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Kill Fear Before It Kills You
by Cheryl Swanson
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?“
-Joseph Conrad
She had the most intense gray eyes I’d ever seen. Her demeanor matched her eyes. A quality of total attention. A stillness. The consulting room was deathly quiet.
She looked at my husband, then at me. A small woman, long-fingered surgeon’s hands, a head too big for her body. She was the chief of Breast Surgery at the most respected teaching hospital in northern California. I could imagine her lecturing to medical students, admonishing arrogant residents to pay attention. Little did I know that I was going to come to both love and hate this small woman more than anyone I’d ever met in my life.
“You have breast cancer,” she said.
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Cheryl Swanson, Award-winning Author
hello and Welcome
To My Readers
I’ve always loved stories about people who prevail through extreme hardships. But although I went through some very severe experiences, I can’t say I fully understood what that meant until I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer and faced limited odds of survival. Cancer was the wake-up call that moved me out of public speaking career, which had me in front of a microphone at conferences with up to 40,000 attendees, to giving up those $5000-a-day speaker fees to move to the small, sleepy island of Kaua’i. Here, I’ve found happiness by doing what I’ve always wanted to do–telling my own stories.
A disease like cancer asks you life’s most pressing question:
What are you doing with your one, wild, precious life?
So what about you? Are you sick and tired of being a cog in a machine, even if that machine is gold-plated? If you truly want to experience an eruption of love and joy, why not dare to challenge the status quo? Shake off the shackles of your daily routine and make a conscious decision to infuse every day with positivity and passion. The world is starving for genuine connection—so why are you holding back? Embrace emotion, ignite love, and spread joy like wildfire. After all, if not now, when?
That’s what my cancer guide will encourage you to do. That’s what the novels I’m writing are focused on. My goal is to bring more love, joy, and thrills to anyone who reads them.
I’m not nudging you to buy my books here–I’d much rather have you ask yourself this question with me. How can we agitate the status quo to forge a world that’s not only healthier and wiser, but fundamentally more just? And do we dare?
Let yourself come alive. I did. And I can’t wait to share my life with you.
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a little about me
It all started with a simple yet powerful belief: the best stories are those that inspire us and give us hope. From a bullet-riddled trailer in Arizona to an oceanfront house in Hawai’i, my personal journey has been filled with mind-bending obstacles. The stories I love and write are about ordinary people who live a passionate life and risk it on a daily basis.
My goal is to push boundaries to deliver experiences that are not just read about, but felt and remembered.
“Those who pursue life unabashed and fearless do so because they must. When I was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, I had no choice but to look death in the face and start writing about what I saw. The results were nothing short of miraculous.”
Cheryl Swanson
