Cancer Update – Testimonial

I shared this on my social media outlets and neglected to post it here until now….

🍂🍁Happy Thanksgiving!🍁🍂

TESTIMONY!

I have so much to be thankful for this year. I’ve been through so much with my health, especially these past few months, that it’s only by God’s grace that I’m still alive. I give all glory to God for giving me the strength to get through it all and for healing me from the inside out.
I was diagnosed for the second time with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer, and was getting ready to start treatment in March 2021. The PICC line they put into my arm to administer the chemo and immunotherapy caused a blood clot in my arm and it had to be removed. Later that week I started to lose feeling in my legs and the ability to urinate. I went to the ER and was hospitalized. It ended up being that there was a tumor pressing on my spine, causing the weakness in my legs. During my hospital stay I started radiation on my spine and ended up doing a total of 10 sessions. I was using a walker to get around as my body continued to get stronger.


I started treatment as well as continuing with my natural healing protocol which I had started before treatment. My natural protocol was adopted from Chris Beat Cancer’s Square One program ( https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/ ) and it consisted of raw foods, juicing, fasting, using a sauna, coffee enemas and various supplements and elixirs as well as healing meditations from Dr. Joe Dispenza.


Right after my last treatment, the medi-port that the doctors inserted in my chest to administer the medication was pushing itself out of my chest. It’s like as if my body was saying, “I’m pushing you out because I don’t need you anymore!” At the end of my treatment I did a PET scan in June which showed no tumors left except for a small 1 cm one which was much bigger before and was eating into the bottom of my left rib. I decided to forgo more sessions of treatment and just do the Square One program hardcore and shrink that tumor on my own. My oncologist flat out told me the natural route doesn’t work and that “cancer is smarter than that”. Despite his dismissive response, I knew that anything is possible, so many have healed naturally and I just continued with my plan.


I was going great with being disciplined with the program until I started to feel Covid like symptoms in August. I did two Covid tests and they were both negative, but a. X-ray that I did ended up showing pneumonia. I had a violent cough and at times it was really hard to breathe, like I was just gasping for air. I went to the ER to be hospitalized for the second time this year. I was in there for a week where they gave me tons of antibiotics. I left feeling a little better but still with the awful cough, and the week at home after the hospital stay left me feeling worse and worse as the days passed.
The day before my birthday, August 26th, I admitted myself again to the hospital (my 3rd hospital stay for the year). I felt so awful and tired. My body had been working so hard just for me to breathe, my heart rate was continuously rapid, and I was left feeling so exhausted. I did tons of tests, was pumped with a lot of medication and was using various respirator devices but I had to end up being intubated because it was becoming more difficult to breathe on my own. I actually welcomed intubation because of how physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted I had become. I was intubated for five days and then was awake for just a few, because I was trying to use the respirator devices but it’s like my body was still very weak and I couldn’t breathe properly. They had to intubate me for a second time for six days. During intubation my body went through some crazy things. I had developed blood clots in my arms and legs and I even had a stroke on my right frontal lobe. Thank the Lord that the stroke didn’t effect me (the doctors said the area that the stroke was would’ve effected my personality). There was even a time during intubation where the doctors didn’t think they could take me out of it, and had to have the hard conversation with my family about life support and my last wishes.


By God’s grace I made it through being intubated and was slowly recovering in the ICU. Later on I did another CT scan which ended up showing multiple blood clots in my lungs (which explains a lot – the violent cough, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath). When you have cancer you’re more susceptible to getting blood clots. They ended up diagnosing all of this as acute and chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia. I ended up going to a rehab facility for over a month where I worked on getting my strength back, walking etc. I was away from home from Aug 26 – Nov 4.


All that time being hospitalized I kept worrying about what the cancer inside of my body was doing. I had been through such trauma and my immune system had been so weak, I was scared that what I was experiencing was more tumors or because of the cancer, but my oncologist didn’t see any of that on the scans I did in the hospital and kept saying this lung issue has nothing to do with the cancer. When I finished up at the rehab, and was back home I went for another PET/CT scan to see what that 1cm tumor was doing. I had my follow up with my oncologist to go over the scans just last week and I was nervous, but had a feeling of calm that things were going to be alright. I really didn’t want to have a bad report and have to be pumped with more drugs to clear up the cancer. I kept saying, “how much more can my little body handle”.


