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Kristin was 33 years old when a routine doctor's appointment changed everything.

The diagnosis: colon cancer.

The prognosis: unknown.

She drove home alone, in the rain, through Orlando traffic, trying to figure out how to say the word out loud to the people she loved.

What happened in the two to three days that followed is not what you'd expect.

This is a story about choosing peace before you have the answers. About discovering that the woman you thought you'd be in a crisis — the one who'd fall completely apart — isn't the woman who shows up. About faith that arrives quietly, in small signs, before the storm ever breaks.

Kristin walked through 28 sessions of radiation, a 12-hour surgery, a near year with an ileostomy bag, and more than a dozen additional procedures.

She kept a blog. She shuffled down her sidewalk with a walker. She held onto a picture of feeling like a million bucks, a year from then.

And she made it.

Not just through cancer — but into a woman who, a decade later, faced job loss with that same settled knowing: I've been here before. I'll be okay.

Kristin's courage story is for anyone who is in the middle of the unsurvivable thing. The peace she found is available to you, too.

Hosted by Bernice McDonald — Courage Architect, speaker, and author.

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