Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

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When a huge turd of an obstacle (in this case cancer) is thrown in your way how do you deal with it?

In doing so I hope to take away the very conditioned fear that has been instilled in us at the word ‘cancer‚Äô. In this episode, Laura opens up to Kris about the highs and lows she experienced while living out her ‘blue crush dream’, including a fierce battle with bulimia that consumed her at the height of her years in competitive sport.She goes on to explain how learning about her own body and gaining a better understanding of what she wants for herself has helped her to make difficult treatment decisions as a metastatic cancer patient. Because we can’t trust ourselves to make rational decisions, especially based on our ‘gut feelings’ (see here) we need an alternative decision matrix to refer to. This requires some deep (Type II) thought: what is actually effective for you based on the evidence of your past behaviour and its consequences? I ran the Bath Half Marathon thinking everyone was shouting my name, “Jodie” when it was in fact “Boobie” they were shouting to all the runners dressed as coppafeel!

It really showed me how important it is to live in the moment and fully enjoy all the wonderful things life has to offer. Gareth fills his days creating social media content, rubbing shoulders with celebs, curating live events, and trawling through the extensive archives of all the incredible and oh so memeable moments from pop culture history. Measuring their poop for gloss, both samples were found to exceed the minimum specifications for a polished object. Kris doesn’t just stop at talking us through her own shocking diagnosis, sharing intimate details about her personal life that could potentially have contributed to steering her onto the path her life has taken. Glittering a Turd is the story of Kris Hallenga, CEO of Coppafeel the charity which encourages people to examine their breasts and pecs, twin sister to Maren, and a force of nature who by the way has cancer.It involves some honesty, a lot of objectivity, and the willingness to act on your values, even if it feels difficult or unpleasant. I hope you continue to live and be happy for many years to come and when the time comes, as it will for us all I hope you know that your presence on this earth will be forever - in the work you’ve done and the minds of people like me and everyone else who has followed your journey and passed it on. Vertebroplasty to fix my crumbled lower spine and some radiotherapy to upper spine, hips and pelvis. On the one hand, this self-delusion allows us to persist in the belief that we’re more important, interesting, intelligent, or talented than we actually are, and allows us to justify our actions in support of these fallacious views.