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What was the hardest part of treatment?

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Hodgkin lymphomaRemission

The hardest part was mental, not physical. My diagnosis came at what felt like a pivotal point in my career and life and I was going to have to put a lot of it on hold. It felt unfair, and I felt that resentment for a while.

It shifted somewhere in the middle of treatment. I started seeing it as the one time in my life where I had an excuse to take it easy and just focus on myself. That sounds small but it changed everything. Once I stopped being angry about what I was losing, I got a huge amount of energy back, and I got clear on what I actually wanted for the first time in a while.

So when I finished recovering I wrote out some real goals and just got to work. I don't think I'd have had anywhere near that much motivation without it.

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