THRIVER SOUP

It all began for me in the oncologist’s office in 2009. I got the terrifying message … there was no cure for the highly undifferentiated uterine sarcoma. I sat in shock. I didn’t even know what to ask. She told me I had end-stage cancer with the most aggressive type of cells. What do you do? Sound familiar? Remember thinking, if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or any debilitating disease, that it feels like a death sentence? The first thing that hit me was—I’m a mother. What would happen to my kids? With all due respect, the doctors didn’t have much to offer. I knew I needed to do everything I could to survive. That meant I needed to use everything the doctors knew about, and much more, just to stay alive.

So, I began my journey through two years of chemotherapy and three major surgeries. The cancer was relentless; it kept coming back. After my final lung surgery, guess what news I got? Get my affairs in order. Like my life was over. Yet during those two years of treatment, I also went through an enormous personal makeover. I unwittingly did what many stage-4 cancer survivors have done to go into remission—-a process I now call the ABCs of healing. I had changed my attitudes, my behaviors, and made major life choices. This brought healing to my heart and my mind… and my body followed. I’ve been in radical remission since November 2011, free of evidence of disease and free of cancer treatment. My friends encouraged me to use my journalism background to write a book to assist others. That’s how “Thriver Soup: A Feast for Living Consciously During the Cancer Journey” was born. It is endorsed by physicians and nurses, contains more than 250 healing solutions, and is a best seller. It is providing options and genuine hope to others.