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Three days after a mammogram, Arlene Trott discovered a lump in her breast. She was fishing with her two young children at the time. “I wasn’t digging around or palpitating,” she said. “I just brushed my hands over my chest.” The lump was hard and t...

Tiffanne Thomas became a counsellor because she wanted to make a difference. Despite her best efforts however, the 34-year-old never felt she was doing enough. “I felt I wasn’t really living up to my full capacity,” she said. “I felt pulled to do mor...

It was a year since her mother died and Bernice Zaft-Gibbons wasn’t over it. Waves of grief and anger would suddenly hit her, particularly around birthdays and anniversaries. It was especially difficult as her relationship with her mother hadn’t alw...

Hafid James was optimistic when he took the stage for a bodybuilding competition in Mexico in 2013. He’d won the event just a year prior and believed he’d put in enough work to take home another trophy. Things didn’t go as planned. He placed fifth...

Nurse Rebecca Ronaldson thought there was nothing more exhausting than an Emergency Room late shift. Then she had a baby. As a sleep-deprived mother, she put on winter woollies forgetting it was summer. She put groceries that belonged in the fridge...

Latisha Lister-Burgess will likely be forever grateful that she decided to get fit. She believes it sparked her boyfriend Charles Burgess’s wedding proposal in 2013, and led to her getting pregnant earlier this year. “It made me feel so powerful in e...

Edward “Donnell” Ivy’s hips started failing him when he was 9. By the time he reached university, he would often suffer terrible pain that would put him in hospital for weeks. Then the crisis hit. The then 23-year-old was on duty as a resident paedia...

Eleven yoga instructors teaching a variety of styles in a dedicated studio. Lucky Elephant Yoga is a first for the Island. Owners Tali Gabai-Maiato and Alex Hasselkuss were long-time yoga enthusiasts who’d struggled to find their ideal setting in B...

Gretchen Conyers realised she was different once she started elementary school. It was hard to pay attention and stay organised and she couldn’t read at the same level as her friends. She received a formal diagnosis at eight — attention deficit hype...

An infomercial may have saved Devoye Darrell’s life. She was suffering from heartburn and bloating. When doctors couldn’t diagnose the problem, she chalked it up to menopause. “I ignored it, but in my heart I knew something was wrong,” the 58-year-ol...