by Donna Gianniotis, Australia
Four and a half years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 33 at the time. It came as a shock as I thought that I lived a healthy lifestyle. I was a yoga teacher, ate a ‘healthy diet’, exercised, meditated, and practised yoga. However, I knew from the moment of the diagnosis that this wasn’t something that happened to me. I had a feeling somewhere deep in my body that this was the result of how I had been living.
I spent the year going through conventional treatments, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and IVF to freeze my eggs. I also searched for answers as to the underlying root cause of breast cancer.
It was a year or so later that I came to the work of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. I remember sitting at the first Esoteric Medicine presentation that I attended in person that was presented by Serge. I connected strongly to what was being presented in regard to the need for women to self-nurture; it wasn’t the first time that I had heard this, but it just seemed to resonate much more deeply that night, I knew it in my body to be true. It felt as though Serge was talking directly to me.
This understanding has continued to unfold for me and it wasn’t until I started to receive regular Esoteric Breast Massages (EBM) at the end of last year, that I could really connect to the energy of being self-nurturing. Before it was a concept, but not one that I really understood from my body. I attended a Women’s Group where the Esoteric Breast Massage was discussed. I resonated with all that was said and booked in for some sessions.
These sessions were and continue to be deeply healing for me. The first few sessions were exposing. I had rashes that came up all over my body that lasted for a couple of months. With these rashes came the feelings of how I’d been living in disregard, the pain, the hurts that I’d felt throughout my life. I’d had these rashes many times before, but not to this extent. I also had these rashes 12 months before the diagnosis of the cancer. I know now that this was my body’s way of telling me that I wasn’t living in a way that was harmonious or nurturing. The rashes passed and I understood that these were my hurts that I had buried within me. Also what came was a clear understanding of how to truly connect with myself. It wasn’t intellectual, but was a felt sense that came from my body.
Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me. I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am. My relationship to my breasts has totally changed. Actually, my relationship to my whole body and to myself as a woman has changed and this continues to develop. For the most part, I love being me. It’s a far cry from the person I used to be – to wake up each morning and not want to be me.
Having recently come off Tamoxifen, I have returned to having a normal period. My periods are very different to how they were pre-cancer. I no longer have pain, cramping or dark red clotting. My periods are heavy, but are a bright red healthy flow. The Women’s Groups have been an integral part of me learning practical ways to live in a way that I can honour myself as a woman and in turn, I see that reflected back in my body.
I am deeply grateful for the work that is presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and for the wonderful work of the practitioners and in particular for the Esoteric Breast Massage modality.
Esoteric Breast Massage – a wonderful tool alongside conventional medicine.
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I find the Esoteric Breast Massage to be deeply healing, I had one recently and felt very held so lovingly as a mother would hold their new born child. And I knew I had never been held in this way before but that it was okay because I could hold myself in the absolute love I know myself to be. To know that there is this deep well of love within me and that it is in everyone but because we have not been living in a way that supports us to feel it, it remains hidden until such time that we allow ourselves to let go and tune into our true essence. And this is exactly what the EBM’s do they assist a woman to trust themselves enough that they can let go of all the different characters that life expect us to play, the ideals and beliefs on how we should look and behave and instead return to just being ourselves and that just being ourselves is enough.
“I knew from the moment of the diagnosis that this wasn’t something that happened to me. I had a feeling somewhere deep in my body that this was the result of how I had been living.“ This innate knowing is not nurtured in life, and to our great expense. We are taught to memorise knowledge and not to value how we feel or what we sense, but this is where our wisdom and knowing is. The situation with the majority of humanity being so unwell needn’t be that way, and one way to reverse that could be in supporting people to trust what they feel and sense, and to then honour their inner knowing. For me when I haven’t trusted what I sense and feel it usually has a big impact on my well-being, it may be a relationship issue or something else I don’t attend to which then puts pressure on my body when the situation causes stress.
This is an amazing contribution to the benefits of the Esoteric Breast Massage and how it can support us to completely change our relationship with ourselves and how we are with our bodies and the choices we make in life. “The Women’s Groups have been an integral part of me learning practical ways to live in a way that I can honour myself as a woman and in turn, I see that reflected back in my body.” It’s a constant feedback from our bodies and boy do they respond well to love and care!
Amazing to hear how your body responded and returned so beautifully to a natural rhythm (which can be difficult post cancer treatments). This to me shows that your body has received the support it needed and that you worked with the opportunities that presented to heal and restore. Amazing example and role model for many women.
Conventional medicine alone does not give the full support that is possible compared to offering someone all options such as Esoteric medicine combined with the Conventional.
It is interesting how we can be confronted by a diagnosis and be ‘surprised’ but also on some level know why this is happening and that it cannot be explained away with an unhealthy diet or otherwise. This shows that there is a deep wisdom within each and every one of us and it is about tuning into this and honouring what we feel. This is all about responsibility – Thank you very much for your beautiful sharing Donna and how it is never too late for us to feel, accept and take responsibility no matter what!
Henrietta You explain that there is a deep wisdom within each and every one of us if we tuned into our bodies we would feel what we know. And yet we have built a way of living that has us focusing on what is happening outside of us. There must be a reason why we have done this so my question has to be why have we set up a way of living that is totally opposite to how we could and should be living? May be if we stopped long enough to ask these sorts of questions our bodies will give us the answer and more.
And Mary, there is a precision to the system of life created that causes us to live contra to the sensitively, awareness, and love we naturally are, that needs to be part of the questioning as well.
I can’t but endlessly appreciate what Esoteric Breast Massage and all UM modalities offer to humanity. They are exquisitely respectful and invite us to go deeper to simply re-connect with the grandness of who we are. Everything that is not love, can be released and healed when we fully and responsibly embrace ourselves in our life experience.
Spoken from a lived experience. Amazing to hear just how much has changed for you. I was just speaking to a friend sharing how my periods are so lovely now (I use to be curled up in pain for days each month) since the Sacred Healing modalities, Esoteric Women’s Health and Women in Livingness groups all of which are absolute gold in supporting us to reconnect to our truth within and truly heal from within.
“I knew from the moment of the diagnosis that this wasn’t something that happened to me. I had a feeling somewhere deep in my body that this was the result of how I had been living”. This is amazing insight to have had when you were diagnosed. I have seen that it certainly shakes people up when someone who is the ‘picture of health’ and ‘doing all the right things’ develops a serious illness. It exposes the shaky ground that we have built our superficial understanding of health on.
Esoteric Breast Massage is not really massage as most people see it these days. The exquisite care, respect and delicateness of the practitioner is a huge part of the healing process- the sacredness that is inherent and the nurturing also. This is not something to shy away from for it can allow us to connect on a deeper level with these qualities within ourselves and also let what has prevented us doing so before fall away.
Elaine it’s a great comment because you have highlighted just how different the Esoteric Massage (EBM) is to massage in general. Massage is normally seen as something that provides physical relief to the musculoskeletal skeletal system and the flow on effects mentally and emotionally. The EBM holds the whole woman and the way she lives her life as part of the treatment, meaning she is held in her natural exquisite beauty, preciousness, and sacredness, and the treatment helps to bring this forth so she can live in harmony with who she is, and this can bring about lifestyle changes prompted by her new depth of inner connection.
