Leading to my cancer diagnosis ā when I say leading I mean a whole year previous to my cancer treatment, I was:
šExhausted beyond I had ever been ā even when I was breastfeeding my kids, I wasnāt as exhausted
šMy hair was falling like crazy and it was very thin
šIron deficient
šNot present with my family as I would like to be (irritable, short tempered etc)
šFor the first time in my life I had irregular bowel movements
šTaking vitamins hoping to get my energy back
šHaving terrible sleep
šStressed out to the bone at work and about life in general
šQuestioning why wasnāt my body able to operate like when I was younger ā by the way I was only 38 years so not that old right?š
šGetting constant coughs and cold
šGetting recurrent cold sores
But instead of listening to these signs (and many more), I was sitting on Number 1. No, not me
As I thought to myselfā¦
š¤I think I might have IBS ā easy way out right, something that it didnāt sound very seriousā¦.
š¤¦āāļøI will NEVER have anything serious, especially CANCER ā no joke I never allowed myself to google cancer symptoms because I never thought I would be a candidate for it
š¤·āāļøI have always had great health (this is a complete lie I somehow told myself:
o As a kid, I was extremely allergic to dust, mould, etc and I spent most of my childhood sneezingā¦I took conventional medication and homeopathy medication but it never worked,
o As a young adult, I developed asthma and couldnāt go to anybodyās house who had a cat as I would stop breathing within 1 hour,
o I had an ectopic pregnancy before my first child and almost died in the process. Ended up loosing a fallopian tube,
o I had gestation diabetes with my second child.
So good health huh??? Not so sure about itā¦
So I kept pushing myself, my body until my body said STOPā¦.ENOUGH IS ENOUGHā¦
I had an emergency surgery that removed my tumour in the bowel and one month later, I had to start chemotherapy. I had to have 12 cyclesā¦
The chemotherapy I had is called 5FUā¦.the people who believe in natural healing etc called this chemotherapy
ā5 feet underāā¦.
needless to say I was in for one hell of a rideā¦.
I went from sitting at…
NUMBER 1. NO, NOT MEā¦. to
NUMBER 2. WELL MAYBE?…..to
NUMBER 3. SO OK, WHAT DO I DO NOW?
In a matter of 2 weeksā¦.as the harsh reality of having between 70-90% survival hit me on the faceā¦.
Jumping from
NUMBER 3. SO, OK, WHAT DO I DO NOW?….to
NUMBER 4. OK, LETāS DO THIS!
Happened in another 2 weeks then I started my journey to changing everything about my lifeā¦.
I became obsessed about health, about creating a health body and mind, about survivingā¦
I read books, listened to everything I could find on body, mind, body and mind connection and slowly I would apply things to my daily routine.
ONE TINY SHIFT AT A TIME
These tiny shifts compounded into MASSIVE IMPACT on my health todayā¦
and I am now sitting at
NUMBER 5. ITāS POSSIBLE!
Deep inside, I have this dream that I can empower people to change their habits:
ā
before that daring diagnosis
ā
before they get really sick
ā
before they become dependant on medication and doctors
ā
before they loose what they are taking for granted.
As I spoke to my GP about my dream (I love my GP by the way), she explained to me the 5 stages of behaviour changes that she learned at med school.
She told me when people are at NUMBER 1, there is no point in talking to them about it as they donāt want to listen.
Think about last time you told someone that stop smoking was a good idea huh?
It turns out that until we are ready to do something about it, we donāt do anything about it.
As simple as thatā¦
So I started thinking about what could I have said to myself in that year before my diagnosis that could have helped me to changeā¦
What could I have said to myself that it would have made me wake up?
And this is what I came up with:
š®It is not normal to feel exhausted all the timeā¦.
šSomething else must be going on for you to have a continuous iron deficiency even though you are taking iron supplements and eating red meat 3 times per weekā¦
šIt is not ok for you to be stressed all the time about work and lifeā¦
šSleep is really important for our overall health and if you are not sleeping well, you need to find out whyā¦
š©It is not normal to be catching every cough and cold and getting recurrent cold soresā¦
šVitamins are not magic pills unless you work on your finding out the root cause, they are not going to solve your problemsā¦
šIf your bowel is not working properly, you need to find out why as your bowel is your second brainā¦
This is my message to you todayā¦.
if you are feeling something is not right and you have to make changes but don’t know where to start…
If you have tried making changes but couldn’t…
I am not going to say, your story will end up like mineā¦
What I will say is…
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR STORY FROM NOW ONā¦
ONE TINY SHIFT AT A TIME….
that will compound into MASSIVE IMPACT.