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Third Time Lucky: A Creative Recovery

Pasha invites readers to change our
own questions from “Am I enough?” to
“Am I enough of who I really am?”

“In Irish mythology, the original people of Ireland were the Tuatha Dé Dannan (People of the Goddess). It is said they came to Ireland because they were banished from heaven for gaining the knowledge of magic. I like to imagine that they are my ancestors. The Tuatha Dé Dannan were mighty and skillful warriors who ruled over Ireland for many centuries. When they were eventually defeated, their victors split the rulership of Ireland in half. The Tuatha were granted the half underneath the surface and became known as the rulers of the “otherworld” forever more. In Irish folklore they are known as the “little people” or the “fairy folk,” who still live underground and come up to the surface to spread their magic wherever they are needed. One legend says that when they landed on the shores of Ireland they burned their boats that were full of gold and silver, so there would be no going back to where they came from in the event they were defeated. Their boats burned for three days and three nights, causing a total eclipse of the sun. When I was young and first heard this story I couldn’t understand why they had to burn their boats. Now I do.”

By Ninth Raven

Thus begins Third Time Lucky: A Creative Recovery, Pasha Hogan’s deeply personal memoir of her life after cancer woke her up. In fairy tales, if the third travail doesn’t kill you, it’s a magical experience.
Third Time Lucky is no fairytale, however. It’s the real life story of a young woman’s struggle and triumph over issues that affect every modern woman. It shows how the devastating news of a third cancer diagnosis catapulted Pasha into the unknown territory of learning how to love herself for real, and how she uncovered the longings of her heart and soul in the process. Not just about recovering physically from a devastating diagnosis of cancer, an identity and career crisis, it shows how life challenges can be the opportunity to leave the living of a “normal” life behind, in search of living a full life as your true self. As such, it invites readers to change our own questions from “Am I enough?” to “Am I enough of who I really am?”

Breast cancer was the catalyst for change in Pasha’s life. She didn’t understand that or get it the first time, when she was only 26 years old, or even the second time when she was 29. If the first two diagnoses were gentle nudges, life’s attempts to wake her up to her soul’s purpose, then the third time, at 31, was a bulldozer announcing that shocking transformation was on the way with or without her approval.

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