Beautiful Donna, the way you embraced and listened your body symptoms is very inspiring, far different form denying it or feeling like a victim. Thank you for sharing.
Oh how I love Esoteric Breast Massage, the delicacy of the technique, the gentle touch of the practitioner that is ever so reminding of our most innate quality. In these sessions I feel honoured, I feel like I can let go off my guard and surrender, even if it is just for an hour – to feel my essence and know that beneath the layers I have piled on over the years, I still have an exquisite depth within me.
The deep honouring of ourselves as women so beautifully shared Donna. Many women, myself included have not always lived with this level of self nurturing though this we can always change and the results are so divine to feel. The Esoteric Breast Massage supports this deep connection to our woman’s body.
So beautifully said Victoria – the Esoteric Breast Massages are indeed very special and super supportive of women. There is a deep nurturing quality within each of us that is more easily accessed with this amazing modality to support.
A so called ‘healthy life style’ is often nothing more than a ‘lovely’ way to hurt ourselves that buys us an indulging pattern of movement whereby we truly avoid looking at us, feeling us & connecting to ourselves.
Esoteric Breast Massage, is a beautiful modality that is a powerful healing modality that serves many women around the world, to support to live their life the most lovingly they can. All in the acceptance of who she is and the love she is born with. Learning how to let go of the critical ways that we have been fed with, and learn to actually allow our love back and live from this connection in our lives.
I know what an amazing woman you are, how committed you are to your healing and the way you live and it is completely inspiring. How you have supported yourself through the treatment is also something we can be inspired by.
Role model indeed – an inspiration from the word go and with the lived example that Donna offers, one cannot walk away feeling like the reflection has been anything but super supportive in deepening one’s own connection with our essence.
I can really see how this modality has supported you through a time that must have been very challenging for you and that it has helped you to get to the deeper reasons for why you got ill rather than just dealing with the symptoms and as a result I can sense in your words that you are not just a survivor of cancer but a thriver now in your life post cancer. Awesome blog thanks.
When we live through something, as you have Donna with breast cancer, then we know what works and what doesn’t and this brings a great sense of authority.
I agree Elizabeth, an experience that offers great inspiration also.
It is clear that conventional medicine is not coping on its own. In my own experience and the experience of many I have supported in illness, the Universal healing Modalities are what we could call the ‘missing link’ in medicine.
The support of Esoteric Breast Massages is amazing and has changed my life as a woman, to truly feel and appreciate the delicateness and sensitivity. Not a weakness anymore as I have reconnected to the power of these innate qualities we all have as women.
Agreed, I had no concept of the tenderness that I could feel in my body and that this could be a strength! The fragility was always something I ran away from thinking it would be abused but I was the one abusing myself the most when I felt how I had denied myself that connection.
The Esoteric Breast Massage is a wonderful healing modality for women because it creates a space for a woman to deeply connect with her essence. The more connected we are with our essence the more we are able to deal with whatever occurs in life, including illness and disease.
I cannot speak highly enough about the Esoteric Breast Massage and how supportive it has been for me in learning to love and cherish all of me, including my breasts.
The essence of every woman requires that we are self-nurturing in a way that honours who we really are.
A beautiful confirmation of how the Esoteric Breast Massage allows us to reconnect deeper within ourselves and at the same time exposes how we have been living and the choices we made.
A testimonial worthy of being published in every women’s magazine in the world.
I have often heard people say and said myself that Serge Benhayon seems to be talking directly to you, even in a room of hundreds of people. What I am coming to know is that it feels so personal and like it hits the nail on the head because he speaks from his body to your body. This is how we want to be spoken with, in union.
I have the same experience which shows how not only we are all connected but our issues and problems are very easily explained from an esoteric and energetic perspective and therefor brought back to very clear root causes that we can all recognise ourselves in.
We are more the same than we are different and our bodies resonate when they hear the truth – unifying of our true nature.
‘Healthy living” hence “healthy eating” is a killer because we believe it is good for us. When you enter the realm of good, you never question it. Yet, perhaps what we consider ‘healthy living and healthy eating’ is after all not that truly healthy.
An amazing testimony Donna, of how developing a loving relationship with our bodies leads us to be naturally guided to know what is precisely needed to nurture ourselves. Our relationship with our every part of our bodies offer us a reflection of how we can deepen our relationship with our sacredness as such live in greater connection to our Soul. Through EBM’s I have been inspired to deepen my relationship with self-nurturing as such now live with a deeper honouring and connection to the exquisiteness of my essence within.
Having lived my life in a lot of function, EBMs have been a huge support for me to stop and feel that there is so much more to me than simply what I do and achieve. I can feel my sass and sexiness as well as my grace, delicateness and power that lies when I’m expressing these qualities.
Watch out world! I love what you are sharing, it is great to have that connection with yourself and if you have that in the way you move then you offer that reflection and role modelling to women and girls around you. I embrace a world were young women are offered a reflection that celebrates who they are not fits in to an unreal image of how we think they are supposed to be.
Donna it seems we have been saying this for a long time, your blog here being written in 2014, and many blogs in between – written in the knowing of the healing that the EBM supports, the latest being just published on medicineandsergebenhayon.com. And absolutely all 100% honouring of this unique and specific modality.
Wow we can live a healthy lifestyle with the belief that the doing is what we need to get by – but in this we are discounting the quality we are as women. This is a powerful sharing that shows how there is so much to connect to as a woman and appreciate about ourselves – well above the yoga and diet.
“I know now that this was my body’s way of telling me that I wasn’t living in a way that was harmonious or nurturing.” This shows how much our body loves us and wants the best for us, and is in constant communication to show us that – be that a rash, a bloated stomach, a head ache or escalating to illness and disease.
Beautiful Donna, what you share with us is profound, how we as women can be with such reflection of breast cancer and how we are capable of going through the process of cancer with a loving and supportive understanding & care.
Very empowering and a basic human right for every woman to choose her own healthcare and what she personally finds supportive…
Love all that share Donna, to see the gift in a diagnosis is half the healing.
A very beautiful testimonial to the sacredness of the EBM modality and how it works so powerfully alongside conventional medicine. Bring the two together – conventional and esoteric medicine and the whole being can heal.
An amazing sharing Donna, thank you.
EBMs are amazing for supporting women to re-connect with the beautiful beings we are and allow ourselves to care for and nurture ourselves. You get to feel how precious you are and all the running around doing things to please is nothing without first having the love for yourself.
It must be very disillusioning to not only have to deal with a diagnosis of breast cancer but have the false foundation of a believed ‘healthy lifestyle’ pulled out from under you. This is the challenge but also the healing offered to break out of something that is not true or supporting your body. Even though something like yoga may give a sense of identity and temporary relief in the body, it is not ‘it’ if a 33 year old woman can still get breast cancer.
