I am reading Energy Medicine by Donna Eden. Last night I read this:
She came to see her healing crisis as a gift that opened her to a new sense of purpose.
I sat straight up in bed and said to myself “YES!!”
By way of background, I am a thyroid cancer survivor and a breast cancer survivor. I have never used those terms to describe myself; I don’t like the words. I don’t like to be defined by cancer, but I don’t know how else to bring the subject to the light of day. This admission about myself ties into the one of the purposes of my New Each Morning blog. I want to chronicle important ideas, strategies, thoughts I have had along the way.
In 2006, I learned that my thyroid was cancerous. I submitted to surgery and the recommended treatment of radioactive iodine with few questions. I just wanted to get my life back. Within a few months, I learned that living without a thyroid was more difficult than I could have ever imagined. In 2008, I hit rock bottom. I was anxious, my hair was falling out, I had developed problems with digestion. The list goes on.
I truly believe that I was divinely led to Dr. Denise, who practices applied kinesiology, a form of energy medicine. She brought me back from the abyss. But more on that later. I then received a diagnosis of breast cancer in the summer of 2011. A routine mammogram showed a cluster of three carcinomas in my right breast. Stage One, but one of the three was classified as “invasive”. In 9.2011, I had a lumpectomy followed by 37 radiation treatments.
My point today is to lay out that I have had two serious health challenges, and that I am fighting them with conventional medicine and with holistic medicine. Whereas I know that conventional medicine has its place and probably has indeed saved my life, I have come to see it as a dark and fearful path. Conversely, my holistic journey is pure sunshine.
She came to see her healing crisis as a gift that opened her to a new sense of purpose.