Support Breanne's Journey to Healing

Dear Friends, Family and Community,  

 

I am reaching out to you with a story and to ask for your help. Please consider reading on and helping as you feel inclined.  

The Background Story

In August of 2022, I had just purchased my very first home, a personal milestone that felt like the tumult from the previous four years of my life—which had included a Stage III rectal cancer diagnosis (read the story here ), surgery to remove the tumor (and a foot of my colon), the subsequent recovery, long-term unemployment, a painful breakup and a global pandemic—were finally behind me. Having my own home felt like a new beginning, forming a beautiful picture of possibility in my mind.  

Two weeks after I moved in, I went to the oncologist for a routine check-up. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with metastatic cancer when the bloodwork and scans revealed elevated tumor markers and a new mass in my liver. It felt as if a brick had been thrown through the picture and the image of my future had shattered.  

My whole body shook with disbelief, fear and grief. Illness didn’t fit the image I held of myself. How did I develop cancer twice in less than four years? I wanted to live… to decorate my new home, plant flowers in my front yard. I didn’t want to think about hospitals and surgeries, countless doctor appointments, or robotic physicians telling me that my best shot at survival meant injecting toxic chemicals into my blood. Not. Again.

Four years ago, after researching chemotherapy, radiation and their long-term effectiveness, I opted for a natural approach to treatment. I successfully used diet, nutrition, and various other non-invasive treatments to improve the size of the tumor in my rectum, which enabled me to forego chemo and radiation and instead go straight to surgery--something not recommended by my oncologist, nor common in conventional approaches to cancer treatment. According to a cancer risk analysis tool created by Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital, my chance of recurrence after surgery was less than 2%.

During my research, I was fascinated by studies that linked emotional health and physical disease. Many books and articles I read at the time discussed causal links between high-stress lifestyles and the development of disease in the body. As a child and young woman, I had struggled with depression, low self-esteem and a low sense of self worth. I was able to hide those internal feelings well enough, but after learning about the correlation between mental health and physical disease, I couldn't overlook the possibility that my emotions may have played a part in the development of the condition in my body. While I understood how stuck emotions contributed to disease, I did not yet understand how to heal my mind in order to facilitate healing in my body, nor did I understand that healing the mind was even a thing.

After undergoing surgery, I didn't put much effort into my emotional or mental wellbeing, and in the back of my mind, I knew I still had work to do. When I was diagnosed again less than four years later, I knew addressing the correlation between emotions and disease development would be integral to healing. I believed that if I could heal the emotions—and thus the thoughts and feelings that created them—then the disease would heal itself. Still, I had no idea how to do it.

The morning after I learned of the tumor in my liver, I went for a walk to some youth baseball fields, sat in the bleachers and cried. I stared up at the blue, early morning sky. Its perfection glistened in contrast to the storm inside of me. “Okay, God.” I said, “Show me where I need to go to heal.”  

Moments later, I got up from the bleachers and passed a two-story brick building as I walked toward home. On the second story, I noticed a door with the Tree of Life etched into its picture frame window. Familiar with the tree’s meaning, I climbed the stairs to find out the name of the business. It read, Tree of Life Healing Center.  

It had not yet opened, so I made a mental note to look into the business further. As I continued, in my mind’s eye I saw myself walk into what resembled a medical office. I approached the reception desk and without giving my name, I said, “I’m supposed to be here.” The woman sitting at the desk promptly took me back to show me around. Then the image vanished. I thought nothing of what I had seen in my mind, dismissing it as random and irrelevant. Later that afternoon, I went to the oncologist to discuss test and scan results, forgetting what I had seen and the Tree of Life.

“I think we can get this.” The doctor said when he walked into the room, “Are you ready to consider chemotherapy?”

As I listened to him disclose his recommended course of action, images of cancer marketing ran through my mind. I wondered how a toxin was considered therapeutic, how poison is the avenue back to health. I thought perhaps I should follow his suggestions this time. I thought, It’s my liver. I’m not even 40 yet. I still want to be married one day. Will I get to fall in love again? Will I get to be a mother? What if I die? Could this be how I die? Will my family be left to mourn my loss? 

The Turning Point

The next day, I recalled the Tree of Life Healing Center and decided to go back. When I approached the reception desk, I said, “This might sound crazy, but I’m pretty sure I was led here.” I told her the story of how I discovered the establishment just as the owner walked out from the back. 

“What do you do here?” I asked her. And she said, “I work for God.”  

The vision I had the day before flashed back in my mind, and I knew I was in the right place. A spark of belief ignited within me that I would survive. It is the spark that began a journey of learning how to heal my body from metastatic disease without the use of conventional medical intervention. A journey requiring me to dive deep within my Inner Self to uncover the thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs that contributed to the formation of cancer twice in less than four years. Using the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza, I am learning to change who I am and what I believe in order to heal my body naturally.

Using meditation alongside quantum physics, epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology and biology, Dr. Joe teaches the neuroscience of change, and people around the world are learning how to heal themselves from every type of disease or condition known to man. Using his methods, students have healed from cancer, paralysis, deafness, blindness, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, depression, anxiety, eczema and much more. (Find testimonials here and here.) Most recently, Dr. Joe and his team of researchers at UC San Diego published a groundbreaking article on Meditation's impact on Immunity.

 

In May of this year, I learned the cancer had spread from my liver into my lungs, causing me to doubt whether my own healing was possible. I questioned whether the approach would work for me, and even if I wanted to go on living. Truthfully, some days giving up feels like the easier choice. What I've come to understand about practicing Dr. Joe's work is that healing the body doesn't happen in a linear way—while spontaneous healings do happen, often things can get worse before they get better. And if it weren’t for the community around me—the fellow practitioners of his work, the people at Tree of Life Healing Center, and the friends and family who believe in my healing— I wouldn’t have the grit to keep going. It is their belief in me and our collective belief that anything is possible that has picked me up and carried me forward.

After learning the cancer had spread, I took a leave of absence from work to focus fully on my health. However, the leave of absence expired and I was terminated, losing my health insurance as a result. Without income, I’ve reached the point where I am no longer able to support my basic needs or explore additional forms of adjunctive therapy. Non-conventional medical treatments are rarely covered by insurance and as a result, people who wish to seek other avenues for care are left to pay for services out-of-pocket. Even treatments that are covered by insurance may only be partially covered, leaving patients responsible for the remaining balance. The bottom line is medical care is costly—no matter what approach you choose. Thus, I am reaching out to ask for help.

 

How Your Donations will be used

The choice I’ve made and the path I’ve chosen isn’t an easy one. There are days filled with doubt and fear, pain, frustration and setback. Then there are days filled with magic, wonder and miracles that cannot be explained by my own understanding. My journey is about exploring the depths of human potential and learning what we are capable of. I believe we're living in a time when we're in dire need of global change, and we've been conditioned to think that the capacity to heal lies with something and someone outside of ourselves. But the truth is the power to heal is already within us. I want to be a light to others who believe the same and to those who are willing to traverse a different path. I may not know how the journey ends, but I chose to show up every day with the the intention to contribute to the greater good for all.

If you feel inclined to support my journey, please donate or share my story with others. As time permits, I will post more stories, mystical experiences and evidence of my progress. Thank you for reading my story. And from the depths of my heart, thank you for believing in me.