The importance of having support and understanding when you are healing from a major illness is invaluable. The Esoteric Breast Massage is not a cure for cancer or any other illness, but it offers understanding about lifestyle and how the body is affected by it, and this can be a great support in recovery.
This is the other part of the equation. 5 does not equal 7. But 5 + 2 does. If we choose to ignore the 2 we’ll be forever wondering why 5 and 7 don’t quite add up.
Thank you Donna, a great line here ” I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” This is such a huge leap for a woman to be able to feel this way about herself, it’s not how women generally feel and it highlights the powerful healing Universal Medicine and Esoteric Womens Health offer to women. Your story also highlights the connection towards how we feel about ourselves and how that can translate into ways of being and living that impact on our health. It’s beautiful to feel what’s unfolded for you and also reflect on those same changes within myself to truly love, cherish and honour me.
Empowering women to be more of who they truly are is an important step in all our evolution.
Beautiful Donna. I too would not be the woman I am today if it weren’t for this incredible modality. The Esoteric Breast Massage frees the woman up be herself, in the knowing that it is only through a body that is deeply nurtured and cared for, that the woman can bring what she is here to bring – Godliness in physical form. It is this that will heal not just the woman but the world at large.
To understand the true root of the illness, in this case breast cancer, and be on the path of true healing you certainly found the right person and organisation for this .. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine ✨ I have learned so much from them and healed so much with their support which is a continuing unfolding, healing and learning process.
Esoteric Breast massage is the most beautiful modality, it brings me back to myself in the deepest way.
What I can truly sense is the lack of understanding we have for ourselves as women.. We seem to come so loaded with ideals, images of how to be and want to look, how to behave and attract people etc.. But where does that come from? And is that who we really are or want to be?
Hence, we are currently in the result of our past, and it is lacking our true understanding. When we allow ourselves the space to observe our choices, life, movements, sounds – we will be stunned to see what happens and the clarity this brings to our life. Including the understanding for ourselves and each other as women (and beyond) that brings one big factor in us alive – LOVE.
This is a very important sharing Donna. Getting diagnosed with breast cancer while ticking all the boxes of what is normally considered taking great care of yourself is a real eye opener that something is missing from this picture. Your sharing is a confirmation of the importance of being in connection with ourself and nurturing from this connection rather than from a mental construct.
What once had worked no longer worked. By this I mean that we constantly evolve and need to adjust – this brings a more universality to earth.. As expansion goes beyond physical form.. Hence it is an interesting observation to see that this is what we as humanity are not so well at, we like to keep our restrictive or comfortable ways and avoid this responsibility of universality we then feel we are heading. Hence it is the fight against the light of expansion we need to stop and not so much the physical acts. It is a big choice of will that either connects us back to this universality or not. A gorgeous reminder that there is so much more to explore than our eyes can see.. We belong to something big… And it is our call when to make it.
Amazing how your relationship with yourself has changed Donna. You have it clear that even those of us that live ‘healthy’ lives are even in a chance of getting cancer. What is so apparent is that we aren’t taught that there is more to medicine than pills, liquid and surgery and in fact the simplest medicine like self nurturing and self appreciation goes a long way in improving our physical health.
You know it doesn’t take a lot for us to get back on track aligning and living the harmony, love and wisdom that is innately with our body and being but we do need the true energetic guidance in how to do this … queue Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for this is exactly what (among a trillion other incredible things) they bring.
What a beautiful sharing Donna of how conventional medicine and esoteric modalities marry together so seamlessly and effortlessly. That there is more to an illness or disease just presenting, that there is more to feel into for each person, to understand what and how it has presented, the actual origins and how to achieve true healing.
“Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me. I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” A beautiful testimonial of the deepening connection we can feel with the Esoteric Breast Massage.
To express what hurts us and not to hide it and allow it to fester is very good medicine for the body. To simply acknowledge that something hurts, that something is not okay, is very honoring and nurturing for ourselves. This process is always a deepening one and it is one which we continuously deepen the love and understanding for ourselves. Once this process is started, it is surrender that we learn. I know many people who would stop themselves from feeling any hurts for fear that once they start, they cannot cope with what will come from the many years of not feeling. But our bodies know what we can take, and no one has died from a deepening of love–but many harm themselves when we hold back our own love away from ourselves.
Esoteric Breast Massage is a modality that helps support women to re-connect with themselves and their breasts, much needed in our world.
This is beautiful Donna, and yes nurturing and honouring ourselves is imperative, ‘I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.’
With so many women contracting breast cancer, it would seem sensible to consider any complementary medicine modality that can support what can be at times a difficult treatment process.
Imagine a modality that offers the space to feel the love you are as a woman, to like what you see in the mirror simply because it reflects how you already feel inside, and to treasure your way of being with yourself. Such a modality is available – the Esoteric Breast Massage.
Donna what you share here is very inspiring and supportive for all women to read, the Esoteric Breast Massages are a beautiful way for a woman to re-connect to herself and to begin to self-nurture and self-care in a way that is tender and honouring of her in every way.
The Esoteric Modalities support me to connect to myself and are helping me to develop a loving relationship with my body. The modalities support me to feel good about myself which was sorely missing in my life before attending Universal Medicine. The Esoteric Modalities have changed and are changing how I am in the world.
It is very inspiring how you went through having breast cancer.
What an absolute blessing for all women – a modality that supports us to connect to our natural preciousness, womanliness, sacredness and power.
When a woman embraces her body and honours what she feels, self-worth issues can dissolve and the true power of that woman in her nurturing and sacred qualities can be lived and inspire others.
Thank you for providing this beautiful insight into what it was like for you to receive cancer diagnosis and treatment. I am astounded at the grace and acceptance you handled it all with. You clearly supported yourself in every way you could and it has paid off.
The Esoteric Breast Massage modality is deeply healing and nurturing and this is a testimony to how much your body has changed with the support of them ‘Having recently come off Tamoxifen, I have returned to having a normal period. My periods are very different to how they were pre-cancer. I no longer have pain, cramping or dark red clotting. My periods are heavy, but are a bright red healthy flow.’ AMAZING.
It’s extraordinary really how I lived what you could say was a normal life on the surface and I seemed like a good moral standing person of society but I was just fitting into the mould on what was accepted. I had been shaped by family, education and religious core beliefs that I was not so aware of were harming me. I did not love myself. I did not respect and was not guided how to self-care and nurture my body. My role models – e.g. sportsmen failed me.
Serge Benhayon and the Benhayon family have become my true role models that deeply inspire me in every way. From the love they express and honour everyone equally, to the integrity and dedication to how they work. They continue to be everything in every way how a human being should live.
It is great to hear how much benefit you have received from the Universal Medicine modalities.
And how great it is to read the experience of the many many people all over the world who have simply benefited from applying the tools given to live by our essence again.
The Esoteric Breast Massage offers something unique, and that is a space for a woman to be herself. Sounds small, but is everything.
Developing a relationship with our body and actually listening to what it is telling us promotes self-responsibility for our health and wellbeing. And in a world where the rates of disease are escalating this to me is both integral and essential to the very health of our conventional health care system.
Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) truly is a wonderful tool alongside conventional medicine and a great support even before we get sick or unwell as it restores us as women into our true nature of nurturing, stillness and reveals to us our preciousness.
“I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself” Yes you do, we all do, thank you for the reminder.
The Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) is a modality that truly supports women to re-connect with themselves and their breasts. Most women are not even aware of just how disconnected from their breasts they actually are-I know I certainly wasn’t aware of how disconnected from my breasts I was until I experienced the EBM. The depth of stillness that a woman can go to in the EBM is deeply healing and so very needed.
Its a very positive reflection you are offering to others Donna, as far as viewing the cancer as an opportunity to heal.
This article is allowing and showing others how they can support themselves further with what is a shocking and far reaching disease. It gives us all more understanding on what goes on and how modalities like the EBM can support in your treatment regime. With more and more people being touched by this each day it’s great to see this level of care available.
Stories like this inspire me to understand how much more there is to illness and disease. The opportunity they allow for healing and changing what has led to the illness in the first place. There is so much fear around it all, especially cancer, so hearing an empowering story such as this really breaks through that consciousness and delivers the blessing that the body is actually giving.
How very needed deeply nurturing ourselves is, is very much felt in your blog and most of all how very natural this actually is for us. So it is a relearning of what we know is true for us, step by step, living accordingly to the rhythm of our bodies.
It is gorgeous that you felt to share your experience and the appreciation you have for how Universal Medicine and the EBMs have supported you so profoundly to connect to yourself as a women and honour yourself in a way you deserve.
This is paramount really and a true test of how things support you, are you being treated by something that is adding to your woes or are you being treated by something that is bringing you clearer and supporting you to truly heal? From what I have seen personally and from what we are reading here the EBM modality is certainly supportive of a true healing and also working alongside our current traditional treatments.
Love how you present this Donna – I think a lot of women would love to have the room to speak about these things, if only they allowed themselves to. It seems however that the trend is not going this way but more on how heavy kettle bells you can lift and swing. More of these discussions please so that we can come back to truly looking after our precious bodies.
Thank you for sharing that Donna. It is really beautiful to hear how the women’s groups and the EBM have supported you. I feel they work so well in conjunction with the support available through doctors, they just bring a responsible body to the tests and the surgery. That has got to be beneficial all round.
I too had intense rashes on my body on and off for years, it was all the poison coming out of my body from the total disregard I had been living in. I am thankful now that I had the rash as at least the poison was leaving my body and not staying in as it would probably be cancer by now.
The journey of cancer is incredibly challenging, and to have access to a modality such as Esoteric Breast Massage to support you on that journey is without doubt a great gift.
Thank you Donna for a very inspiring story, about what cancer has shown you and the loving care you are giving to yourself. I have started EBMs again and am feeling what it is like to deeply nurture myself, feel what my body is sharing which gives me a greater sense of solidness in my body. EBMs are a very powerful modality bringing about true healing.
What could be a more positive outcome from Cancer than learning to embrace yourself, to love the person that you are? While its a huge diagnosis, its also a wake up call – a golden opportunity.
Donna your lived experience is totally inspiring, an article I feel that women all over the world truly benefit from. Thank you.
Donna while I was reading your honest blog I could feel your power when re-connecting to the woman deep inside of you. That feeling is for me very inspiring as it is seems to be a reflection of my own power deep inside of me.
I agree Ester, when we read of another expressing power, we feel it within us.
When I read this line Donna – “I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.”…I thought to myself, that’s it isn’t it. There has to be a deep knowing that you are that (as all woman are) and from that knowing, knowing that you deserve every ounce of love. And then set up a life where you can give that to yourself – in all the moments – the big and the small – but especially the small.
It is amazing that by bringing awareness to our breasts how this changes the relationship with ourselves and then the way we are with our whole bodies. Thank you Donna for sharing how supportive Esoteric Breast Massage is combined with conventional medicine. This is so valuable as often women have the gift of breast cancer but simply return to how they were living before the diagnosis. Maybe if more women took this route the secondary cancers may decrease.
Since going to The women in Livingness presentations and receiving EBM’s my relationship to my whole body and to myself as a woman is constantly developing. I am learning to appreciate myself more, and actually en-joy and celebrate being me. I have seen this in the women around me who also attend these presentations. Allowing, accepting and appreciating ourselves is antidote to any lack of self worth.
What an amazing story to read Donna, how you relied on conventional medicine, but also allowed the possibility for other healing to be there on offer throughout what can ordinarily be, a very emotional, sometimes drama filled time for women. To feel that there was more for you to heal other then just the cancer, to connect with yourself through the Esoteric Breast Massage, sounds like it was deeply profound.
Esoteric Breast Massage is such a gift for women. I had an EBM last week and felt how exquisite I am, and in that how powerful I am. I felt a connection within myself that I hadn’t felt before and it was strong, powerful and yet so very delicate – all qualities that I know myself to be.
It’s interesting how we have an image of what “healthy” is, yet our body can get very unwell because we are not truly living in a way that is supportive. Before coming to Universal Medicine I also saw “healthy” as a bit of a box ticking exercise, I paid attention to guidelines, studies and other literature, yet I was always struggling physically and emotionally. The self care I now live with, thanks to Universal Medicine, has transformed my health (and continues to do so), and it comes from the choices I make being about listening to and honouring my body, and treating myself with love and care. It’s a beautiful way to live that is a forever deepening of the love and care I can offer myself.
“Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me. I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am” Donna what you write hear is a miracle, to say that you deserve every ounce of love you can give yourself is truly healing and so refreshing. There are not many women who can say this -hence our world wide problem with illness and disease. You have broken the mould and in doing so stepped into claiming the gorgeous lady you are.
As I read your blog Donna, I could feel the sacredness of us as women and for us to live in honour of this is our true way forward.
It would be great to see this article in Breast Cancer awareness literature and spread widely so that many women can be inspired by the support that is on offer along with their medical treatments. It is empowering for us all to know that we equally play a significant part in our true overall healing. Thank you Donna.
Very touched by your story Donna and the love and true nurturing you now live with. I have also developed a deeper loving connection with my womanliness through receiving Esoteric Breast Massages.
Completely agree …”Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me” and this has made all the difference to my overall health and wellbeing
Esoteric Breast Massage is a powerfully transforming modality for all women – it is illuminating how much abuse we hold in our breasts, our lack of nurturing as women and hardness.
Thank you Donna for sharing your experience. What stood out is how we can fall into thinking we are self nurturing yet it can be only a concept, or a ‘doing’ activity towards ourselves, until you actually embody feeling, the self honouring quality of nurturing. The concept and the actual embodiment of nurturing are indeed poles apart. Having an Esoteric Breast Massage was the one way that really made me aware of the quality and feeling of ‘nurturing’. There was no tick box, or ‘doing’, but an all encompassing regard and love towards yourself.
So beautiful to read how your whole response to yourself and your body has changed since receiving esoteric breast massage Donna. It is indeed a wonderful modality alongside conventional medicine.
