How well are you taking care of yourself these days?
I could say I have had a full life so far…born and breed in Brazil…I left when I was 21…first one of a huge extended family to leave without a plan…
Unless you can call having a Spanish passport and €1000 a plan? 🤦🏼♀️
Looking back my plan was very simple…I had a deep desire to prove to everyone you could create a life on my own terms…even though I was a woman…👩🎤
Coming from a chauvinistic culture, that was a big statement at the time…
I went to Spain first, then I lived 3 years in Belgium, 4 years in England…went traveling with my boyfriend at the time, husband now through Central and South America…ended up in New Zealand…had 2 kids and 3 years ago, we moved to Brisbane.😅
We moved to Brisbane for my daughter’s health, she had asthma in New Zealand. She was cured when we moved to Brisbane but then I got cancer…
Bowel cancer Stage 3 to be more precise😔
My KPIS for the day went very quickly from how many placements I could make in my recruitment role to
what I was going to eat to heal my body…
what I was going to listen to help my mind…
and what I was going to do to help my soul…
all of this wasn’t actually too hard for me….
BUT what it was hard to learn was…
~to be vulnerable
~to ask for help
~to be dependant on my husband
~to count on family and friends to help us…
I had to learn to climb up from the deepest hole I could have ever dug myself into…
Somewhere along my life, I thought to myself I was invincible…
it turned out…I wasn’t…and I am not…
And ya know, it wasn’t easy…
I had to work hard…
I had to acknowledge my mistakes…
I had to accept responsibility and learn how to get to know myself…
and face my worst fears…
I had to learn how to forgive not only others but myself too.😊
Now life looks very different…
2 years after my diagnosis, I feel the healthiest and happiest I have ever been…
I am continuously working on my physical, mental and spiritual health…I swore I would never take my health for granted anymore…
I am living up to that promise with every breath I breathe, E V E R Y S I N G L E D A Y
Recently I left my 10 years recruitment career to focus on my business –
I am now a Wellness and Lifestyle coach.
I help cancer patients to regain control of their health physically, mentally and spiritually by making small changes that compound into a massive impact on their lives.
I believe we can learn from scientific research and we can learn from experiences, our own and the experience of others too…
I have read countless books….I have listened to podcasts, YouTube videos, Ted Talks, anything body, mind and health related…anything that could help me to heal, create a new body, a new mind and a new life after my cancer diagnosis.
I knew that whatever I did up to the moment of my cancer diagnosis was killing me and I needed some drastic changes…
The internal work is where it all begins….I mean not only physically but mentally too – health is a ‘360-degree’ gig…you need to look at all aspects of your life…one by one…
And through my understanding we are experiencing a health crisis…
~most people are not fit and healthy
~chronic diseases numbers including cancer are on the rise in every country in the world
~heart and lung diseases, cancer and diabetes are the world’s largest killers, with an estimated 38 millions deaths annually
~the major risk factors are tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and the harmful use of alcohol
ALL THINGS WE CAN CONTROL right?
And this is what we are doing about it….
~we are still being bombarded and falling for foods that create disease
~we live a lifestyle that doesn’t promote a healthy body and mind
~we feel powerless because we think being healthy is really hard work
~we don’t want to invest on our health because when it comes to health , everything seems expensive right?
If you want to know how you can turn your health around….you need to take action…and your first action could be get in touch with me.
I know right, scary…and it takes courage but if I changed my health around, I believe you can do it too.
