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    OWNING HER STORY

    Sep 28, 2021 4 minutes
    By Samantha Stevenson
    Illustration by
    Alina Kotliar / iStock / Getty Images Plus

    EXPERT ADVICE ON LIVING A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER LIFE

    JOANNA HAYDON KNEW something was wrong, but she couldn’t figure out what it was. Neither could doctors. For two years, she had excruciating stomach pains and food intolerance. She cut out dairy and then gluten. Eventually, a colonoscopy revealed the cause: a tumor.

    “Not one time did I think I had cancer,” says Haydon, an attorney for the Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court and instructor with indoor cycling gym CycleBar. “It didn’t even cross my mind.”

    In May 2019, at

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