11/25/2025
From our nOMad Founder- Today I’m starting my 40 Days of Gratitude with the simplest and most honest thing I can say:
I’m grateful to be alive.
Not in a polished, “everything’s perfect” way-
but in the real, complicated, beautiful way that comes after a year of cancer, remission, and now learning how to live in this new chapter.
This month has been challenging.
New medicine that makes me want to crawl out of my skin. And a very long reconstruction surgery and recovery ahead in January.
So much still happening beneath the surface that most people never see where healing doesn’t end when treatment does — it just changes shape.
And something else profound has shifted.
For the first time in my life,
I’m not waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Cancer released me from that fear.
I’m grateful for my life,
for this body that’s still healing,
and for the people who truly understand where I am — who see beyond the photos and reels, who understand that I’m still navigating this path.
Here’s to 40 days of noticing the gift of being here.
Thank you for capturing this soulful moment in our Soul Portrait Journey.