My journey,
I walked out of the door of the clinic in January 2022, the air was sharp and cool and I remember sitting in my car trying to understand what I was feeling. I rubbed my arm gently, the mini bandage still in place from the picc line and looked back over the year I had just had.
In December 2020 I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, right bang in the midst of my peri menopause and I was floored. My nervous system went into over drive of panic and it was only through the love of the community around me that I found balance again. They reminded me of who I was and kept me on track.
I went through the requisite treatment plan using both allopathic and alternate medicine and blogged about it all. The quiet listening shiatsu practitioner became very transparent and vulnerable, as much to meet the audience of supporters as to recover her voice.
I came through that year with many ups and downs, and on that January day as I sat in the car digesting the news of my remission I started to understand that I had put myself through my own personal process of healing using the traditional medicine tools that I had used for so long with my clients. I began to realise how much my shiatsu body work sessions had evolved into mentoring sessions over the years, with heaps of videos and nutritional advice and more.
Daily during my recovery I did Qi Gong and developed other energy based exercises. I put to use the nutritional knowledge I had and reformulated my diet. I looked my old trauma in the face and found compassion for myself. I spent hours doing relaxation techniques, with breath, yoga nidra, mindfulness. I found my inner artist and writer. In short I became my own client and mentor, who was dealing with both menopause and cancer.
With regards to the cancer there is no magic formula to make it end. I was lucky. Every day I live in gratitude that I am alive.
Working with women like myself going through major health issues, loss and menopause is something I am passionate about. These cycles of life may seem long and never ending when we are traversing them, but they do pass. And as they do, they reshape us if we allow them to.
As a society we seem to have forgotten how to traverse the transition times. Let me help you remember your golden thread.
I walked out of the door of the clinic in January 2022, the air was sharp and cool and I remember sitting in my car trying to understand what I was feeling. I rubbed my arm gently, the mini bandage still in place from the picc line and looked back over the year I had just had.
In December 2020 I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, right bang in the midst of my peri menopause and I was floored. My nervous system went into over drive of panic and it was only through the love of the community around me that I found balance again. They reminded me of who I was and kept me on track.
I went through the requisite treatment plan using both allopathic and alternate medicine and blogged about it all. The quiet listening shiatsu practitioner became very transparent and vulnerable, as much to meet the audience of supporters as to recover her voice.
I came through that year with many ups and downs, and on that January day as I sat in the car digesting the news of my remission I started to understand that I had put myself through my own personal process of healing using the traditional medicine tools that I had used for so long with my clients. I began to realise how much my shiatsu body work sessions had evolved into mentoring sessions over the years, with heaps of videos and nutritional advice and more.
Daily during my recovery I did Qi Gong and developed other energy based exercises. I put to use the nutritional knowledge I had and reformulated my diet. I looked my old trauma in the face and found compassion for myself. I spent hours doing relaxation techniques, with breath, yoga nidra, mindfulness. I found my inner artist and writer. In short I became my own client and mentor, who was dealing with both menopause and cancer.
With regards to the cancer there is no magic formula to make it end. I was lucky. Every day I live in gratitude that I am alive.
Working with women like myself going through major health issues, loss and menopause is something I am passionate about. These cycles of life may seem long and never ending when we are traversing them, but they do pass. And as they do, they reshape us if we allow them to.
As a society we seem to have forgotten how to traverse the transition times. Let me help you remember your golden thread.
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