My oncologist comes in and examines my body for any concerning lumps (which he didn’t find any) and then starts to go over my scan. He’s comparing the one that I did in June to now and is pretty surprised by the results. He tells me that the 1cm tumor that was there in June is completely gone and that he’s not seeing anything light up that is cancerous! Even the blood clots in my lungs seem to have disappeared! I have the biggest sigh of relief and start to cry the happiest tears of my life. I felt like I had been to hell and back these past months and just having this good news left me feeling so light. I’m still in awe of everything…it’s truly like I was so worried about what the cancer is doing while I’m laid up in these hospital beds, and little did I know the cancer was SHRINKING! My oncologist couldn’t explain it because he said they didn’t treat me for cancer while I was hospitalized. Was it all of the natural protocol that I did before the hospitalization that shrunk the tumor? Was the tumor still there during my hospitalization and it just shrank on its own? How does a tumor shrink on its own especially under such intense circumstances? Since I’ve shared this news so many people have said to me that it seems like a miracle! I believe it, I believe that my God was healing me of the cancer under insane circumstances, “He can do all things, but fail”.
Right now my oncologist said that he doesn’t see me needing any treatment and to just come back in 2 months for some blood work and then we’ll see if I have to do any more scans. As far as the blood clots, I may have to be on some kind of blood thinner pill for the rest of my life because of my health history, but even with that I’m believing that it won’t be so. I am continuing to get stronger in my walking with a physical therapist and just overall stronger in my body. My heart rate has been much better than when I was in the hospital and my oxygen level has been very stable. I manifested leaving the rehab facility without oxygen as I said it just about everyday, “I don’t want to be going home on oxygen”. It was such a nuisance and so cumbersome and I’m so thankful I don’t have to depend on it. Going from barely being able to breathe on my own, struggling terribly with all the different oxygen masks to not having any oxygen on at all feels amazing!


I’m so thankful for making it through all of these challenges, and for everyone’s continued support. Your prayers, positive vibes, donations ( https://gofund.me/5bf23dd6 ) and love has been tremendous to my healing. Thank you so much, this is truly a special Thanksgiving!

Renèe’s Eczema Healing Testimony!

🌺My friend Zakiya from high school reached out to me awhile back with concerns about her daughter Renèe’s skin. I’m so glad that she’s doing so much better these days!🌈

You can scroll through to see her story and photos. She didn’t have many before photos, but the one that is shared you can see different discoloured patches on her belly. Zakiya was so gracious to send an email of support to another mother named Ibie who I’m helping with her two children experiencing eczema as well. I hope Reneè’s testimony can give you hope about healing baby eczema 🌸

***I’m not a medical professional but a wellness advocate, and through this website & social media platforms ( INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK ) people reach out to me and I offer support, advice and tips of what has helped me over the years (26 yrs of steroid use and now 9 yrs free of ts)☺️

Preventable: Protecting Our Largest Organ Documentary!

Have you seen the new documentary about eczema, topical steroid addiction and withdrawal? It’s called Preventable: Protecting Our Largest Organ and its a must watch and share! Briana has worked so hard at bringing this documentary to fruition and it’s awesome that we can give back for her efforts with the GoFundMe set up for her below! This documentary brought up so many emotions for me, it brought me back to the worst stages of my own topical steroid withdrawal process. There’s so much that the medical community needs to know about eczema and how dangerous these medications are to our health. I know that this doc is going to prevent so many from going down the awful path that thousands have gone down with these medications. This dis-ease is preventable, and steroids are not the answer, there are ways to naturally heal from the inside out…steroids only act as a band-aid and a temporary solution. Please watch, and share with anyone you know using steroids, who has eczema and those in the dermatology field. If you can, please donate to Brianna for all of her hard work and sacrifice. I see the passion that she put into this project and she deserves our support.

 

Click HERE to donate!!

Change Your Speech!

🌈Just thought of this today and wanted to share to give encouragement and a different perspective in the eczema recovery process.🌈

Having a positive, faithful mindset is so important when recovering from dis-ease. The body is so amazing at self healing, we just have to give it the right environment to thrive…alkaline plant based foods, hydration, sunlight, rest, exercise, loving words of affirmation and the right positive attitude. By saying faithful words we allow our subconscious to accept the idea that we WILL be free of dis-ease.

