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One of my favourite stories is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about an ageing fisherman and his epic, three-day battle with a black marlin.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert \u2013 he eventually catches the monster, but it is too big to fit in his boat, so he tows it to shore.<\/p>\n

On the way back, it gets eaten by sharks so there\u2019s no evidence of his extraordinary feat.<\/p>\n

And none of the other fishermen believe that he caught the infamous fish.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve never been fishing in my life,<\/p>\n

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But we can all resonate with the struggle to overcome a battle.<\/p>\n

No one gets through life unscathed.<\/p>\n

And many of us are facing silent battles that no one can see.<\/p>\n

These people don\u2019t get applause for getting through another day of impossible hardship.<\/p>\n

But they continue to endure.<\/p>\n

I know from personal experience how hard it is to keep going when everything falls apart.<\/p>\n

Yet the bills still need to be paid, the dishes still need to be done, and people are depending on us.<\/p>\n

Life is relentless.<\/p>\n

For the last 18 months, I have been conducting an experiment.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been reading my emails for a while, you\u2019ve probably heard me mention it.<\/p>\n

And while the experiment isn\u2019t over yet, I can report on my interim findings.<\/p>\n

When I was diagnosed with cancer last year, I made a conscious decision to surrender.<\/p>\n

Now, surrender doesn\u2019t mean waving the white flag and giving up.<\/p>\n

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Surrender is not resisting reality.<\/p>\n

Since this was my third cancer diagnosis, I knew that fighting and resisting didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

I needed a new approach, and since surrender is a tenet of Yoga, this was as good a time as any to practice it.<\/p>\n

When I surrendered, I fell to my knees.<\/p>\n

I let go of trying to control the outcomes.<\/p>\n

I surrendered to the waves of fear, grief, dread, and panic.<\/p>\n

I let go of trying to hold it all together.<\/p>\n

I let myself fall apart.<\/p>\n

It felt like I was falling, and there was no ground beneath me to catch me.<\/p>\n

It was terrifying.<\/p>\n

But I kept going, I\u2019d been through hell before, so I was curious what would happen if I just kept falling.<\/p>\n

I could see old patterns unravel.<\/p>\n

I could see long-held attitudes and beliefs disappear.<\/p>\n

My sense of self dissolved.<\/p>\n

There was a lot of sitting in the shit-pit.<\/p>\n

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Then something\u00a0stirred in me.<\/p>\n

Christians would call it Grace.<\/p>\n

Yogis would call it Shakti.<\/p>\n

Buddhists would call it Bodhicitta.<\/p>\n

It was a moment when I went beyond my \u2018self\u2019.<\/p>\n

Whatever your frame, it was a sacred moment.<\/p>\n

A door had opened.<\/p>\n

And since then, I haven\u2019t been the same.<\/p>\n

I returned to work about five months ago, and many of you have been asking how I am.<\/p>\n

And I can honestly say I\u2019m about an 8 out of 10.<\/p>\n

I feel good.<\/p>\n

I have lots of energy.<\/p>\n

I have chronic pain, but it\u2019s bearable.<\/p>\n

Twelve months ago, I was using a walking frame and couldn\u2019t even wash my hair.<\/p>\n

I never thought I would be where I am now. I am the strongest, fittest and most energised I\u2019ve been since becoming a Mum.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s because I didn\u2019t resist my fall.<\/p>\n

Life is full of ups and downs. And when we find ourselves in a natural down cycle, or worse, in the \u2018shit-pit\u2019, it\u2019s tempting to fight and resist.<\/p>\n

However, I\u2019ve learned through experience that we can waste precious energy resisting the natural downward flow, which could be better spent on healing and recovery.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been dormant for over a year.<\/p>\n

But that dormancy was not wasted.<\/p>\n

I dissolved a lot in that time.<\/p>\n

It became compost.<\/p>\n

And now, new seeds are beginning to sprout.<\/p>\n

I can see the horizon again after being horizonless for a long time (horizonless is a stage of acute distress when there is no way forward).<\/p>\n

I know many of you are suffering too.<\/p>\n

I know many of you are in your own \u2018dark night of the soul\u2019.<\/p>\n

I know what it\u2019s like to lose hope.<\/p>\n

Which is why in season two of the Cultivate Calm Podcast I share my story to shine some light on the dark and to inspire you to keep going, no matter how bleak things feel.<\/p>\n

LISTEN HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Keep calm,<\/p>\n

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