Healing cancer naturally can be a very difficult and lonely journey. So it’s even more important for us to be able to LAUGH about our crazy, bizarre lives and ridiculous daily routines! Here are 39 daily habits only us who are on a natural healing journey from cancer can truly understand…
You Might Be Healing Your Cancer Naturally If…
- You snuck your giant cooler of green vegetable smoothie into a football game by pretending to be pregnant…and it worked! (Yep- that’s my husband and me in the picture!)
- A “coffee break” doesn’t involve cream or sugar…or a mug…or drinking.
- The only reason you use your microwave is for storage of your wheatgrass juicer…or the 30 bottles of supplements that won’t fit in your cabinet.
- Everyone who comes over says your house smells like a Whole Foods Market.
- If words like “apoptosis,” “antiangiogenesis,” and “acai”, were in the National Spelling Bee, you would totally win.
- You’ve heard crickets when you told your mother-in-law that jumping on a trampoline is part of your cancer treatment.
- You heard crickets when you told ANYONE for the first time how you planned on treating your cancer naturally.
- You wrote a letter to your insurance company explaining why a trip to Florida is needed as part of your cancer treatment so you can deal with your emotions and stress.
- You blend and drink at least two of your meals a day.
- Your poop is a different shade of green everyday.
- Light pink objects, particularly ribbon shaped ones, are JUST NO.
- Your breath smells like a freshly mowed lawn.
- You could beat Joey Chestnut at a supplement eating contest, if only he would just give up the hotdog wharfing.
- You know hotdogs cause cancer anyways! Along with pretty much everything else.
- EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. you learn that something you thought was healthy- actually causes cancer….
- ……except maybe water….which in most cases unless you filter it with expensive special filters, causes cancer too.
- You plop out a giant mason jar of water (or filter your water right at the table) when out at restaurants. You feel like everyone is staring at you…because they probably are.
- You’ve brought your own tupperware of food to a restaurant. (Oh. I know…GLASS tupperware!)
- You make and bring your own hand soap with you to public bathrooms.
- “Cheating on your diet” means you ate cooked food…
- You feel guilty because even though your almonds are raw, organic, non-irradiated, and GMO FREE, they aren’t sprouted.
- You know that water can be alkaline, ionized, and hydrogen-infused and explain WHY…or screw it all and just buy a Berkey.
- You feel bad your oncologist spent 8+ years in school and you know more about healing the body than they do.
- Your 4-year-old told her teacher that her mom “drinks her morning coffee through a tube on the bathroom floor.”
- You know that shower filters are a thing.
- You need to eat out of a salad bowl the size of a trash can.
- For the first time in your life, you’re trying to keep/put weight ON.
- You know what “Budwig” means…
- You’ve drank so much carrot juice, you turned orange.
- You’ve explained to your neighbor that your new “backyard nudist” habit is part of your intense Vitamin D protocol.
- Coconut oil, baking soda, and apple cider vinegar are pretty much all you need to clean your entire house…and make your own deodorant.
- You use the same ingredients to clean your house as you wash your hair with. And brush your teeth with.
- You’ve sang to the wheatgrass at the Living Foods Institute (to send it good energy of course.)
- You view anything that didn’t grow from the ground and go straight to your plate as POISON.
- Chris Wark, Charlotte Gerson, and Ty Bollinger…are your favorite “celebrities.”
- You have weird mixed emotions about whether to trash or donate all your perfectly good but toxic beauty products to friends…after you learn that they all contribute to cancer.
- EVERYONE around you feels the need to confess their bad eating habits to you, when they see what you’re eating.
- You think that your $400 Vitamix and $200 (or much more) juicer should TOTALLY be covered by insurance. They’re THAT important.
- Your cancer treatment has left you…FEELING IN THE BEST SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE!
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It is always fun to see the reaction to the *SMELL* of me eating my morning bitter raw apricot seeds.
It’s not like I chew with my mouth open, and I can be on the other side of the kitchen (although I don’t have a large kitchen, maybe that’s part of it)… and I don’t even think about the bitter taste or smell, but boy do others! Also the comments on using coconut oil, I have progressed from a small organic bottle of coconut oil, to a rather large one ( I buy 2 at a time as well, so I never run out)- I use it for so many things.
I used to say that when it rains it pours…. but the truth is ‘when it pours HE reigns’.
Thanks for reminding us to see the humor in this season in life.
This blog is such an inspiration. This post made me laugh out loud because of how many things on the list I can relate to. I’m sitting at my desk sipping carrot juice as I type. I’m scheduled to undergo a lumpectomy tomorrow but I plan to refuse radiation and tamoxifen. I’ve been doing almost everything on this list since February when I was diagnosed and I feel fantastic. I lost 30 lbs which wasn’t my plan, so I’m trying to figure out how to gain some of it back but other than that my body feels amazing. I have tons more energy than I had back in February. I would love to find a healing strong group in my area. I don’t think there’s one there yet. I may have to start one!
