You are doing Life with Lex. Welcome to the podcast. And on today's episode, I am continuing our conversation all about how not to allow pain to shape your identity. You are not the most painful thing you have gone through stop allowing pain to shape your identity. And on today's episode, I'm actually opening up about a very painful area in my life and that is having sickle cell disease, and how I have to fight every single day for sickle cell disease not to be the totality of who I am.