Simone Giertz

I'm like so much more gentle and delicate with myself.

I think it definitely, it's like when you're young and healthy, it's really hard to know what it feels like to be ill.

And I remember...

You know, you like go to yoga class and you'd be like, oh my God, this is too slow.

Like I want it to be, I have so much more energy.

Like I need to.

And when I was recovering from my brain surgery, there was this yoga studio nearby my house and they had yoga for seniors.

And I was so stoked because I was like, oh, this is the yoga class I'll be able to take.

And I think that was really eye-opening of just like, there's no, you kind of imagine that it's just like, oh, just push yourself harder.

But no, that's not it.

With age or sickness or it's just, you've got to be so gentle with yourself and you have to cater to people where they're at.

It's awful.

And I'm really motivated to...

postpone that for as much as I can and also I was so tremendously grateful when I got ill that I felt like I had so much to take from like I had so many energy reservoirs I'd spent my life taking pretty decent care of my body and like exercising and eating well and like not wrecking my body in any way and I felt like this was the first time where that was so critical and I felt like my body was ready for it you know

I mean, I also had that thought where I was like, I fucking floss every day.

How do I have a brain tumor?

I've been good.

Why does this happen to me?

But more so, it was like my body was so resilient and ready for it.

And I was really, really proud of it.