Hi Kendra, way to go! And yes, keep an eye on the HealingStrong groups…where are you located?
I am learning some of these things these past few weeks! My 20 year old son was diagnosed in October of last year with testicular cancer and had mets to the lung. He had the testicle removed in October and the lung nodule removed this past April. His bloodwork, scans, and xrays are perfect. As of today, we told our oncologist that we were going an alternative route. He said he disagrees with this but respects our decision and will oversee surveillance. We are learning the ropes!
Here’s another one. When you live overseas, and go to get your hair cut, you are more concerned about your translator telling the hairdresser to not use ANY product in your hair (shampoo, conditioner, hairspray, etc.) than you are about how your hair will look afterwards.
Love it! Thank you. Glad to find your blog. 🙂
Thank you Cortney. Finding your blog has been a true blessing. Loved having a chuckle with this blog post. My whole family was laughing as we so relate.
Your switch your perfume between Frankinsence & Myrrh or both combined.
So loved your list. Can totally relate. Hope you’re doing well
I can identify! I am on a natural healing jo.urney as well. I have history of breast cancer and had a lump come up on the other side. I’ve also have an enlarged lymph node in my groin that came up suddenly the week of Thanksgiving. I’ve been to multiple doctor’s and no one wants to biopsy it. They want me to do a pet scan. I don’t want to expose myself to all of that radiation. But it would be nice to know if my cancer is truly back. I sent off my urine to the Navarro clinic. it came back at 51 +4. after juicing and coffee enemas and multiple supplements, I am feeling quite a bit better. But I still have the enlarged lymph node in my groin. Have your lymph nodes gone down in size or are they still palpable? my doctor did an ultrasound but it did not show anything. But I am still worried and would like peace of mind. especially since I have palpable lumps. thanks for all of your advice and encouragement! I live in Canton, GA.
Hi Susan, this healing journey never ends, huh? 🙂 If I were you I would be treating this new lymph node activity as if it were cancer involved anyway with a complete lifestyle overhaul. Sounds like you’re doing great with juicing and CE’s so just keep that up and retest with hcG in 6-8 weeks. And to answer your question, my cancerous lymph nodes completely shrunk to the touch about 3 months into my protocol. I think it was after the addition of Essiac tea that really helped this, so you should definitely consider adding this as well to your protocol.
You feel obligated to go to a potluck but your dish is the only one you’ll eat
Hi again. Sorry. I give my word not to comment daily. Lol. I am hearing so much conflicting info on grains. Bad vs. Good. The cooking class I took last night was put on by a group known as The Food for Life Cancer Project. I enjoyed going. Learned some fascinating (sad) statistics. Any how…I’m just curious…during the time you were fighting and beating the cancer did you consume grains? I know everyone,is different, as well as their protocol.
Hey Tanya, lol. Comment as much as you’d like! I only ate sprouted Ezekiel bread or cereal during my healing protocol (as a treat…)
Yes !
It does seem that, for TREATMENT you need to do a lot of crazy things.
I do many of them as a normal part of a wholefood vegetarian diet, which I have followed since the age of 17. I am now, at age 81, free from any aches and pains or joint problems, although my consultant thinks that I PROBABLY “have” prostate cancer. 90% of people at age 80 have it, but don’t usually die from it, apparently.
It’s such a pity the consultant, like most doctors, have no knowledge of our protocols, and was only offering me biopsy (which I refused 3 years ago- I don’t want to spread cancer cells right to the centre of my prostate or around my body via my bloodstream). Now, probably because of age, he just wants to bring my testosterone down to NIL with a drug. I don’t fancy being a eunuch either! If I was younger he would probably have offered operations which would have left me with water works or rectum damaged etc.
I highly recommend a mini-trampoline, which I use once or twice a day while getting some vitamin D from a sunlamp and watching television. It is important that these practices do not become a chore as life is for living! A regular walk in the middle of the day suits my age, although 4 hours dancing most days used to be my favorite exercise, which was more sociable.
Smiling and laughter is all useful stuff too. We are so lucky in the wealthy West, to be able to do these things.
Wouldn’t it be great to have hundreds of success stories sent in by people who were coping successfully.
Yes! Love this, Mike!
This is brilliant. I had breast cancer 2 yrs ago and had a lumpectomy but refused radiation and Tamoxifen. I found your blog during that time and it’s been a Godsend. I get the blank stares and funny looks when I explain my choices. Everyone at work thinks my food looks delicious but they have no interest in eating it. People say, “You look great, what have you been doing?” and when I pretty much run down this list, they say “Oh, I don’t want to do any of that” and the conversation ends. Yes, my deodorant is on my bathroom counter in a glass jar that once contained marinated artichokes. Thank you so much for this post.
