[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so it was 2011 I had just turned 31
years old and for the first time in my
life I felt like I was truly embracing
the essence of being a woman I was
learning how I truly was
I was excelling in my career as an
English teacher and I found what I
thought at the time to be true love
being in my 30s wasn’t so terrible and
everything seemed to be on a steady
upswing until life presented me with
circumstances that would forever turn my
world upside down it’s so unfortunate
that this has happened to you so young
one in five women with your diagnosis
will live to see five years you have a
15% chance of beating this are you going
to die how did you get this these are
just a few of the horrid things I had to
hear when life blindsided me with a
stage 4 incurable metastatic breast
cancer diagnosis nearly six and a half
years ago my body was riddled with
cancer and as hard as it was to hear
such things from medical professionals
family friends and strangers I made a
promise to myself that I was going to
beat this by any means necessary I would
be that one in five women to live to see
five years I would be in that 15 percent
six years of non-stop chemotherapy
induced menopause countless surgeries
and a few bouts with death are just a
few of the challenges that I’ve had to
face on this bridge for the first four
years the cancer was stable for the most
part but then came near five my life
expectancy and sure enough the cancer
returned with a vengeance devouring my
right breast and flooding both of my
lungs leaving me essentially breathless
this chemo that chemo nothing was
stopping it the one person that I
thought could save my life totally gave
up on me I’m sorry but my drugs just
aren’t working those would be the last
words that I would hear from my then
oncologist but I knew something just
wasn’t right the God within me my
intuition was literally screaming at me
with
manifested as panic attacks that were so
debilitating I literally spent an entire
summer indoors praying on my hands and
knees and trying to tap into this power
that I kept reading about and hearing
about on my spiritual journey supposably
we all had access to it so how how was I
gonna access this power more than ever I
needed God I needed answers and I needed
them quickly soon enough the answers and
messages and signs that I was so
desperately praying for started to
appear and I began to follow
I took the giant leap of faith believing
the most prestigious Cancer Center in
the whole entire world and found a new
Doctor Who through testing and biopsy
discovered that I had been misdiagnosed
no wonder I wasn’t responding to
treatment I was on all of the wrong
drugs for over four years I quickly
found a new oncologist I started the
correct treatment and slowly but surely
my circumstances started it started to
turn around what wonders being on the
right drugs will do fast-forward to
today
after a few more bouts with death I am
currently the strongest and healthiest I
have been and this almost seven year
journey cancer is hardly traceable in my
body I have defied every single odd
placed against me by staying in my truth
by believing myself and by following my
intuition and this intuition this
god-given power that I speak of is
within each and every single one of us
and it knows our truth and just like it
led me to uncover my misdiagnosis your
intuition also holds your truth I
encourage each and every one of you to
get to know this power to get tapped in
with this innate god-given magic that
lies within each and every one of us for
once you do anything is possible
anything even defeating something that
was supposed to kill you
thank you
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
so it was 2011 I had just turned 31
years old and for the first time in my
life I felt like I was truly embracing
the essence of being a woman I was
learning how I truly was
I was excelling in my career as an
English teacher and I found what I
thought at the time to be true love
being in my 30s wasn’t so terrible and
everything seemed to be on a steady
upswing until life presented me with
circumstances that would forever turn my
world upside down it’s so unfortunate
that this has happened to you so young
one in five women with your diagnosis
will live to see five years you have a
15% chance of beating this are you going
to die how did you get this these are
just a few of the horrid things I had to
hear when life blindsided me with a
stage 4 incurable metastatic breast
cancer diagnosis nearly six and a half
years ago my body was riddled with
cancer and as hard as it was to hear
such things from medical professionals
family friends and strangers I made a
promise to myself that I was going to
beat this by any means necessary I would
be that one in five women to live to see
five years I would be in that 15 percent
six years of non-stop chemotherapy
induced menopause countless surgeries
and a few bouts with death are just a
few of the challenges that I’ve had to
face on this bridge for the first four
years the cancer was stable for the most
part but then came near five my life
expectancy and sure enough the cancer
returned with a vengeance devouring my
right breast and flooding both of my
lungs leaving me essentially breathless
this chemo that chemo nothing was
stopping it the one person that I
thought could save my life totally gave
up on me I’m sorry but my drugs just
aren’t working those would be the last
words that I would hear from my then
oncologist but I knew something just
wasn’t right the God within me my
intuition was literally screaming at me
with
manifested as panic attacks that were so
debilitating I literally spent an entire
summer indoors praying on my hands and
knees and trying to tap into this power
that I kept reading about and hearing
about on my spiritual journey supposably
we all had access to it so how how was I
gonna access this power more than ever I
needed God I needed answers and I needed
them quickly soon enough the answers and
messages and signs that I was so
desperately praying for started to
appear and I began to follow
I took the giant leap of faith believing
the most prestigious Cancer Center in
the whole entire world and found a new
Doctor Who through testing and biopsy
discovered that I had been misdiagnosed
no wonder I wasn’t responding to
treatment I was on all of the wrong
drugs for over four years I quickly
found a new oncologist I started the
correct treatment and slowly but surely
my circumstances started it started to
turn around what wonders being on the
right drugs will do fast-forward to
today
after a few more bouts with death I am
currently the strongest and healthiest I
have been and this almost seven year
journey cancer is hardly traceable in my
body I have defied every single odd
placed against me by staying in my truth
by believing myself and by following my
intuition and this intuition this
god-given power that I speak of is
within each and every single one of us
and it knows our truth and just like it
led me to uncover my misdiagnosis your
intuition also holds your truth I
encourage each and every one of you to
get to know this power to get tapped in
with this innate god-given magic that
lies within each and every one of us for
once you do anything is possible
anything even defeating something that
was supposed to kill you
thank you
[Music]
you
[Music]
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