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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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.
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.
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.
Its a very positive reflection you are offering to others Donna, as far as viewing the cancer as an opportunity to heal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I agree that it is indeed sad that we wait until we have cancers (or other diseases etc) before we listen to our bodies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.