2018-01-22
1 小时 2 分钟I hadn't processed the trauma.
I didn't know how to process the trauma, and it would take many years to figure that out.
But it was creeping out in my body in other ways because in my experience, is that the truth lives in our bodies and we can try and run away from that when we don't process it.
But at some point it comes back to bite you.
So when this week's guest, Samantha Page, walked into a gynecologist office when she was 21 years old, she did not expect to walk out having a potential diagnosis of thyroid cancer, but that in fact, ended up being her reality.
She went through successful treatment, but the trauma remained embedded in both her physical body and her psyche for many years.
She reflected on her own diagnosis and then her mother's diagnosis of breast cancer.
When Samantha was very young and decided that she would eventually get tested for what's become known as the BRCA gene, she tested positive and as a new mom, made a decision to have a double mastectomy and then reconstructive surgery a couple of years down the road from there.
She also then made the decision to reverse the reconstructive surgery and have implants removed.
She documented this entire process in something called last Cut project, where she and her friend Lisa created this powerful visual photo documentary and shared it with the world.
You can actually find that we'll link to the Instagram account and launched a podcast series to share similar conversations about people processing their own identity and redefining it and stepping into a place of power and agency and defying, very often cultural norms.
That podcast, by the way, is called final cut conversations, she kind of exploded in a much bigger way into the public consciousness when Equinox featured her in a massive international ad campaign and showed a picture of her as redefining what we see as beauty and power and strength and identity.
And that led her to literally walk out her door and see massive billboards with her on it.
And it led to a bigger public conversation about all of these ideas.
So I wanted to sit down with Samantha and explore her journey, her story, the shifts that have been made along the way, and also how that relates to her being a mom to a daughter and having the conversations with her.
Really excited, as always, to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
Growing up in LA, what kind of kid are you?
Oh, my.
Well, I was the kind of kid I was.