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Mission
Breathe
Again™
Mission
Breathe
Again™
My Cystic Fibrosis Runner Story
I've spent my life as a runner. From competing with high school athletes as an eighth grader, to earning a college scholarship, to rebuilding my fitness over and over after illness, setbacks, and hospitalizations — running with cystic fibrosis has never been linear.
"Running with CF has always been a yo-yo — getting strong, getting sick, starting again."
At times I went from being a top athlete to nearly last on my team. But I stayed in it long enough to rebuild — and eventually became MVP and competed at nationals.
"Resilience isn't running through pain. It's staying in the arena long enough for alignment to return."
The embarrassment was never about believing something was wrong with me. It was about the gap between how I already saw myself — normal, capable — and what I was afraid people would decide about me if they saw the treatments, the routines, anything that made CF visible.
What changed everything wasn't a new medication. It was running giving me proof — something other people could see — for an identity I'd already believed was true for a long time.
That's what changed how I showed up for my habits, my training, and my health.
"I don't hype myself up — I build proof. I need to feel it in my body first, in the day-to-day work, before I believe it."
I am originally a New Yorker but now live outside Boston with my husband Phil and our two dogs, Finnegan and Tank!
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