Leading to my cancer diagnosis – when I say leading I mean a whole year previous to my cancer treatment, I was:
👎Exhausted beyond I had ever been – even when I was breastfeeding my kids, I wasn’t as exhausted
👎My hair was falling like crazy and it was very thin
👎Iron deficient
👎Not present with my family as I would like to be (irritable, short tempered etc)
👎For the first time in my life I had irregular bowel movements
👎Taking vitamins hoping to get my energy back
👎Having terrible sleep
👎Stressed out to the bone at work and about life in general
👎Questioning why wasn’t my body able to operate like when I was younger – by the way I was only 38 years so not that old right?😁
👎Getting constant coughs and cold
👎Getting 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 myself…
🤔I think I might have IBS – easy way out right, something that it didn’t sound very serious….
🤦♀️I will NEVER have anything serious, especially CANCER – no joke I never allowed myself to google cancer symptoms because I never thought I would be a candidate for it
🤷♀️I 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 sneezing…I took conventional medication and homeopathy medication but it never worked,
o As a young adult, I developed asthma and couldn’t go to anybody’s 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 it…
So I kept pushing myself, my body until my body said STOP….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH…
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 cycles…
The chemotherapy I had is called 5FU….the people who believe in natural healing etc called this chemotherapy
“5 feet under”….
needless to say I was in for one hell of a ride….
I went from sitting at…
NUMBER 1. NO, NOT ME…. to
NUMBER 2. WELL MAYBE?…..to
NUMBER 3. SO OK, WHAT DO I DO NOW?
In a matter of 2 weeks….as the harsh reality of having between 70-90% survival hit me on the face….
Jumping from
NUMBER 3. SO, OK, WHAT DO I DO NOW?….to
NUMBER 4. OK, LET’S DO THIS!
Happened in another 2 weeks then I started my journey to changing everything about my life….
I became obsessed about health, about creating a health body and mind, about surviving…
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 today…
and I am now sitting at
NUMBER 5. IT’S POSSIBLE!
Deep inside, I have this dream that I can empower people to change their habits:
✅before that daring diagnosis
✅before they get really sick
✅before they become dependant on medication and doctors
✅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 don’t 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 don’t do anything about it.
As simple as that…
So I started thinking about what could I have said to myself in that year before my diagnosis that could have helped me to change…
What could I have said to myself that it would have made me wake up?
And this is what I came up with:
😮It is not normal to feel exhausted all the time….
🙄Something 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 week…
🙄It is not ok for you to be stressed all the time about work and life…
🙁Sleep is really important for our overall health and if you are not sleeping well, you need to find out why…
😩It is not normal to be catching every cough and cold and getting recurrent cold sores…
🙄Vitamins are not magic pills unless you work on your finding out the root cause, they are not going to solve your problems…
😏If your bowel is not working properly, you need to find out why as your bowel is your second brain…
This is my message to you today….
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 mine…
What I will say is…
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR STORY FROM NOW ON…
ONE TINY SHIFT AT A TIME….
that will compound into MASSIVE IMPACT.