‘An anti-cancer lifestyle is not a rigid set of rules to follow, but a safe space to be filled with your favorite ways of nourishing health and discouraging cancer. Since cancer thrives in a too-ordered situation, relax and let chaos give a hand now and then in the execution of your plan. I include all the following elements in my anti-cancer lifestyle. Were I to be diagnosed with cancer, I would continue to do these things in addition to any other remedies I might choose:
• Stay in touch with my own daily and seasonal rhythms
• Sleep in total darkness or moonlight; get into the sun daily
• Eat one meal at the same time each day
• Have emotional outlets
• Choose friends who support me and my truth
• Have artistic outlets
• Receive lots of appreciation and approval (a.k.a. love)
• Exercise one hour three times a week
• Get a massage once a month or more
• Do my yoga practice once a week or more
• Have sexual outlets
• Take a quiet time of beingness daily
• Make full use of all sources of joy available to me
• Eat a Mediterranean-style diet of mostly organically grown foods including daily use of cabbage family plants, raw and cooked greens, whole grains, beans, sunflower seeds, soy products, olive oil, garlic, seasonal fresh fruit, seaweed, yogurt and cheese, herbal infusions, herbal vinegars, and antioxidant seasonings, nuts, mushrooms, and dried fruit. And I avoid: Vitamin/mineral supplements, chlorine, nitrates, tobacco, prescription hormones, TV, white flour, white sugar, processed foods, and non-organic animal products.’
This article is written by Susun Weed who I have known of for over 20 years. I met her when I was barely into my 20’s, and what an impression she has made on me. In the middle of her talk, she LEAPED up onto a table like a wild-animal! Being rather shy and ‘proper’, I was so amazed at this ‘wild woman’ who is of the ‘Wise Woman Tradition’. I knew she was a Master Herbalist and writer (HEALING WISE and HERBAL FOR THE CHILDBEARING YEAR, ETC.) and already respected her wisdom. But I had never met a woman so fully self-expressed like that! She was outrageous! TALK ABOUT ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE AND CONVICTION. I wonder how many of us have that VITAL, URGENT, grasp on life? In an instant I was forever changed. We women can and MUST be everything we know deep-down in our souls that we DESIRE ourselves to be. Our men, our children and our sisters shine and thrive to the extent that we do.
I believe inspiration can be found everywhere! Thank you, Susun, for your courage and wisdom which all women share.
To all RAW MOMS, this week, may you unleash YOUR wise and wild woman!
Bless! Shannon
Tags: raw foods, Shannon Leone, Susun Weed, wise woman tradition
