"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
-Maya Angelou
I’m a mom to five, wife, entrepreneur, and proud “GG” to seven amazing grandkids.
I became a cancer coach and mentor because I understand, personally, that cancer is never just medical. It's emotional. It's psychological. It can shake your whole foundation.
In 2014, shortly after selling my wine and art bar, I was diagnosed with a late-stage, rare ovarian cancer, which turned my life upside down. I did what so many people do in that moment: I went into survival mode. I learned a new language overnight, tried to manage fear while making major decisions, and faced life changes. And I worked hard to keep my life from collapsing while everything inside me was changing.
Cancer changed the map, my body, my priorities, my relationships, my sense of safetly and my identity. I began asking, "Who am I now, and how do I live from here?"
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That experience changed the trajectory of my life, and I knew I wanted to help other women with health issues. I got my health and life coaching certifications in 2016. The following year, I came across the Radical Remission Project and realized I had unwittingly used its healing factors in my own healing. In 2017, Dr. Kelly Turner (founder of RRP) taught her first cohort of Radical Remission workshop teachers, of which I was one. I later went on to become a certified Radical Remission coach.
In 2023, I experienced a metastatic recurrence, and I can say this: recurrence is its own heartbreak. It isn't just physically demanding. It can bring a deeper layer of uncertainty and a different kind of emotional weight. (I wrote a book about that terrifying experience, Uprooted, see below.)​​ I realized that you can have a great medical team and still feel terrified. You can be surrounded by people who love you and still feel alone. You can "finish treatment" and still not feel like yourself.
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That's what initially brought me to coaching and mentoring. I call it "Life Reimagined" because that's what it felt like to me. I wasn't in my 'before cancer' life anymore. I had to reimagine my life 'after cancer'. Which was scary and also empowering.
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​Life may not look the way we planned, but it can still be meaningful, beautiful, and deeply ours.
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And that still inspires me...to offer my support and walk with you as you find your way, one steady step at a time.
xo Cynthia
I BELIEVE WE'RE ALL CAPABLE OF HEALING
even in our hardest seasons.
My work is deeply personal and rooted in real experience:
of loss, of change, and of finding light again.
