The Cancer Misfit is for survivors who feel confused, misunderstood, isolated, overwhelmed, fearful or anxious after treatment. It is a life raft for survivors who have finished cancer treatment – whether that was last week, last month, last year or ten years ago – and are struggling with what comes next. It is a guidebook to living your best life, even after going through cancer treatment, and even if you still have cancer.

There needs to be more guidance and support for the next part of the cancer journey, otherwise we survive the treatment only to get back into life and fall straight flat on our faces.

Where is the support and guidance for what comes after the treatment? Shouldn’t someone prepare us for what comes next?

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

I intend to appreciate, marvel and enjoy all the time that I have left, with cancer or without it.

Right now you probably believe that if you let go of who you were before the cancer, then you might disappear altogether. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Letting go of the old version of you is the only way to allow yourself to discover who you’ve become.

I hated the person I had become through my cancer experience – she was unfamiliar, and that felt strange and incredibly uncomfortable. And to feel that way is perfectly normal.

Cancer treatment was the cocoon where I underwent an incredible transformation.

Cancer treatment didn’t take your beauty, your identity or anything else. Yes, going through that trauma changed you but, contrary to what you may believe right now, it didn’t change you for the worse – it changed you for the better.

My life before cancer was great, but if I compare that life to the one I have now, post-treatment, I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world. No, really: if you told me you could rewind my life so that I never had to go through cancer treatment, I would say thank you – but no thank you.