Five years ago today, at 9am, I slipped away from my desk at Dolly magazine and walked to my hand doctor’s office with excitement. Two weeks prior I’d had surgery to remove fluid on my left middle finger and biopsies to try and work out why I had strange little lumps popping up all over my hand arm. Being a firm fixture on the Sydney social scene, the cast I’d had to wear for the two weeks was a drag. It was uncomfortable and impossible to hide in photographs, and I was peeved off having to type with one hand at work. With the MTV awards just two days away, I was keen to get the thing off.
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Unless you’re colour blind, you may have noticed that this month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We are surrounded by a sea of damn pink ribbons everywhere we look. One of my daily highlights is watching The Ellen Show, but her whole pink “Ellen For The Cure” thing grates on me. Why? Because raising awareness of breast cancer and raising money to fund drug research is not
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Image found here 8760 glasses of juice 2920 coffee enemas 1460 baked potatoes 1460 bowls of Hippocrates soup 33580 supplements 174 shots of castor oil Two years ago yesterday I arrived at the Gerson clinic in Tijuana, Mexico to start two years of intense detoxification and nutritional treatment. I thought that I was about to… Read More
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I have just completed 21 months of Gerson Therapy. That means I have three more to go. Three more!! I am so freaking excited. Even my fingers are happily skipping across the computer keys as I type. To celebrate this amazing milestone, my boyfriend and I drove a couple hours south from where we live… Read More
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If one of your New Year’s intentions was to get your outsides lean and your insides all squeaky clean, then I highly recommend you start having daily vegetable juices. It’s one of the best ways to cleanse your body from the inside out. I haven’t gone a day without a veggie juice in almost… Read More
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Way back when we bought that very first book on how to heal cancer naturally, and my Mum started rattling off all of the foods I would have to say goodbye to, I thought my life was ruined. How can one exist without things like spaghetti Bolognese and satay chicken, I thought? But as saving… Read More
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When people say that cancer is a gift, I have to disagree. It’s certainly not something I would give to a friend. However, it is a catalyst for change and it is one of the most powerful teachers I have come across. Each year since I was first diagnosed (it will be four in April)… Read More
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To celebrate 2011 coming to a close, I wanted to take a little wander down memory lane and have a look at the posts you guys found most interesting during the year. These are the posts that attracted the most views, the most comments and the most shares on Facebook and Twitter. ONE. … Read More
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This year was my third sober Christmas, and my second Christmas as a Gerson Person. I have to say, even though I couldn’t partake in the cold Coronas, or pig out on the buckets of fresh prawns, this year’s Christmas Day was really lovely. Maybe I’m finally starting to grow up, or perhaps the Therapy… Read More
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