I absolutely agree with this sentence – “Esoteric Breast Massage – a wonderful tool alongside conventional medicine”. I love having this treatment. It is a modality that supports you to get honest about how you are living as a woman in the world and allows you to examine whether that way of living is harming or healing for you. You get to feel how every choice you make affects the body so it is a modality that brings great truth into a woman’s life.
Beautiful sharing Donna, I personally have experienced the Esoteric Breast Massage and have equally found them nurturing and instrumental in developing a deeper relationship with myself as a woman. Your story and how you have claimed that back for yourself is very inspiring.
When I first heard Serge Benhayon present that the underlying energetic cause of breast cancer in women is because they do not nurture themselves it just made so much sense. The Esoteric Breast Massage sessions I have allow me to feel a deep connection to my breasts and to my inner being as a beautiful and precious woman.
Donna it is very inspiring how you have nominated how you lived in the past that compromised your health. Many of us are afraid to really look into the reasons why we get ill but you did and by doing so you have provided true inspiration for many.
Great sharing, thank you.
Thank you for writing this blog Donna – “Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me. I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” The EBM modality is heaven sent for women, a powerful modality bringing the truth of the body to the woman and a definite pathway for healing if it is chosen.
This is such a transformative and deeply personal account of breast cancer, unlike anything on breast cancer I have read before, because here we are given a clear message that self nurturing is a vital part of life, and a lack of this nurturing actually can lead to illness and disease. Thank you Donna.
I love the fact that this is a personal story that cannot be argued with. This is Donna’s experience and no-one can question it. Stories like these can no doubt be challenging for people suffering the same condition, but they offer a different reflection from the usual beliefs that we have had about illness and disease and how to deal with it. If these stories are not told and shared, no-one will know any different.
Donna thank you for sharing your blog with such deep honesty. Self nurturing was never a word I held dear in my vocabulary either that is until I found Universal Medicine. Now my understanding of what it means to truly care and nurture myself is much more about being honest with how I feel from my body and going from there. It is an ever developing relationship with me and I love what my body now shares. Your words expressed here Donna will inspire many.
What I have found deeply healing and transformative through having EBM’s is that, it is a wonder in its tenderness and respect and it leaves a space for a woman to truly feel this quality and others within her and it also asks for equality, the client is involved in her own healing and empowerment, when she honours what she feels and is open to discussing it and being aware of what she feels in her body.
Donna I would love to hear more of your story and the details as it would be a huge support for many women. To be diagnosed with breast cancer so young and to hear about what you went through and what your experiences were like, to now what your life is like today, would be a great inspiration.
How powerful are Esoteric Breast Massages. What you have shared here is exquisite… “I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am. My relationship to my breasts has totally changed. Actually, my relationship to my whole body and to myself as a woman has changed and this continues to develop. For the most part, I love being me”
How often do we even think like this as women or think that we deserve to treat ourselves in this way? For a modality to be able to allow us to feel all of this, rather than seek a relief from our day, is bringing the opportunity of true evolution to women. Thank you Donna.
I feel very deeply touched by your sharing of this personal experience and inspired by how you allowed what you felt to be the guide for making changes in your life.
Thank you Donna, this is beautifully said. I agree, Esoteric Breast Massage is the most incredible healing technique for women’s health. I have had several EBM sessions with women practioners, which has offered me, every single time, an opportunity to feel all my nurturing ways and my relationship with myself. At times it has showed me how much I have been rejecting this nurturing quality inside me (one I had not practised for a long time). But yet I feel that this quality in me is untouched and perfectly present for me to breathe forth. So this modality has inspired me to be aware of my own breath and flow of energy in my body, which I am every single day wondered by. This connection I have with myself is deep, forever growing and truly loving. I had never been loving myself to this extent, and I am growing more and more. Thank you Universal Medicine.
Thank you for writing about your experience with Breast cancer and Esoteric Breast massage (EBM). Although I have not experienced breast cancer, I wasn’t a very self nurturing woman until I discovered Universal Medicine and this modality. Now, my understanding and practice of self nurturing has changed so much with the support of having regular EBMS. Each one is different and offers me something new to look at in myself, or sometimes something old that I need to go a little deeper with, but always a support in my journey back to living the love that I am in full.
That’s one of the very beautiful things I love too about the Esoteric Breast Massage Anna is that we are always offered more, more of who we are and connecting to that very precious quality that is within. There is never a perfection to reach or something more do do, just a deeper appreciation and acceptance of ourselves, which always invites a greater level of nurturing.
The changes that have occurred as a direct result of the choices you have made to ‘self-nurture”, are nothing short of incredible, an inspiration for us all Donna, thank you.
Your blog Donna is testimony to the fact that by practicing acts of self-love and care and treating our bodies with the same gentle tenderness we would a small child, absolutely improves our health, well-being and quality of life.
What a beautiful story Donna. What an amazing miracle you experienced recovering from Breast cancer, by taking responsibility and listening to your body and it’s needs, and sharing with us how beneficial esoteric Breast massage is inconjunction to conventional medicine.
It is amazing how our body talks to us constantly. How it readjust itself is a true miracle even after clearing such a serious disease. It is beautiful to read that you were open to change patterns and beliefs and started to truly self love.
Its great that you are finding your way back to living more honestly, and listening to the body more.
Donna thank you for sharing your story. There is something truly extraordinary about the Esoteric Breast Massage modality. After receiving my first EBM I felt a depth of connection to myself that was completely new and very welcome. I felt deeply nurtured by my treatment and honoured as a woman. Reading about your experiences I can see how powerful the EBM modality is, and how supportive it is for anyone with Breast Cancer. Donna, I would love to see a sequel of where you are now.
Donna it’s beautiful you could feel so supported in your journey with breast cancer, and after treatment. Developing this connection with yourself sounds like it has been very beneficial and stood you in good stead from there after. How often is this the case with breast cancer I wonder? Surely you are an inspiration to many in how you have worked through what you have.
I agree Amelia, Donna’s experience and recovery from breast cancer could inspire so many, and this is an illness that affects millions each year.
Yes Donna, the true benefits that come from Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) is incredible. Being born in a woman body, I never had felt connected to what a woman is until I attended an EBM session. It was so beautiful, as I was feeling so much femaleness inside, even though I had not felt this in my life before, I could feel a familiarity with it. I knew this femaleness and it is very precious. I felt that all those ideals & believes that I had been walking around were straight away seen as they felt as a lie to me, while before I was convinced that that was ‘being a woman’. This astonished me, as it broke down all the ways I have been walking around on earth that I was not holding myself in truth as a woman. And it gave me a huge strength to acknowledge that in my body and make than anything else. My true connection to womanhood was back again – and it is my learning to stand in it all of the time.
The connection that I feel to me as a woman within an EBM session is a marker in my body that I now recognise as me as a woman. The tenderness, the preciousness and beauty of me that is gorgeous. Having regular EBM’s to support me in my connection back to me as a woman offers the support to begin to truly live this in my day to day life.
