There was a part of me that wanted the film to end with this happy story of remission.

To be honest with you, there's the reason why it took almost five years to make was because I was still trying to cure myself because I thought

it had to be like a classic hero's journey of the moment the rupture happens and then the

hero goes out and learns a whole bunch of stuff and it brings all this

information back to the village and there's some sort of great happy ending but I

kept pushing it off because I hadn't self-cured with all of of the radical, integrative, functional back then, they called it alternative

treatments that I was doing. I thought, none of this will be valuable unless it all goes away.

Hello friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show.

I'm Light Watkins and I have conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me

who take an extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their

purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life.

Today we have a bite-size plot twist episode.

A plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode

where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life

trajectory where they found the gateway to their calling and the idea behind

sharing their plot twist is to inspire you to lean into those plot twists whenever they happen in your life because usually

when you get turned around from whatever you thought was your path in life what's actually happening is you're being detoured towards your actual path and sometimes that

looks like getting laid off or losing money or in the case of today's guest

author and speaker Chris, it's getting diagnosed with stage

for cancer.

Long story short, Chris began her career as a dancer and an actress in New York City, but then in 2003, after experiencing a nagging pain in her

scythe, a visit to her doctor confirmed that her liver was covered with cancerous tumors.

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