 
                                                                                                    13/10/2025
                                            October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month 💗
I’ve gone back and forth about sharing this because it feels so vulnerable to open my heart like this. But I know there are women on my page who may need to hear this and if it helps even one person, then that’s enough.
Ladies, please remember to check your breasts.
My first diagnosis came in 2014, and my second in 2021 both grade 3 and had spread. I’ve had two lumpectomies, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy twice and a mastectomy (maybe i over shared but here goes)
My diagnosis doesn’t define me. 
I know how frightening it can be, the shock, the treatment, the uncertainty but please know: healing is possible.
Your body holds immense wisdom and your spirit is stronger than you realise.
Early diagnosis can save lives, but faith, love and inner strength can transform them.
From my darkness came my light. 
Through the storm, I learned the peace. When people tell me I’m peaceful now, I smile because I didn’t come from peace. I became peace.
I took a sh*t situation and alchemised it into something good, something that could help others. It helped me find my purpose my true life calling. 
To all who are walking this path, I send you love, courage, and hope. 💕
To those we’ve lost, I hold you in my heart, your light continues to guide us.  Remember we are not our traumas.
We are the light that rises through it.
My 2nd diagnosis was 16th October, the exact day I had opened The Lodge one year earlier. Nothing is coincidence. Life has its divine timings. I pushed through it working the best i could through my treatment to keep my building going, the only way i knew, through fight and pure determination, looking back i don’t know how i done it but i did. 
Every day i am grateful, keeping my body clean and healthy, my mind and spirit uplifted, even on the tough and tired days, I spend time in nature, it feeds my soul. 
No matter what storm you’re in, remember, you are made of light.
You are stronger than you know.
And YOU CAN rise again and again. 
To my daughters, i love you with all my heart. 
🌸Tricia🌸
                                         
 
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                         
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
  