Let me inspire your breast care journey.
Every woman deserves the best breast care experience, and today I am writing to share that exercise has so many great benefits when it comes to breast cancer prevention or a breast cancer experience.
Of course, technology and treatment has helped me, but exercise is clearly part of the top reasons for my having healed. Sports injected lightly, positivity and strength. Rethinking my nutrition became vital as well, eliminate everything that could feed a cancer.
It reduced my tiredness. It’s mechanical, physical and it’s magic!
I found MY inspiration and keys to success.
This blog post is really about my personal journey, so don’t forget to get your doctors and surgeon’s approval for sports, before you start or pick-up from where you stopped.
As a start, on my own journey, I didn’t always need to go to a gym. I stayed at home and found space and used my own body weight. I’ll share a part of my journey here and then dedicate a chapter to each step in my treatment journey. This will be available for you in the complete version of this blog when you have more time to read.
No breast care or breast cancer journeys are similar. They are all different, we are all different and we all react differently. What I do know, is that we may all go through the same kind of feeling of tiredness. We might think that sleep is our best friend and that it’s what we need to prioritize. Sleep…sleep more to be able to use our last strengths to care for our family and do what we can to help at home and at work when getting home after our treatments.
I’ve always practiced a lot of sports but had a hard stop the day I received my diagnostic. I put everything aside while my mind, body and soul were completely busy looking for ways to accept my new situation, looking for reasons to get up in the morning and to manage the agenda for all appointments to start treatment and undergo the first surgeries.
When I started cell therapy, a good friend of mine offered me a book, written by a famous Swedish famous. She became my model, my inspiration. She shared her story, how she counted the points after each winning step in her fight against breast cancer…1 to me, 0 to cancer…2-0…3-0. She was amazing in the way she challenged herself during her journey. How she trained to get back on track and fit for a famous marathon. I was struck by her story and decided to take back control of my life too! My hope is that I can give you this same “kick” like she did with me.
One day, during my cell therapy, I put on some music, pushed the volume higher and higher and then I started to dance. I danced, jumped, moved my body in all directions. Without realizing I started testing my physical limits and pain threshold. I could feel my scars being stretched a bit, but I felt so good, my body didn’t limit me. I felt free for the first time in months and I danced like I’ve never danced before! If I can call it a dance…?! I realized that my body wasn’t a prison anymore.
I ended up dancing and…kick- boxing. I guess my mind and body took over the game and showed my enemy that he had knocked on the wrong door.
So, I was dancing and boxing in the air, uppercuts and side cuts, kicking… like I had my enemy right in front of my eyes!
As of that day, I couldn’t go without exercising every day. Only surgeries would stop me for some days, but I was fully decided to get rid of my enemy trough treatments and eliminate any treatment side effects.
I could see the results in the side effects very quickly. No or low nausea, slept less, better appetite. I felt strong and healthy, fit to continue to cope as a mom and wife… and live like any other normal day.
Understanding the benefits
As I evolved in my journey, my body changed and the sooner I could accept that, the sooner I felt better and recovered the positive mindset I needed to win.
Cardio clearly boosted my mood, helped me sleep better, and reduced my stress.
Resistance and strength exercises helped to fix muscle imbalance and weakness after surgeries.
Flexibility , so important to not feel like a prisoner in my own body.
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