In January of 2018, I had just turned 35 years old. I was content with where I was in life. An avid traveler, a surfer, runner, cyclist, and general lover of life, I was happy. What I was most passionate about was surfing. I just loved and lived for...
After four doctors told that surgery was the only way to treat the large cancerous tumor growing on my sacrum, my only thought was this: there’s no way in hell I’m having that surgery. There has to be another way. I wanted to surf. I wanted to save my...
One day, while waiting for the UCLA doctors to call and give me a date for my surgery, I was eating lunch with my friend Lauren at Gratitude Cafe. I was telling her all the latest drama of the tumor and having trouble getting a surgery, when suddenly a...
So in September of 2018, four months after my cancer diagnosis, I signed up for Proton Beam Therapy at California Protons Cancer Therapy Center with Dr. Urbanic, who initially recommended surgery, but agreed to treat me after I told him I refused surgery. I immediately liked Dr. Urbanic, not...
Despite feeling better and better and being able to do more things physically, like driving short distances, I didn’t expect there to be any changes with the MRI. In fact, I don’t think I had expectations either way. I was somehow in such a state of inner calm, that...
I continued to stick with the daily meditations, 1 sometimes 2 hours a day without fail. It became part of my daily routine, and has been ever since. The Joe Dispenza Meditation Retreat In July 2019, I headed to the seven-day Joe Dispenza meditation retreat in Portland, Oregon. Along...
