At eight years old, Ornela Maric became a child living with a parent with a life-threatening illness. In 1980, her mom got breast cancer. The years that followed dramatically impacted Ornela’s identity, and who she grew up to become. The most profound impact would be on the power of mindset, and in particular, how her mother role modeled responding to a prognosis by not accepting it as reality.

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How did her mother’s condition and perspective inform Ornela’s formative years? Discover how she shifted from victimhood and fear ot the power of “genetic destiny” to a sense of freedom over her life. Find out what her most important source of strength was during childhood.

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Bio

When I was just 8, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and was told her life expectancy was 5 years. As my childhood abruptly became defined by the fear of losing her, and as more family members started getting all kinds of cancers over the years, I unconsciously adopted the mindset of being a victim of my genes.

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I carried that mindset well into my 40s until I started learning about the impact of unprocessed emotions on the onset of health issues and on our overall health and well-being. I understood how my mother defied being identified by and through the diagnosis, and how she managed to live a good, quality life 3x longer than the prognosis she was given. I also embarked on an even deeper journey of my own healing after losing her, through which I had also become aware that growing up by her side had taught me so much more than I was initially aware of, and had planted a seed of the work I do today.

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Initially trained as an engineer, in my mature years I discovered therapy work as my true labor of love. Today I have my own online practice in which I combine my analytical and problem-solving skills, with lessons learned from my late mother, and my passion for working with people on resolving their own traumas to help them develop unshakeable self-love and solid self-care practices, so they to create lives in which they are not just coping but thriving, no matter their age or circumstances.

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