Danna as I read your comment I realised that one of the beliefs that I had was that I was less because I was a woman and therefore identified myself in a whole variety of ways for me to feel my worth. It was not something that was obvious, but it was definitely an undercurrent to how I behaved, acted and held myself. I am, like you much more connected to knowing myself as a woman and it’s wonderful to read blogs such as Donna’s to feel inspired by other women too. We have so much to share and so much to bring.
An inspiring read Donna as you share your experience. It was so loving and powerful to read: I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am’. From a deep lack of self-worth, I too have come to realise that I too ‘deserve’ all the love that is there for me, and that it is so very loving to honor myself in all that I do. Yes, I have come a long way, and the esoteric breast massage has also been a fantastic support in my unfoldment along with the esoteric chakra puncture.
Thank you Donna for sharing your way back to the true woman you are. Isn’t it amazing, when we read the diseases we get and learn from the message your body gives us?! You definitely did.
Thank you Donna for sharing your experience. It is amazing to hear of your transformation. I have recently experienced the Esoteric Breast Massage and have found it a very beautiful and non-imposing modality. Through having these sessions I have felt a stronger connection to my body, the woman in me and my potential. I also have a greater awareness of the unhealthy patterns I have been in such as shame and lack of appreciation for me . I’m looking forward to seeing what unfolds as I have more sessions.
Yes the Esoteric Breast Massage certainly is sent from heaven. I can’t think of any other treatment that I have had that has assisted me to connect in a way to myself as a woman as the EBM. It is a sacred modality that I feel deeply grateful for having come across.
An amazing and power-full blog you have shared with us Donna. The Esoteric Breast Massage is a beautiful healing modality supporting women to re-connect deeply with themselves offering a true healing.
Women so much deserve to be truly supported in being the wonderful precious beings they are. The EBM is definitely one of the most amazing modalities to do so as I can testify to by simply seeing and feeling the radiance a woman is surrounded by after having an EBM treatment and the longterm changes in the women I know.
I can feel the importance and the preciousness of the Esoteric Breast Massage modality, Donna Gianniotis. It provides a great support in reconnecting to the nurturing quality women so naturally are but have walked away from. The nurturing quality is so needed in our societies because it has the power to restore true health and wellbeing into our lives.
Wow Donna. Many thanks. I have had had a few unsubtle warning signs from my body about the consequences of the pace I was living my life. The questionable lumps I found in my breasts were, on more than one occasion a potential breast cancer. So I figured why wait. Why not live now as I would if I had had the positive result that I was so fear-full of. Esoteric breast massage has been the turning point for me. It has been the most solid support for me to feel what my body is not liking and I therefore have a choice to change it. Thank you for reminding me of that. It is cheap and sensational to make it about anything else.
You make a great point here Lucy about any lumps in our breasts being potential breast cancers. They may not actually be cancer (thank goodness), but the energy of a lump is still the same energy of lack of self-nurturing, therefore I say we should listen to all of the signals that our bodies are offering us. I had a new lump show up on my recent scans and I was relieved it wasn’t cancer, but I am not taking it lightly as I know it is a signal from my body that I need to go deeper in my self-nurturing and expression.
What a beautiful blog, I love this line “I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” Since finding Universal Medicine I’m on that exact same path Donna. It’s a big step to feel we deserve every ounce of love we can give to ourselves, and it has such positive effects on our health and wellbeing.
Thankyou for your post Donna. “Since having the EBMs I have been able to connect more to me. I’m able to feel that I am a beautiful, amazing woman, that I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” Gorgeous to feel this in your writing. I too have felt more of my own womanliness and am connecting more to my sacredness since receiving EBMs. The combination of conventional and esoteric medicine is surely the way forward.
Donna has shown a great respect for conventional medicine as well as a real dedication to her own healing. This is a great example of how medicine, healing and self-responsibility work as a partnership. It is the only way forward.
What a great example of the power of conventional medicine and the Esoteric Breast Massage in bringing about true healing.
So true-The combination of both is a true blessing to have if you got really sick.
Very true Penny Scheenhouwer. Imagine EBM being a recommended treatment when a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and that information being available to her.
Amazing blog, thank you dearly Donna for sharing your experience. It is beautiful to read and feel how you now love and nurture yourself and have accepted the beautiful woman you are. The Esoteric Healing Modalities are deeply healing and a very supportive tool to use alongside western medicine.
Such an awesome sharing Donna, what a blessing you were able to see that this was not something that just happened to you but it was the result of how you had been living.
This is the most powerful step in healing to acknowledge our past choices and take responsibility for what we can do differently. By being open to this you allowed this beautiful miracle that is you to unfold.
I agree Samanthaengland, and that there is so much more to cancer than just a tumour that randomly appears, and rather an opportunity to look at all the ways we have been living that have not served us (and in that not truly served others) and that the body has a deep wisdom and guidance if we allow it.
Absolutely Annie “the body has a deep wisdom and guidance if we allow it” Donna has shown us that illness and disease can be a gate way to that wisdom.When we truly choose to open up and listen to the messages our bodies have been trying to communicate with us the potential for evolution is enormous.
This is huge Samantha. Recently a friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and she said she was not surprised at all given her recent lifestyle choices. Not something that we hear very often, but super inspiring to hear someone taking responsibility, without blame, for their choices.
‘My relationship to my breasts has totally changed. Actually, my relationship to my whole body and to myself as a woman has changed and this continues to develop. For the most part, I love being me.’ I can very much relate to this, thanks to the Esoteric Breast Massages and loving and dedicated practitioners of this modality.
Yes Esther the Esoteric Breast Massage practitioners are truly inspiring women who walk their talk. I am deeply grateful for their ongoing support and reflection that they offer.
Donna this is so beautiful. The way you describe what your body showed you about the way you were living is eye opening and inspiring. I have started to pay attention to my body too and realise it gives me messages loud and clear when something is not right for me. It is an incredibly empowering way to live life, knowing yourself.
Women and self-nuturing are big and crazy topics. We are such beautiful nurturers but we rarely treat ourselves with this great gift. We almost fight it at times (I know I have) instead of embracing it. Lovely to hear of your story of you embracing your nurturing self to look deeply after yourself
I agree sarahflenley we all need to learn how to deeply self-nurture then we can share this nurturing energy with others. Most of us have not taken up our naturally nurturing ways with others yet as we cannot in truth nurture another if we are not nurturing ourselves first.
Reading your words Donna, I could feel how much we can hold our hurts so deeply within while we are seemingly unaware that they are there. Yet when we begin to get honest with ourselves these hurts are always visible and it is our body who never waivers in presenting us with the truth. It is amazing to know that with the support of Universal Medicine and it’s many amazing modalities we are presented with the opportunity to go that little deeper, become more honest with ourselves and begin to see that the way we choose to live is just that our choice. Thank you for sharing your journey back to you Donna.
Thank you Donna for your beautifully expressed blog. As always when I read what someone else shares from their heart I am inspired…. and from that inspiration I learn and evolve myself.
