Leah Adams: Self Image and Scars, Mental Health, Marathons and Metastatic Melanoma

Leah Adams shares her personal journey with melanoma, how it intertwines with her dad’s cancer story and how cancer brought them together. She also discusses how melanoma temporarily took running from her and navigating new ways to manage her mental health while processing a cancer diagnosis. Leah talks about her own regrets with tanning and shares how she’s learned to overcome society’s definition of beauty that played a role in using tanning beds to start with. She also shares how running has become more than just a passion and an outlet and instead a way for her to give back to the melanoma community that helped her feel understood and less alone.

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