Amy Purdy

It's amazing what you can do when you choose to not be a victim, when you choose to focus on the possibilities instead of the problem.

I lost my legs, my kidneys, my spleen, the hearing in my left ear overnight.

My world was completely different.

But what helped me not be a victim is I made the choice to not be a victim.

You take one little step at a time and you see where it leads.

Our challenges can teach us so much.

And that's what going through what I went through, it was a seven year journey of getting back on my feet to walk again.

If you allow yourself to be in the moment and lean into what you're going through instead of trying to resist it, you can learn so much.

And those moments become some of your most, I think, grounded special moments.

Yeah, it was a huge change.

I mean, I lost my legs, my kidneys, my spleen, the hearing in my left ear overnight.

And my world was completely different.

But what helped me not be a victim is I made the choice to not be a victim from the very beginning.

So I remember being wheeled into the operating room where I was going to lose both of my legs.

And I had no idea what to expect.

You know, I had no idea what my life on the other side of this was going to look like.

And I was so scared, but I gave myself three goals.

And I think I did this because I needed something.

I needed something to hang on to, to kind of pull me into the future.

And so I gave myself three goals.