June 2010 I was diagnosed with stage 3 TNBC aged 46. A mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and lymphoedema followed rapidly afterwards! Good news arrived with a successful DIEP flap reconstruction in January 2012 and finally yesterday I booked in for a nipple and eye-brow tattoo ( my eye-brows only partially returned after the chemo) - hurray!
The debilitating treatment meant I was unable to rely on my normal forms of stress release ( running, cycling & a glass of wine or two!). So I began to read, asking myself why I thought I might have cancer? I was introduced to the law of attraction, through a book called 'The Secret' by Rhonda Bryne. I became fascinated by the power of our thoughts and how often we inadvertently attract things into our lives without being aware of it. Our everyday life is guided by our core beliefs, which often we do not question, until something like cancer comes along.
I made some very dramatic decisions in my personal life shortly after my treatment ended, holding the belief that I could turn my life around, I could succeed in life in areas I had previously given up on. The book 'The Biology of Belief' by Bruce Lipton, gave me great courage too.
June 2011 Macmillan Cancer Support highlighted the benefits of physical activity on reducing treatment side effects and reducing the chances of recurrence. As a personal fitness trainer I was amazed by their findings, but also aware that those who would benefit most from exercise are often to exhausted to even contemplate it. For this reason I founded an organisation launched earlier this year which unites the benefits of physical activity with guided visualisation/imagery, to improve responses to conventional treatment, offering hope and belief to people on their journey
Marlow, United Kingdom
