Slowing down isn’t lazy. It’s medicine for your nervous system, and it might be the missing piece in your cancer story.

In this episode, I walk through the years leading up to my cancer diagnosis and why I believe stress was the common thread that set the stage. Caregiving for my mom through her stage four cancer, swallowing grief, pushing through burnout, even over-exercising, it all added up. There is a big difference between acute and chronic stress, how it hijacks your immune system, and why it matters for cancer prevention and healing. There are some simple, practical tools that calm your body that anybody can start doing today. It’s about building awareness and reshaping the terrain inside your body so it can finally start to repair.

You’ll Learn:



• What happens inside your body when cortisol and adrenaline stay elevated for too long
• The link between chronic stress and weakened immune surveillance against abnormal cells
• Why my genetic testing showed no inherited cancer risk and what that revealed about environment
• How chronic stress can flip on inflammatory pathways through epigenetics
• Practical tools that quickly move your body from fight-or-flight into rest-and-repair
• The role of boundaries, sleep, and slowing down as medicine for your nervous system
• Why awareness is the first step to breaking free from chronic stress

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[03:37] Finding out my Mom was sick with cancer

[07:55] Grief, PTSD, therapy, and trying to get my life back on track

[10:02] Deciding to start a family and ineffective fertility drugs leading to a benign pituitary tumor diagnosis

[12:18] Vivid dream of my Mom around her 1 year death anniversary, and a horrible feeling the bad news was not over

[13:47] Visiting my doctor for neck pain, joking about how I wanted to make sure I didn’t have cancer, running tests and an X-ray

[15:31] A call from my doctor and my cancer diagnosis

[26:52] Practical tools for breaking away from chronic stress

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