One week ago today I had the opportunity to attend the UCSD
Center for Integrative Medicine, Integrative Oncology 2013 Program. I attended with Eric Galvez, and Monika Carlson I am grateful for all the
information that was provided at this event.
It has encouraged and motivated me to again have a balanced diet, body,
and mind.
This event made me more aware about how unbalanced my life
has been the past few months. My diet
has been terrible; I have been eating a lot of meat and lacking a plant based
diet. Physically, I am completely out of
shape. I have gained weight, and lost so
much muscle tone. I have not exercised
as I did before. Lastly, my mind has
been full of negativity in turn causing much stress. I am ready to once again go back to my balanced
lifestyle for optimal wellbeing.
I began thinking to myself what happened that led me to be
so unbalanced these past few months. I
have figured out that after my surgeries I had negative thoughts, I did not
feel good about myself, and began to worry a lot about my future. Also the treatment that I am currently on for
breast cancer is causing me many side effects and I don’t like it. This also has me feeling down. I hate going once a month to my oncologist to
get the dreaded shot on my stomach, and I hate having to take a pill on a daily
basis.
What the conference made me realize is that during my
treatment I can also integrate other approaches that will increase my quality
of life and help me be a more balanced person.
For the past week I have begun to increase my intake of plant based food
and decrease meats. I have begun to
exercise again, and I also am trying to applying stress management skills and
activities and having more positive thoughts to have a healthy mind and
body. I plan to integrate something new
that I learned at the conference, and this is acupuncture. Acupuncture appears that it may help decrease
some of my treatment symptoms.
I am looking forward to applying what I learned about diet,
body, mind, and acupuncture to increase my wellbeing and decrease my risk of a
recurring cancer or a new cancer in the future.