I have experienced eczema at various points during my life, mainly in my childhood but at around the age of 30 it really stopped and made me look at the way I was living my life, as it was around my eyes and on my hands which made it very difficult to ignore. I can really feel that it was my bodies way of making me stop, which I did, and I began making various changes that were more caring and considerate of myself. Every now and then I get a little patch of eczema, in an unusual place, and I know I need to stop and look at a part of my life and address it. Our bodies are so intelligent, all we have to do is listen, not ignore the signs it gives us, and we have the perfect recipe for life within us.
It’s awesome Laura that you have taken that stop moment that your body has offered you and not waited until it was something more drastic like cancer. Our bodies are constantly talking to us offering feedback as to how we have been living. I recently had a cyst detected on my right breast and although it is benign I am using it as an opportunity to address what I need to look at that my body is showing me and not wait for it to be cancer.
We have all the answers if we are willing to listen, take responsibility for how we have been living and be open to another way. I find that many people are just not able to accept any responsibility for what happens to them in life, and this prevents them from living in a way that truly supports and empowers them.
What an impact it has on the womanly body, when we truly honour ourselves. I had this change in my periods as well because I chose to treat my body differently. Amazing of what our body is capable of to change and reveal in pain or illness.
Yes Steffi, it’s amazing that we can live for so long thinking that period pain is something that just happens to us. It has been incredible to feel the difference of how my periods have changed from immense pain to none at all from living in a way where I now honour my body and myself as a woman.
I love these golden words Donna “I deserve every ounce of love that I can give to myself, to be self-honouring in all that I do, to love the woman that I am.” I can really feel this and inspires me to live that love for me too.
And what is beautiful Samantha is that this love for self continues to grow and deepen and it doesn’t stop. What I am finding is that the more I am able to self-accept and love myself, then I feel this love more and more for others so the love extends beyond self.
Beautiful empowering blog, Donna where you take responsibility for the way you lived your life. A lot of people would have say: you lived a healthy life so how come you got cancer? The influence of lifestyle choices has come more and more accepted to western medicine doctors. I have come to realize more and more how much details there are in nurturing myself. Something that was nurturing yesterday cannot be the thing for today. Also nurturing is so much more than the obvious things like ‘taking a bath’.
I absolutely agree Monika, in regards to what was self-nurturing when I wrote that blog several years ago is very different to what is self-nurturing for me now. It amazes me how it continues to deepen all of the time if we open and allow ourselves to go deeper with it. I have recently realised that it is easy to plateau with my self-nurturing but my body is constantly calling me to go deeper and it is up to me to choose to respond to the call.
Yes, Donna I totally agree, as we start to self nurture our body asks us to go deeper. It is beautiful to feel the unfolding, and deepening of our connection to our true selves, through the Esoteric Breast Massage.
I can really get that ‘self-nurturing’ was initially just a concept. For me, Esoteric Breast Massage, or any other esoteric modalities for that matter, offers an opportunity to connect with my inner-most, so that I have the marker of being me as the bodily experience, and this has supported me greatly in deepening the way I nurture myself.
Thank you Donna for sharing your story, I have been avoiding the breast massage sessions, but I feel inspired by your story to take part in these sessions for myself.
Great sharing Donna. I love how you describe coming back to you in this whole process and how much we are sidetracked by all those alternative medicine and modalities that make us believe that we live healthy. Why are we so good in ignoring our bodies messages? I always felt very disempowered as there was never ever a true answer to something only a half way solution until I came to Universal Medicine and suddenly everything made sense. Today I don’t see illness and disease and everything what is happening to us not anymore as something occurring to us out of context, but deeply related to the way we live.
Thanks for your blog Donna. It demonstrates what is possible when one establishes a connection to self and is truly honouring of their body.
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences here Donna. It’s amazing to feel the transformation you went through, from self loathing to self love.
That’s a before and after right their Donna.
I loved reading your blog Donna and have also felt how supportive the EBM treatments are for me look at what self nurturing means and that my choices have not been anywhere near self loving. Very inspiring, thank you.
Thank you for sharing your story Donna – I especially loved what you wrote about deserving every ounce of love that you can give yourself – just gorgeous.
I find it truly inspirational that a (young) woman with breast cancer sees the experience as an opportunity to look at how they have been living and then go forward making true changes. Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for sharing your experience of developing a self nurturing and self loving relationship with your body. This makes a huge difference in our lives.
Thank you, Donna, for this inspiring article. There is much loving wisdom here, from which we can all greatly learn and benefit.
What really touched me today was this:
“However, I knew from the moment of the diagnosis that this wasn’t something that happened to me. I had a feeling somewhere deep in my body that this was the result of how I had been living.”
This was certainly true for me too, and I feel this is true for everyone who has been diagnosed with cancer. Knowing this empowers us to look at the way we have been living and make true changes, so that the diagnosis offers us an opportunity for true healing.
What a grace – that the diagnosis led you to this:
“For the most part, I love being me. It’s a far cry from the person I used to be – to wake up each morning and not want to be me.”
Now that is true medicine.
Anne, I’ve often wondered if others who have been diagnosed with cancer have also felt that their illness is a result of their past choices. It is great to hear that you have had a similar experience. I remember feeling very empowered at the time knowing that there was more for me to discover about why I had the cancer. This led me to look for answers outside as well as along with conventional medicine which eventually led me to Universal Medicine.
Thank you Donna, your contribution demonstrates that conventional medicine and esoteric medicine go hand in hand, enrich each other and truly benefit the patient to gain a much deeper understanding of what is going on, something we quite often already have an inkling of but aren’t normally supported in.
I can really relate to hearing about certain concepts (such as self-nurturing) but finding the words washing over me without touching me inside. It is only when you feel it in your body that you can relate to it. I have found that Universal Medicine practitioners are unique in that they actually know what they are speaking about from their own bodies and I can feel that when they speak. Even when I believe I have no lived experience of a quality such as self-care or self-nurturing, I can feel it in them and that starts the ball rolling within me.
This is something I can completely relate too – where I can hear the words being spoken but they mean very little to me – being foreign concepts I know little of. However from Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine practitioners there is a marked difference, the words come from a livingness, from their own bodies and that can be felt and that then resonates through my own body too. The process then begins.
Thanks for sharing your amazing journey Donna. It’s great to hear of your experiences showing it is possible to turn around difficult periods and other issues by applying such beautiful simple principles of self care.
This is such a powerful story. Undoubtedly Donna, being diagnosed with cancer, and also at such a young age, would have been an intense event, and subsequent time, in your life. That you were willing to look more deeply into why such an illness occurred stands testament to an inner strength that (it feels clear to me) you already held.
Such willingness to go deeper, and look at and begin to live what deeper nurturing can be, that you now radiate such amazing vitality and deeply glow as the beautiful woman you are, is a mark of true strength to me… strength that is derived from a fundamental knowing that we are so much more than what we may have been led to believe.
Thank-you for this sharing, and your honesty. Deeply poignant and inspiring.
Thank you Donna. It’s amazing how you were doing ‘everything right’ on the surface, and yet your body showed you that this was not true. I am very glad you listened to your body and can share this story of nourishing you. What if we were all to see cancer and illness as a messenger, that there might be a lovelier way to be?
