9-Times Grammy award winning singer Cheryl Crow speaks of her experience of breast cancer:
"The entire experience was a real source of remembering who I am. It was about looking at my life and realigning it.
"Every experience you have where life comes to a screeching halt dictates that you take a refresher course on who you came in as. I was someone who could never say no. I had to learn to say no, I had to learn to be OK with not everyone liking me because I was a people-pleaser, a caretaker, and I had to unlearn that.
"The first thing I had to learn how to do was to sit, be quiet and hold an emotion, and not to do that thing of staying busy and not thinking about it, because you wind up not experiencing the lesson. So I allowed myself to grieve, to feel scared, and I came out of it feeling like I'd been liberated."
From an interview by Elisabeth Day, published in The Observer, Sunday 18 July 2010
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