🌟Saying “I’m healing from eczema” tells our mind that the healing is taking place NOW! We must say the things that we want, call it into existence before it has been manifested…”I am healed”, “my skin is smooth, supple, healthy, wrinkle and symptoms free”…speak these words into existence over and over…train your mind to believe it before you see it! So when you talk to someone and they see symptoms showing up on your skin, instead of saying, “ I have eczema” say “I’M HEALING FROM ECZEMA”! Don’t own that dis-ease, stir up your faith and own the freedom of recovering from the dis-ease! 💚

#eczemaholistichealing

10 Years Cancer Free!

I can’t believe 10 years have passed since my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma stage 3b diagnosis! I thank God everyday that He brought me through, & stronger than ever, with a deep passion for natural healing🙏🏽.

I mark today as my 10th year cancer free, as this was the day that I completed my very last chemo treatment. I did 6 months of chemo, 2x a month. I try to not live with regrets, & I must admit, it’s something that I still struggle with even ten years later…the regret of not looking towards alternative routes of healing instead of using chemo (which my oncologist told me has a half life of 10-12 years in the body!). I WISH I had all of knowledge that I have now about healing from the inside out & I WISH I was in the right head space to do so. I just know in my gut that 23 years of topical steroid use for eczema at the time contributed to the cancer. Plus just not taking care of my health in general, eating terribly etc. Clearly in retrospect I would’ve done things much different, BUT I’ve learned that everything happens the way it should, in its own divine time, in its own way. Some background to my diagnosis…I was 23 years old, I had graduated college the year before, the stress of school really took its toll on my body & my skin & overall health was going downhill fast. It’s like I could feel it the moment I graduated…like I was just holding out the last couple of months, struggling to make it through. I didn’t know anything about stopping the steroids and looking towards natural routes of healing, I had no intention of living a healthy lifestyle…I became reclusive because of the way my skin looked as it was getting worse and it was hard for me to even look in the mirror, hence why I had no idea of the lump growing in my clavicle. It was only until I went for a regular check up with a new primary care doc did she point out the lump. Many needle biopsies at the ENT doc later which were inconclusive, then to surgery of the removal of the golf ball sized mass which then led to the diagnosis of cancer.

My world stopped, in disbelief I felt like once again my body was broken. I had a mediport put into my chest to administer chemo…which my body literally pushed out weeks later! It’s like my body was screaming to me that it didn’t want chemo, & to find another way! I then had to have multiple PICC lines in my arms to take the chemo (multiple because my skin continually got infected from the PICC lines). Thank the Lord I didn’t feel sick, not once during chemo & that I didn’t lose all of my hair, just some of it, & it came back thicker than before! Everyone told me “you’ll be stronger after all of this” & it’s so true! In times of fear, I’ve told myself “if I can get through cancer like a boss then I can get through anything!” Although it took me 3 more years to learn about the danger of topical steroids, within that time I was seeking a better way of living, which allowed me to gradually change my lifestyle to a healthier one. I continued to hunger for knowledge and when I learned about naturally healing eczema I knew it was the direction I needed to be in. If you are dealing with a health issue, and/or cancer I highly recommend looking into alternative treatments, using food as medicine. Become knowledgeable on all of the resources out there…look into the Gerson Therapy, movies like The Truth About Cancer, What the Health, Forks Over Knives, books like The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, and amazing doctors like Dr.Greger are all full of great info to get you on the right path. I now know of how amazing our bodies are at self healing, that anything is possible and we just need to give the body the right tools to help it heal.

I’m cancer free and I give all thanks to God for getting me through & for continuing to repair my body! 💙

Get Out in Nature<3

🌤🌿🌸Getting out in nature is so healing for the body and soul. Just having the warm sun on your skin, feeling the cool breeze and listening to the sounds of the birds and the wind can have such a calming and healing effect on us. 🌤🌿🌸

Saying healing mantras while closing your eyes and absorbing the sun rays is a wonderful routine one can do as well! 💛 I recently heard this mantra from a detox specialist and I want to share it with you all:

“I trust in my body. I listen to my body. I allow my body to heal.”

Your body doesn’t make any mistakes, it knows exactly what it needs to do to self-heal, we just have to give it the right tools to help it out! Always be loving and kind to yourself and only speak life into your body. Your positive thoughts alone can effect positive healing. Continue to envision your skin healthy, smooth and symptom-free and it WILL manifest 🙏🏽 I hope everyone has a great weekend! 🌼🌤🌿🌸

#eczemaholistichealing

Conqueror Eczema Academy Review!