‘I deserve every ounce of love that I can give myself’ – wow what amazing words. I fully agree the Esoteric Women’s Health modalities are completely life changing.
Donna awesome to read your experience with Breast Cancer and it seems to be one that is becoming more and more common. I haven’t had breast cancer but I know if I continued the way I was living with all the disregard that I had create towards myself I was well on the way to being one of the growing figures breast cancer is today. The Esoteric Breast Massage is an amazing modality to support all woman to feel their innate tender quality that loves to be nurtured. One that is forever expanding and deepening and feels so special.
Esoteric Breast Massage is powerful, confronting and allows us to feel the choices we have made with (and too often without) regard to the fact that we are women.
My sessions have been confronting and at times painful (physically and emotionally). I have also felt that there is a depth to me and a tenderness that I had not previously experienced in my everyday life. I understand that the feeling I have felt in those sessions is not just reserved for the treatment room. It is innate in me and always there, should I so choose it.
Thank you Donna for sharing your experience of the Esoteric Breast Massage and what it revealed for you, and has allowed you to release..
I feel inspired by your blog Donna, and I am sure it will be a huge support to women in general, but especially so to those, with a diagnosis of breast of breast cancer.
Thank you Donna for a very clear explanation of just how much Universal Medicine and the Esoteric Breast Massage treatments support us to re-connect to who we truly are and hence provide an enormous opportunity for true healing. As you say, “It wasn’t intellectual, but was a felt sense that came from my body.” Your experience clearly demonstrates that simply doing things because we think they are healthy is not true nurturing and can still lead us into illness. True nurturing is energetic first and foremost and the Esoteric Breast Massage certainly supported me to feel that for myself too. When we connect to the delicate, sweet essence within us, the nurturing stillness that naturally resides within, we can find our way ‘home’ and begin taking deep care of ourselves. And I agree, Esoteric Breast Massage and all the esoteric modalities presented by Universal Medicine are a great compliment to conventional medicine.
Thanks for sharing so honestly Donna. It’s nice to hear your story and to know you today as the gorgeous woman you are 🙂
Thank you Donna for sharing your inspiring story, it so confirms the wisdom of our bodies, ever willing to let us know through various symptoms what we need to take notice of. It is inspiring also to read how through the Esoteric Breast Massage you were able to self heal and re-connect with the beautiful woman you are. In my experience this is an ever- deepening process.
Great, honest and clear article Donna. It’s a really wonderful insight for anyone reading, as to the deep relationship to yourself that has developed. This is enriching for men to read as well as women.
Thanks Donna, for the sharing of your journey with cancer and the great complimentary healing benefits of the Esoteric Breast Massage techniques in reconnecting and self nurturing.
A great sharing Donna, thank you for your honesty. So beautiful to feel how you embraced self-nurturing and honouring you and connected more deeply to the amazingness of you. Awesome.
Thank you Donna for sharing your story of your breast cancer and finding the EBMs and how they have inspired such a deep level of self-nurturing. I hope many women read this so that they too can be inspired to recognise and live in a way that we women deserve every ounce of love we can give ourselves.
I agree josephine -it is inspiring to read of the possibility of the love we can offer to ourselves, and the opportunity for true healing that then can unfold
Finding a link between how you are living and the illnesses that they create puts you back in the driving seat – its plain to see the motivation you have to make changes, and the immediate benefits of a more nurturing lifestyle. The longer term benefits are on their way!
Very inspiring blog Donna. from the moment you were diagnosed you knew that the cancer didn’t come ‘to’ you but that it came ‘from’ you. Because of that understanding you took responsibility for your choices and allowed your body to experience true healing. Awesome.
Wow Donna what a beautifully inspiring blog, thank you for sharing your journey with breast cancer and your experience of Universal Medicine and the Esoteric breast Massage.
This is such an inspiring blog, thank you. To connect to that level of self-nurturing you talk about is something I manage to do occasionally. Learning to love and honour myself as a woman is an ongoing process that exposes the huge disregard that I and many other women have been living in. I still come up against my resistance to truly nurturing myself, and can feel the effect of this in my body. I may not have a rash, and I may not have cancer, but the energy of disregard is still there. I am learning to respect and appreciate my body for showing me how I have been living, therefore developing a tender relationship with myself. A work in progress…
Beautifully said Rebecca. Your words resonate deeply with me. Very much a work in progress and a constant opportunity to deepen our self-nurturing.
Beautiful Donna, thanks for sharing your experience of breast cancer and the Esoteric Breast Massage. What I feel when I read your article is how simple and yet deeply powerful and healing self-nurturing is for women.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience, what touched me deeply is the realisation that there is such a healing in allowing our buried hurts to come out. Thank you Donna.
Wow Donna I love what you have shared here. I couldn’t agree more the Esoteric Breast Massage is a deeply supportive modality for all women including women who have experienced breast cancer as you have so beautifullly shared.
Donna I have just reread you blog and can feel how much what you have shared offers women, especially women with a cancer diagnosis. Thank you.
I agree Sharon, it would be so supportive for women with a cancer diagnosis to read Donna’s story. The insights shared in this blog are very inspiring.
Absolutely Amina. Humanity would do well to sit up and notice a story like this. Thank you Donna for sharing.
Thank you Donna for sharing your journey with breast cancer, your blog is very inspiring.
Is it not sad that we ‘wait’ for cancers to strike to look at how we live and choices we make? Is it not even more sad that when like through your own example Donna, people get an opportunity to get shown that there is another way – here is the real you, real cancer, real improvement with the marriage of allopathic and complementary medicine from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners, yet instead of at least showing a minute inquisitiveness, those very people who have inspired you to change get slandered! How much more would cancer rate and illness and disease have to shoot up for the world to stop and say, hey, “something is (really) rotten in the state of Denmark”?
I agree Dragana, it is sad that “we ‘wait’ for cancers to strike to look at how we live and choices we make?” I know for me it has been so easy to get caught up in things, with living how I felt the world wanted me to, essentially with blinkers to the truth on. There is another way and thanks to Serge Benhayon I have been shown it along with countless others; we are in fact reversing the trend of illness and disease worldwide.
Well said draganabrown and jamesnicholson27. Donna’s story is one example of the enormous support that the work of Serge Benhayon delivers to all.
I agree that it is indeed sad that we wait until we have cancers (or other diseases etc) before we listen to our bodies.
A beautiful example of esoteric medicine and conventional medicine working together and a beautiful example of esoteric modalities and your inner most working as one.
Great comment Sally – it is a divine combination and one that offers humanity so much. When we choose to get outside help and also access our own inner wisdom and honestly look at what has been going on for ourselves – the combination can be miraculous.
I agree Sally, we can use illness as an opportunity to deepen our understanding of ourselves and how we have reached that condition.. and the esoteric modalities provide an enormous support to give us the clarity and space to truly understand what is underneath.
Thank you Donna for sharing your words with us, I feel deeply inspired by what you write. You are a true example to a lot of women.