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Alea O'Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
356 total appearances

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Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

So crazy.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

We've gone from one side of the spectrum to the other.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

of spice jars and yeah so that way you don't have to be buying or like sticking a knife in it to like try and break it up that's crazy i always thought it was just to play with like just with a random glass at the bottom i just thought it was like for grip or no so that's what it is yeah i love that all right what's your life lesson

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Wait, what is Google Scholar?

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

gets all serious.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

No definitely not the quarter life crisis I was expecting like was expecting a crash out but not of this sort.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

So yeah I was in LA on a brand trip with Adobe and I lost feeling in both of these fingers and I was like oh weird I must have pinched a nerve.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Got home had a kidney infection that was just a side quest and I was like I really need to see my physio for these fingers.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Got out after like a week went and saw my physio and he was like

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

something's not right like I think you need to go back to the hospital and get a brain scan I start sobbing not because I think anything's bad but because I was so over being in the hospital at that point like I'd never been in hospital or had a surgery before any of this it was just like hospital trauma but thank god I went back because they found something on my brain

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

And it was a back and forth for a while, whether it was an infection or a tumor, so on and so forth.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

And then eventually they were like, I've actually never shared my actual diagnosis.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

And that is something I will keep to myself.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But two broke chicks exclusive.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

They were like, it's an incurable high-grade brain cancer.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

And a lot of brain cancers are incurable, which...

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

I didn't know before getting it, like, how much of a difference there is between different cancers.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

Like, you just think it's, oh, you get it, you do the treatment, like, so on and so forth.

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

But with this one, I've realized, like...

Two Broke Chicks
Life Lessons On Radical Acceptance, Body Neutrality & Creativity

No brain cancer especially.