Grandma use to always say, “Things will not always be this way.”

3.      Your life will never be the same- I am someone that doesn’t do well with change and struggles with liking control. Cancer is something you can’t control. I tried to control everything throughout the process. It wasn’t until I started embracing the “new me” that things started moving better. I wasn’t ever going to be able to go back to how things were before, but that doesn’t mean that the new me couldn’t be a better and healthier version.

4.      There is life after cancer. I know you don’t feel that way when your in the middle of it, but it’s true.

5.       You are about to meet the baddest group of women you have ever met. The breast cancer community is full of over-the-top amazing women that are inspiring like no other.