I did it naturally and this was soooooo funny and so TRUE. It was a craziness I lived through! Getting back to food has also been an odyssey to figure out. Thanks for the laugh!
I’m sitting here 2/3 through my 5 hr IV Vitamin C treatment. This completely made my day. So hilarious. Especially the coffee posts… Bahahaha!!!! Love that someone else gets me!!! Love you friend!!!
Sabina!!! Hey, got your message about the Vit C treatment. We can have a holistic cancer mom playdate in the next few weeks. Hahaha 🙂 xoxoxoxo
I LOVE your awesome post. It made me laugh so much.
All recognition.
And indeed, when you look at it from the outside, this totally sensible way of living looks so freakin’ crazy. A pot with a coconut oil- baking sodamix marked: toothpaste and deodorant in my bathroom….i mean…
I had a lump in my breast for 5 years. Never a biopt or mammo only thermographic check-ups.
In the end i had it taken out (it grew half outside my skin) and my surgeon asked me (he was an angel, really) if i wanted to have the lump checked wether it was cancer or not.
It turned out to be an aggressive form of cancer and the team talked for over an hour about HOW on earth i managed to not die three years earlier because of it.
And to my astonishment, he did not ask the obvious question….what is your secret? How did you survive this?
The answer being, most of the above list here. Plus emotional cleansing.
Keep going, this is so great!!
This is so great to hear, Karo! Way to GO!!! 🙂
Karo, that is amazing! I have a lump close to my skin as well & have been monitoring it with thermography. I am curious as to whether any of your thermography scan results showed any ‘hot spots’? Thanks in advance and many blessings on your healing journey.
you totally nailed it! uncontrollable head nodding and chuckles – each of these is spot on! It’s good to be in such good company. thank you, bless you.
Hey Janet, it’s the truth! Gotta laugh about all this crazy stuff!
You know you are healing cancer naturally when…You’ve traded in your stylish make-up bag for a jumbo size pill box and bystanders are amazed that you have memorized each supplement by name (all 25 of them) and can explain in detail the function of each and every one of them and how they are helping to reverse disease.
Yes! Anyone healing holistically is wonderful and not weird!! You are much more intelligent then the phd’s that sadly poison their patients with chemo that makes them more acid and also kills their immune system so they are set up for guess what; Another bout of cancer after they go thru the horrible side affects of chemo. I’m with Ty, the brave folks that buck the traditional medical system and go for the natural/alternatives need to educate the misguided that there is hope and there are cures! Applause applause and standing ovation and hats off to all the cancer warriors and dissenters to the traditional medical establishment
Quite a few of these apply to me! Lol
I am clicking on your trip to Florida link because while I don’t have cancer, I’m pretty sure my health depends on me taking a sans kids vacation soon ;). This list was hilarious & fascinating. xo
Oh my gosh, YES- I will come with you!!! lol.
This is perfect! Amazing! Beautiful! I so got a chuckle out of the “realness” of these bullets. I have a huge family tree with various cancers…I have not had cancer…I have been reading so much about cancer the past 4 months thR I can relate and understand so much of this post from the things we’ve changed in our diet, home, and etc. I’m even attending a class tomorrow 1 hour away on food preparation to help prevent cancer or how to eat if diagnosed. I have just stumbled upon this blog today and look forward to learning at the rest of the site.
Welcome Tanya! I’m glad you could find humor in this crazy list today! 🙂
You can add “You constantly smell like Frankincense Oil” to th list! Lol
In researching and discovering why in the world it is that people can be beating cancer left and right using this stuff, yet doctors aren’t taught about it, insurance won’t cover it, and some of it is downright illegal, you realize you’ve become “a conspiracy theorist.” And your friends and family agree!
Oh my gosh, Ryan! YES! This. (My husband was always the crazy conspiracy theorist and look at how our story turned out! Glad I trusted him!)
Yep. I thank God every day he gave me the interests he did long before we got the bad news so we had a nice head start 🙂
Love this!! I laughed and laughed and laughed!! Because it’s all so true!
Thankyou so much..i can relate to so many..have to try the pregnant trick..dave
HAHAHA, Dave…you never know in today’s world. It could totally work! 😉
Love this – so funny!
Wonderful blog! I identify! My husband and I are healing his colon cancer naturally and dealing with most of these issues. One you forgot, though; “When questioned, you explain to the waitress the shaker on the table is your own pink Himalayan salt.”
Love your site! God bless you and press on!
and the other shaker on the table is chia seed! Bahahaha!!!