Check out this awesome review that Cassie AKA The Naturalistic Nurse left for the Conqueror Eczema Academy! It has been great getting to know her and help her along in her healing journey. She has learned so much and has been a great source of encouragement for the other members in the coaching sessions. I love how determined and proactive she has been at healing her eczema and when you check out her BLOG you will get a chance to see her document her journey. You can check out her video review below and if you’d like to see more reviews from our other participants check it out HERE!

If you’d like to be apart of the wonderful community of eczema warriors and join the Conqueror Eczema Academy, click HERE. Abby and I will be holding our next session will start on the 31st of August!

 

 

 

 

New LIVE coaching session starting March 5th!

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be coaching alongside Abby of Prime Physique Nutrition for another round of (8-week) group LIVE coaching beginning on March 5th! I love being apart of this program and helping eczema sufferers get the support, encouragement and great info that they need on their healing journey. So many of our participants find that they have this sense of community when they join the calls and get to interact with the facebook group. It allows them to not feel so alone in this healing process and they get to connect with others all over the world going through the same struggles. When you sign up you will not only get to participate in the coaching sessions, but you’ll also have access to 50+ video teachings by a naturopath, skin experts, nutritionists, and a personal trainer, plus meal & exercise plans. Your body WILL heal, you don’t have to go through this alone, just believe in the amazing self-healing power that it has to restore and we’ll be able to give you the right tools to help! ❤

Click HERE to learn more about the program and how to sign up!

Check out some awesome reviews from a few of our past participants: 
I joined this group 2 years into TSW and I wasn’t sure what exactly I would gain from being here because I did as much research as I could going to practitioners, and doing things on my own but I was still suffering. I had seen little victories here and there but I needed something more. Surprisingly, I learned a lot of little things here and there from the modules and from people sharing on the live coaching calls. Implementing those small changes was a very big push into my healing journey. I’m finally seeing clear results that I haven’t seen in the last 2 – 2 1/2 years! I think it’s an awesome tool for anyone in any stage of their TSW journey. I thought I read every possible blog post to see what other things that I might be missing in my regimen but I’m really glad that I decided to join to be able to get to know Abby and Jen and all the people struggling with me. Just knowing there are other people going through the same struggle is comforting and empowering and knowing that we are rooting each other on as we’re all trying to get to the same goal. We have a “shared trauma” that helps us all to get through. Before this program I would research so much, and learn things on my own like avoiding certain foods, and doing certain things that would be good for the skin, but the biggest thing that helped was realizing how powerful your mindset is in the healing process. Using affirmations, and including your mind in the healing process really helped. That is something that I would not have known to look into on my own. When I’m looking at my skin I can now visualize what it will be like when it’s healed!
-Eiline – California, USA
From joining the program I find the most helpful thing for me is being able to talk to other people in similar positions. I find that to be the biggest help because you know that you’re not alone going through it and that there are others feeling, thinking and experiencing the same things. Also how you all have recommended all natural stuff, I think that’s so important. When I would have recommendations from Abby and Jen, I haven’t hesitated to go ahead and try them because I didn’t have to worry about side effects. I find you all so encouraging and I definitely want to thank you for that!
-Preeti – UK
Abby and Jen’s Conqueror Eczema Academy was really helpful with my journey going through life with eczema. I joined the group to help me take it to another level, to really be focused on it because doing it on my own I cheat here and there and using the groups it helped me to stay on track and it was motivational being on the group calls. I like how responsive Abby and Jen were, anytime we needed information they would put themselves readily available for us, answering any questions and concerns we may have. They did a good job guiding us into which direction in changing our lifestyle for the better. It’s not just the eczema, it’s just a symptom of what’s going on inside of our bodies. They are very informative of what needs to be done to cleanse our bodies and detox, to pretty much overall change our lifestyle and health. I’m really appreciative of these 8-weeks that I’ve gone through and I’ve learned a lot from the both of these coaches and it’s really set a lifestyle change for me to be motivated and to keep up the work. It’s given me a lot of guidance in terms of the right direction for my health. I’m happy that I’ve joined and I’m sure that anyone who joins this will find a lot of benefit from the coaches Abby and Jen.
-Clarence – California USA
Abby and Jen’s programme offered great support to help me get through difficult times in my journey towards better health and skin. It gave me the confidence to know that I am doing down the right path and to stay consistent in the actions I am taking to clear my eczema.
-James – Australia