I can remember writing my first cancer newsletter like it was yesterday. And now it is the 25th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month? 25 years dancing with this disease? (And, incidently,though I am still not big on those pink ribbons I did succumb to all the pink here).
To my cancer sisters-I embrace & love you all. You may not have chosen to join this club, but it will always be a part of who you are. The day my doctor told me I had breast cancer; I did not know that it would change my life. FOREVER. Early this month I found Art beCAUSE, a new grassroots
organization started to help eradicate environmental breast cancer.
Statistics show that only 5-10% of cancer is hereditary, the rest, other causes, though recent research shows that most can be attributed to our environment. Today, all of us need to accept the fact that we have become the breeding ground for disease. The levels of toxicity in our bodies & on this planet have caused an increase in not only cancer, but auto-immune diseases. Daily chemical exposure has left our bodies in a state of disharmony.
During this 25th Anniversary month, make the commitment to decrease your own toxicity. Drink lots of clean water, eat your veggies, exercise, avoid preservatives & synthetics, use non toxic household products, & eliminate as many plastics from your life as you can.
We can choose to be affected by the world, or we CAN affect the world.
Did any of us ask to be part of the crazy, turned-upside down world of cancer? No, but I found a way to embrace & accept this illness, and make some necessary changes-to find my own truth. Cancer gave me the freedom to find all the parts of the real me (extra weight, grey frizzy hair, scars, tattoos & all).
And that hole where they cut into my chest? It's filled with love.
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