When I was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, I decided very early on that I wanted to be as involved as possible in my own healing. I knew the medical treatment was important, but I also felt there were many other areas I could support at the same time, including mindset, food, stress, emotional […]
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When I first read the itinerary from Camino Women, an Australian-based travel company specialising in women’s walking adventures, I thought, This sounds incredible. A 14-day hiking journey with 14 women over 50 from Australia and NZ, Yanni our Greek guide and an adventure through Athens and four Greek islands. Climbing mountains. Following ancient trails. Exploring
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This week in our Radical Remission group, we found ourselves talking about other inspiring books that have shaped our journeys… and this was one that came up for me. The Secret to Healing Cancer is a book that has always given me a real sense of peace in my own healing journey. Not because it
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What Neuroscience Taught Me About My Own Healing For many years medicine separated the mind from the body. The brain was thought to be responsible for our thoughts and emotions, while the body was treated more like a physical machine that occasionally malfunctioned. But the work of neuroscientist Candace Pert helped change that understanding.
Di Foster is from Christchurch, and was diagnosed in 2003, when she was just 31 years old with an aggressive form of breast cancer in her right breast (stage 3, infiltrating ductal carcinoma, HER2 positive). With classic Di humour, she remembers: My surgeon said, “Di, we’ve got a bit of a problem. We’ve got quite
Yvette was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. Like many people, she trusted the medical path laid out for her and did everything she was advised to do. This included chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, further surgery, and hormonal therapy, which she was told would protect her from the cancer returning. In 2022, the cancer spread
Recently, someone left a comment on one of our posts about the upcoming Radical Remission 2-Week Workshop that Jenny and I are running next month. They said: “People with cancer need proper medical treatment — not workshops run by people trying to make money from their situation.” At first, I felt that familiar tightening in
That’s something I hear often from participants in my Radical Remission™ workshops here in New Zealand. When you’re navigating cancer, it’s natural to focus on the physical — food, supplements, and treatments (whether conventional or integrative). I’ve been there too. It feels like the obvious place to start. But what many don’t realise — and
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