Since my experience with cancer that started in 2005, I have been committed to eliminating stress and experiencing peace and freedom in my life. You hear of many people who go through an experience like cancer and are forever changed. I have to admit that the change was not automatic and immediate; it has been a long process. The change however has been profound. Cancer gave me the gift of learning how to take the leap of faith. I am grateful for the lesson. Not everyone needs a lesson as severe as cancer, but I was stubborn. The emotional patterns, fears, and beliefs were so ingrained, that it took a real cage-rattler like cancer to shake me from my reverie and bring me to the brink.
After cancer, I stood on the shores of a life I had known for 36 years - one of striving, struggle, hard work, challenge, pressure, responsibility - and looked across the river to the land of the Unknown, the Land of Promise. Over there I wanted to find peace, tranquillity, creativity, inspiration, joy, fun, and freedom. I had no idea what that would look like, or how I was going to make it happen. I had to trust that things would fall in to place when I made the choice to love my life enough to make a change.