FINDINGSA Stage IV Survivor’s Story

Chapter 1

Due Diligence

• Over 13,000 Diagnoses

• Over 6,000 Drugs

• Over 4,000 Medical/Surgical Procedures

• Over 65,000 Thoughts per 24 hrs.

System Overload

Eastern Practices

Meditation

Nutrition

AlternativeMedicine

UnsolicitedAdvice

Self-Study

Naturopathy

Western Medicine

Me

Dermatology

Medical Oncology

Surgical Oncology

Plastics

Naturopathy

Radiology

Consults

Discernment!

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An Evolving Story

• 9 surgeries

• Limb perfusion at MD Anderson (Houston)

• High dose interferon (29 of 30)

• Lymph nodes -> chest wall -> breast

• Stage II to Stage IV

Listening Like Never Before

• Judgment

• Attachment

• Resistance

Insert Bald Kathy Here

Embracing “What Is”

• Cancer Retreat (Harmony Hill)– Moving through grief

• Cell-Level Healing– Honing my intuition

• Returning of joy• Able to come off anti-

depressant meds

Attachment

Resistance

Judgment

Developing New Neuro-pathways

Vibrational Universe

• Beliefs, Prayers, Meds, etc…

• Everything is energy

• Water

Dr. Masaru Emoto

Cleaning Up My Energy

• Replace my cells with healthier ones

• Pay attention– What nurtures me?– What drains me?

• Preparing for the inevitable

• Letting go of the ultimate attachment

Synchronicity

• Things began to fall in place for me• My happiness was no longer contingent

upon – whether or not I had cancer– Whether or not I would die

• I had somehow come to the place of deciding to be happy regardless – It was my pivotal moment

Present Chapter

• Studies

• Ipilimumab

• Partial Remission

• ?

Staying Aligned

• Paying attention

• Environment

• Politics

Transformations• Aborigines• Living in the mystery and wonderment of

questions • What if we all came to appreciate the value of

those words in our everyday lives?• What if we knew we already have everything we

need?• What if our happiness was not contingent upon

our health?• How would that transform things for us?

The End

Just The

Beginning…

References/Recommendations

• “Cell-Level Healing” by Joyce Hawkes, PhD (Biophysics/Electron Microscopy)

• “Power VS Force” by David Hawkins, MD• “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton, PhD (Developmental

Biologist/Medical School Professor)• “A Year to Live” by Stephen Levine (Founder of New York City's

first hospice)• “Anger” by Thicht Nhat Hanh (Buddhist Monk and Nobel Peace

Prize Nominee)• “The Flowering of Human Consciousness” by Eckhart Tolle• “The Wisdom of No Escape” by Pema Chodron (Buddhist Nun)• “Truth Is a Pathless Land” by J. Krishnamurti (Spiritual Genius)• “The Universe Story” by Brian Swimme, PhD (Mathematical

Cosmology)