What I Did To Recover From Cancer & Chemotherapy
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This article expands on my other post: What Caused The Breast Cancer & My Radical Remission Healing Plan. I wanted to share what I did to recover post-cancer and from the side effects of chemotherapy.
1. Heal emotional wounds by learning to let go of guilt & shame of the past.
2. Become more aware of the circulating thoughts that do not serve me.
3. It finally occurred to me that I believed that being free of a sugar addiction was impossible. I used affirmations and visualization to remove mental blocks.
4. Follow a diet according to the Medical Medium. According to the Anthony William, eggs feed bacteria, viruses and cancer. For a while after the diagnosis, eggs were a staple, I ate them a few times a week. The tumor grew very fast, from one day to the next, I could feel and see the change.
5. Cut down on sugar. There were two options, quit cold turkey or ease out of sugar. Michael Pollen had said somewhere that if you make it yourself, you can eat as much sweets as you want. My plan was to stick to a few options for sweet treats: homemade vegan brownies, dark chocolate from Trader Joe’s, fruit and Nice cream (what I call dessert made from fruit and a Magic Bullet Dessert Blender).
6. I removed my dental amalgam mercury filling and took supplements to detoxify from heavy metals, ate cilantro regularly and took Hawaiian spirulina by Earthrise supplements.
7. Took amino acids according to the Diet Cure book by Julia Ross. The name is misleading and covers much more than diet like depression, PMS, chronic & adrenal fatigue, blood sugar, addiction and more. I felt sluggish, depressed and unmotivated. After I took 4 amino acids according to my Diet Cure questionnaire answers, I felt normal again within 2 days.
8. I question doing things that I don’t want to do. I tend to put others’ needs over mine. More and more, I put myself first. It hasn’t been easy and I have had backlash because of it but I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made for myself. I’m still working on putting myself over others first.
9. Honor the HSP in me. I’ve learned what it is to be a highly sensitive person a term coined by Elaine Aron. Her book “The Highly Sensitive Person” is insightful and has changed my life. The more I live in a way that respects those needs, the more I thrive.
Even though, all of this took a lot of time and effort, it’s completely worth it. These are things I continue to do in some form for the rest of my life. The silver lining of going through cancer is gaining knowledge that I can share to help other people struggling with their health through health coaching.