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Why have healthy habits?

Eating healthy

Buying good quality food (yes it is expensive)

Exercising everyday

Saying no to alcohol

Not eating processed meats (Processed meats are directly link to Colon cancer – think salami, ham, cured meats etc)

Meditating

Forgiving

Letting go of my anger addiction

Letting go of my scarcity mindset

Work on my stress management everyday

Leave my comfort zone everyday

Go to bed early every night so I can do it all over again

Well…

Uhh….Yes…

The alternative was

Dreading to wake up each day

Feeling physically exhausted in the morning already

Giving my family (kids and husband) the worst of me

Feeling unhappy

Feeling overwhelmed and angry

Feeling life was hard and challenging

Feeling empty and mentally exhausted

If your life is like scenario 2, you should google it

“burnout symptoms”

Because that is what it will say…

I know right!

I would have said to that..

𝘕𝘢𝘩….𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘵

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺

Then Stage 3 Bowel Cancer diagnosis woke me for what was worthy living…

Not surviving…

Not dragging myself through each day…

Whilst I thought everybody else was doing the same…

And it was normal

These days I think…

𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁….

𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆….

𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲?

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀…

𝗧𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄, 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹

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How many diets have you tried?

𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙?

𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜?

𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚?

𝘼𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮?

Yes I have been there…

Man…I remember when I used to wake up before my cancer diagnosis…

Already on flight and fight mode…

Thinking ” Here we go again”😩

Is that candidate going to accept that job?

Is that client going to come back to me today?

Have the kids got their costume for the school event day today?

Shit I am late…

Shit I need to get to work…

and the race started…

No time to eat…

Sometimes I would cycle to work…

8 km on an empty stomach exhausted growing a cancer inside me😉

Only a badass can do that😂

or maybe a dumbass😜

Joke aside…I should say…

Only someone who doesn’t put her needs first can do that…

Only someone who is so disconnected to her body can do that…

Only someone who doesn’t take responsibility for her own life can do that…

Only someone who has been lost for way too long can do that…

yes that was me🙋🏼‍♀️

It is crazy how much I pushed myself…

And it is even more crazy to think I thought I wouldn’t suffer any consequences…

I was playing the lottery each day with my life…

Wasting my life away…

With too much stress…

too much anger…

resentment…

too much worry…

Until I hit a wall…

“𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟑 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝟔 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲…

𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭?

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬?

𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐫…

𝐍𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝…”

The amazing doctor who saved my life and peformed the most perfect emergency surgery ever…

Took the tumour out, rejoined my bowel perfectly (without needing to attach a poo bag in my belly)

Left me with that piece of news…😥

That changed my entire life…

I started my healing from where I was…

My physical body needed emergency attention…

And tackling my emotional state from a place of exhaustion would have been futile…

As I started my journey from recovering from the emergency surgery I had to go through…

to starting the chemo treatment…

Food became my medicine…😋

I developed a different relationship with food…

From chemo session to chemo session my body kept coming back up…

I changed my diet slowly as I took my kids and husband in the journey with me…

I am proud to say that I was able to finished 12 sessions of chemo feeling stronger than I started…

My kids and husband eat the same diet as I do…🙌🏼

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