WELCOMe TO Story Share

WHat is Story Share?

This platform exists as a place to share your unique and vulnerable story about your journey with cancer. Sharing your story with other people who can relate, and hearing the stories of others, can be transformational and profoundly healing.  

Please join us to share your story or simply to listen to others…to know you are not alone in this challenging journey with cancer. This is a safe place to be open, honest, and vulnerable…without judgement.  The intent of this space is to allow you to speak what is true for you right now on your unique path and simply be heard. We do not aim to offer suggestions, guidance or therapy.
We simply are offering you a space to tell your story.

Bring your authentic self.  All the tears and the laughter, all the pain and the joy.
We want to bear witness to your STORY.

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Meet Evan - Visionary & Host of Story Share

My name is Evan, I am a 40 year old man currently living in Haines, AK.  A little over two years ago I was diagnosed with cancer.  I underwent 18 weeks of a chemotherapy regimen and came out the other side cancer free.  But the journey was not easy, and after the treatment was completed the real work began.  Processing what had just happened was very challenging.  There were dark days trying to piece back together what seemed like a life that had been blown apart.  But through my journey I have come to understand that cancer has been my greatest teacher.  

I had been a healthy and active man prior to my diagnosis.  I had been a wildland firefighter since 2003, travelled the world, worked as a commercial fisherman, spent countless days in wilderness settings and lived a life-of-adventure.  Cancer was the last thing I thought would happen to me.

But when I returned from a run one day and found my entire left arm had turned blue, completely cyanotic, I decided to get it checked out.  This day changed my life forever.  I was told I had a 14 cm long tumor growing in the center of my chest above my heart.  “That’s pretty big,”  I exclaimed to the Doctor as I took in the news.  “Yes,” it was.  So my plans soon changed and I embarked on a journey with cancer.

In hindsight, my body had been telling me for months that something was not right.  Tightness in my chest, a stiff neck and arm, harder than usual workouts, and a general feeling that something was a little off.  But nobody wants to admit something is wrong with their health.  I wrote it off as me just getting older, I was almost 40 after all.  But those signs were obvious after I was diagnosed.  Something had been out of alignment for quite awhile.  

Through my journey with cancer I remained grateful for the opportunity to grow and to learn what that concept of “alignment” actually meant.  For me understanding the mind body connection was so important.  I learned that so much of my illness seemed to be related to thought patterns and emotions as well as a tendency to try to impart my will on the Universe instead of living from a place of acceptance of what is.  My journey has helped me grow into a more spiritual person.  Something I thought I was, but soon realized I needed to feel more.  Letting go became the theme of this growth.  Letting go of all the thoughts, emotions, expectations, attachments and feelings that I held onto so tightly before my journey with cancer.  

Now, as I look out at the sky to the east, waiting for the sun to rise over the dramatic peaks of the Chilkoot Mountains, watching treetops sway in the North wind and Ravens fly by, I am more at peace than I have been in some time. I am perpetually grateful for each day I have on this amazing planet. I feel connected to the powers that be, and excited to continue growing and thriving as a human. I am profoundly aware of how connected I am to everyone and everything. Cancer has shown me this connection and for that I am grateful. I dearly hope to share in your story as well. Perhaps together we can deepen the connection that we already have.

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