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I’ve always been fond of the saying ‘when your mind is calm the body follows’, but the words truly hit home for me when I was waiting to find out if I had cancer. For me, the not knowing was worse than getting the diagnosis, and I did everything I could during that time to get myself into a state of calm so that I was ready to battle the disease if I needed to.
I’d been lying in bed scrolling through Facebook in January 2022 when I found the lump in my left breast. My hand had instinctively reached down to the area when I’d felt a sharp pain. The lump, near my bra line, was tiny and gristly – not