Taking Charge of our Healing
‘It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.’ – Rumi
If someone interprets my message as blame instead of as empowerment, I think that deep down they blame themselves and see my message through their own ‘blame filter.’ I don’t blame anyone and I will not carry that baggage for anyone. I do think poor choices we make can contribute to our failing health. Everything we do that contributes to a toxic load stresses our immune system and plays a role in our ability to defend against cancer and other dis-ease states. But blame is a negative emotion and serves no one. Focus on the good news that you can control what goes in your body, avoid blockages to healing, and help your body heal. The good news is that you can assess your options and choose your path. I strongly encourage you to take charge of your healing.
In 2012, ‘science’ gave me two weeks to live. 2013, they gave me three. In 2019, they gave me weeks again. Lucky for me, I went beyond. Science considers me an impossibility. I make doctors and scientists uncomfortable by my very existence. Because they can’t explain me. Rather than study me, they prefer to stick to failed paradigms and pretend I don’t exist. Science has no cure for cancer. Doctors are good mechanics if you break something. They totally suck at treating chronic disease because their paradigm of healing is flawed. And because science is the new religion, it doesn’t occur to them to think outside the box and use the scientific method outside the box. I believe in the scientific method. Unfortunately it is subject to the human frailties of those performing it… ego, greed, ignorance, and dogma.
Yes, I believe in empirical science. Yes, scientific studies of human subjects presented in peer-reviewed medical journals are the gold standard…performed in scientifically acceptable circumstances by well-trained, humble, ethical scientists with good intentions and with in-depth review by their peers. But absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. When scientific proof isn’t available, I reserve the right to go off road and discover my own science. I am a measly sample size of one. But I am alive against all odds and scientists and doctors don’t have an explanation. And I reserve that right for you. Because I believe in you. I believe in your ability to consult your body, find your path, and assemble and empower your team. And I believe in your ability to heal yourself.
It all begins with anecdotal stories. Anecdotal -> in vitro (glass, as in the lab) -> in vivo (live, as in animals) -> clinical trial (humans). Once an in vivo study is completed with successful results, the next step is generally a clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy in humans. The whole process takes several years. When you have been given weeks to live, you don’t have time to wait for that clinical trial that is just a gleam in some scientist’s eye. If I feel confident that safety will not be compromised and a potential treatment is available to me that might help me and not interfere with other treatments, I figure, “Why not try it?” I monitor myself very closely to be sure that it isn’t causing me harm and to see if there is some sort of improvement.
Like a boxing champion, I must constantly defend my NEAD title. They scan me more than I’d like and they constantly freak out and tell me that I have a new brain metastasis and are anxious to schedule new radiation treatments to my brain… something you don’t want to do unnecessarily. Each time, I take the images home and look at them myself on my computer. You can do this, it’s not hard. And each time, I have identified that they are in a spot where I had radiation and so are probably scar tissue. Or that it is an existing spot and has always been there and is more likely an implant from an alien abduction (which would explain a lot of things LOL).
The important lesson is that one must play a diligent and active role in one’s own healing path. My doctors are very good at their jobs. But the reality is that they have thousands of patients, my file is several inches thick, and I’ve had dozens of scans in 7 facilities in four different states. Frankly, no one would know which scans to compare but me.
No one will care more about your survival than you. And no matter how wonderful the healers on your team are… you’ve got to be driving the bus. Examine your scans and reports. Ask questions. Your higher healing self subconsciously knows the path you must take, better than anyone else. Gather as much info as you can, meditate, ask your body for answers, listen to the responses, and follow your intuition. You didn’t come this far to only come this far. I believe in you!
You have knowledge of your body.
They have a body of knowledge.
— Christiane Northrup, MD
This post is from Book 2 of my Thrive Tribe Series, What I Did and Do and Why, a naturopathic protocol that helps me to survive and thrive, available from the bookstore, starting at $7. The book will be posted sequentially in its entirety on this blog, once a week. Subscriptions are free.
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