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What is it Like to be Diagnosed with Cancer

Have you ever wondered?

There are millions of people who are diagnosed with cancer every year, and tons of us who live beyond our diagnosis. We have varying degrees of coping with our diagnosis. And there are many ways we get to hear the information.

I was one of the lucky ones who received my news from a loving, kind, compassionate doctor. I knew him for a long time. He was empathetic and had a plan. He was able to refer me to the right surgeons and doctors, and I am very blessed.

But I know a lot of people who don’t find out this way.

Sometimes, an email comes through with your lab results. Then, you’ve been diagnosed with some horrific disease without the benefit of a doctor to tell you.

Whether we find out with love and compassion or from a message on an answering machine, we have reactions. My reaction was to be ashamed and embarrassed. I wanted to keep the news a secret. To not tell anyone what was going on with me. I wanted to protect my family and prevent them from being sucked into this world of drama I felt I was about to create.

The first thing I did was drive to the lake front and walk the beach. I walked for a couple hours by myself trying to let the news sink in. It took me a couple of days before I ever told anybody.

I felt: shocked, dirty, ashamed, embarrassed, scared, and angry

Throughout my years of spiritual practice, I studied the law of attraction, and was familiar with the idea that what you focus on will get bigger. In the wake of my diagnosis as stage 3c ovarian cancer survivor, I twisted this law into blame. I started to assign responsibility, and decided I had done something to create my cancer. Then, I started to ask, Why?

This was counterproductive.

As an unplanned byproduct of my healing process, I actually became a Certified Life Coach. I studied the Universal Laws of Spirit. There were three laws that, in combination helped me redefine my perspective:

Law of Attraction – What we think about and what we pay attention to gets bigger.
Law of Deliberate Creation – If I’m thinking about something and it gets bigger, maybe I can consciously decide what I want to think about.
Law of Allowing – If I do my part, whatever happens, I trust that this is what’s supposed to be happening now and I try to stay out of my own way.

What these laws really address are how do I take care of my health? How do I create the life I want? How do I work with my doctors, oncologists and medical team, to create the healthy life I want. I can spend my life leaving things to chance, worrying endlessly about what is going to come next, or I can start talking about how I want things to be in my life.

That was a turning point for me.

So, if you were diagnosed with cancer, recently or a long time ago, and you are struggling to reclaim your life, there is help out here for you. There is support out here for you.

I think I can help you get started. The meditation mentioned in this video is no longer available, but you can get your own copy of The Survivors Manifesto: How I survived the No Hope Cancer and 37 Tools To Help You Heal by following this link.

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