I rushed through it wrapped in my duvet and accompanied by mugs of instant coffee, and couldn’t wait to pass it on to a friend. What an inspiring story of a 23 year olds journey with what started as breast cancer during a pandemic.

Kris is a true inspiration and shows how you really can have an amazing life despite being terminally ill. Presenter, author, campaigner, Natasha Devon tours schools, universities and a whole host of events across the globe delivering her insights on mental health, body image, gender and equality. In this episode Fearne and Kris get further into long standing anxiety, how despite all the work you can do on yourself some old thoughts will always creep up and how to be kind to yourself.

Consequently, we resist the notion that our preset worldview might be faulty, incomplete, or dangerous. You may have many questions about all the above and I did too when I first embarked on a mission to help myself heal.

I would recommend this book to everyone young and old to tell them that life is short that they have seize the day and to always check your boobs. Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in love, making plans.After pushing to get a cervical smear, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and subsequently treated! Kris speaks openly about everything from being treated badly by boys, setting up a successful cancer charity, leaving that charity in the hands of others, and why she won’t be giving up chocolate anytime soon.

It‚Äôs my discoveries that can help the most ordinary of people, with the most normal of life‚Äôs problems, learn from a normal girl with an extraordinary story. At 34 I can say I have so far led a life that has simultaneously made me happy, glad, sad, angry, grateful, accepting, appalled, desperate and every other possible emotion all smashed together and amplified.His story is a wonderful example of how you can find your purpose, simply by doing the things you love. I appreciate money is super tight for so many people so am offering this tier for people who still would like access but have minimal funds. This is why working with a psychologist can help – it’s easier to be objective about what actually happened. Gaby isn't apologetic about her outlook on life, her positivity isn't toxic it is a case of she is who she is, and who she is is a total joy!

Then I saw the tv documentary “Dying to Live” and I’m a Newquay local so often bump into their delish Coffee van. Don’t forget to give Kris a follow on Instagram to see video clips from the podcast as well as hearing about the work CoppaFeel!

This book time hops to give you an insight into the life growing up, the life before diagnosis and the life during the diagnosis. And yet I still feel anyone who lives with a chronic or terminal condition, and really LIVES with it, is inspirational. As Daniel Kahneman has pointed out (and I’ve reiterated in many of my blogs), complex thinking requires a lot of blood sugar to fuel the brain. She has received a Pride of Britain Award, a Cosmopolitan Campaigner of the year award, and been awarded an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University. Remember that, when trying to determine this framework, you’ll probably be self-deluding by making stuff up to fit a viewpoint of events (see here for a discussion of values).