Kelly has a mesmerising force with which she engages with the world and although her conversation with us might be called a story of survival, it more like a story about thriving, or continuing to thrive. When the upcoming horizon in your life story looks rose-coloured because you’ve made it through a separation, you’ve found a new life-partner and you are starting to feel like you’ve found your stride again,your narrative arc does not want the mind-numbing news that you have to postpone joy for an immediate health crisis.

Kelly’s life went in an entirely new direction when at a relatively young age she learned she had stage 3 ovarian cancer. Her life story was dramatically interrupted and sent in a new direction. How Kelly has managed herself through this transition, how she has found meaning and rebuilt her physical health and her dynamism is a testament to her inimitable attitude towards life.

We invite you to listen with awe to the gems of learning and meaning-making that Kelly has arrived at and with which she is so generous in sharing. Here is a person who is not defined by fear and who has learned how you rebuild an identity. Shealso shares some great tips of how we can be present for the people in our lives who might be moving through a life defining event. Hear what it means to show up, to avoid trying to fix the situation and how to validate the person’s experience.

Kelly is the kind of person you’d love to have in your friendship circle because she’s the one that knows how to honour loss and how to move alongside uncertainty and fear rather thanbe at war with it. She’s the one who will lift you up, push you forward and remind you that you’ve got this. She knows all this because that’s what she did to reach the shores of her new horizon