299 thoughts on “How Cancer has Changed my Life.”

1. What an inspiring blog to read, thank you for sharing Fiona, I wondered how many people can say this
   “I awake feeling love in my body and joy at another day. Things no-one can ever take away from me.”
   Very few I imagine and yet in spite of everything you have shared you were able to wake up each day feeling the love and joy in your body. It’s interesting that the support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has been a contributing factor, as he was also with me, supporting me to extract myself out of ill mental health back to feeling full of vitality.

2. Fiona, thank you for the reminder that ‘illness is not a failure; it is a clearing’…When we are unwell, we can get so caught up on feeling something is wrong and not seeing the clearing. I needed to read this confirmation whilst going through an unpleasant clearing, I hadn’t seen the joy in it…

3. Thank you Fiona. Your sharing is priceless. It supports me deeply to accept today that I’m cold, quite weak and with my nose completely blocked. Your words are so alive that opened up a new way of being with me without rigidity but playfullness and tenderness. Loving myself no matter is being a work in progress for me, this morning I resisted and found difficult to appreciate the clearing my body is experiencing however this shows me a clear insight about the unloving ways in which I’m sometimes with myself…demanding, expecting, pushing, trying hard, doing to prove that I’m worthy….so such a blessing actually is being sick! for the opportunity to stop and see all what I’m realizing about and to be more gentle, caring and understanding with the precious woman I actually am.

   1. If these blogs that are written can support one person to stop and consider making changes, as you have done Inma, in how to take care of themselves, then that to me is the domino effect that is needed to change the world. How we are with ourselves has an effect on other people, this will change our society, not protesting and marching or rioting in the streets. The silent revolution.

4. “It may be a cold or a spot which makes you stop and look at the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?” Reading this got me to stop and think what if rather than the condition getting to such an extent to make me stop that I could stop and ask this question of myself.

5. “I remarked to a friend that I would rather have had the cancer than be how I was before the illness.” I know this feeling and even though I haven’t had cancer I have had many colds and throat infections to know the feeling of your body saying ‘STOP’. It always offers a moment to reflect on how I have been living and to allow myself to change my ways so I don’t keep going in a way that disregards the body. For example when I pressure myself too much at work I can get ill, or when I sympathise too much with others I do get ill.

   1. These ‘STOP’ moments are so essential to remind us how we are living. The question is, do people see this as an opportunity to regather, take stock and redefine? Most often not, until a huge boulder hits them, then they view life from a different perspective. Every illness, minor of major is a clearing, are we prepared to view from this perspective, or from the victim’s perspective. It’s the individuals choice in how they view things, is the simplicity of healing.

6. “I would rather have had the cancer than be how I was before the illness” – to be able to say that, not with irony or fake optimism, is just beyond amazing. It really makes one question what life then truly is, and how the majority is choosing the comfort of discomfort, and exposes the game we indulge in by creating more struggle when we fight the ‘misery’ that we have created for ourselves.

7. Each time I read this it blows me away on another level, there is such an acceptance in what Fiona offers us here, in her own situation and the complete non-judgement of how others reacted to it. And as she puts it so beautifully ‘I awake feeling love in my body and joy at another day. Things no-one can ever take away from me.’ What a gift to have and live.

8. “I pondered on all these comments and wondered why it is assumed by many that illness means misery.” This is a great point, because everyone assumes that if you are ill, you no longer feel joyous or playful, a person maybe ill, but it does not define who they are.

9. Cancer can be a beautiful opportunity to clear our body of old patterns that have not supported us in the past, and gives us an opportunity to change our choices and be super loving and supportive towards ourselves.

10. You have proven it’s possible to love and enjoy life no matter what your circumstances – could it be that it’s not what is occurring in our lives but the way we approach it that defines the outcome of how we feel day to day?

11. So many gems of wisdom here, it completely breaks through the consciousness that illness is random and cancer is something to battle. This is also a great question and a loving stop moment to bring into my day “Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?”

12. I love what you are saying here Fiona that who we really are is always there inside just waiting to be re-connected to and is it possible that life is constantly asking us to deepen that connection?

13. ‘Illness is not a failure’ yet an opportunity to go deeper in the relationship we have with ourselves through our body.

14. I love your question about what healing actually is. For most people it is about getting rid of the symptoms, surviving with a disease or illness and growing very old. Yet true healing is about evolution and returning to our divine origin.

15. ‘Could it be that if we have been looking at illness and disease in a false light, considering it to be due to bad luck, a virus, an accident, genetics, a punishment, an inconvenience etc instead of seeing it as the loving stop we needed to get back into a rhythm that supports us to be all that we are?’ We do know what is good for us and what not, but our choice to blame something outside us is often easier. Otherwise the truth of what we have done to ourselves gets exposed.

16. The wisdom shared by this inspiring woman is after some years also my experience: ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are’. Although it took me a very long time to not question an illness with and punish myself ‘what did I do wrong?’

17. Re-defining illness and disease as well as the true meaning of healing and always with a lightness of touch and a sharing of joy – thank you for bequeathing us such a beautiful legacy Fiona.

18. Your reflection and the memory of your smile and approach to life, health and wellness shines long after your body has done what it needs to do, and we all have an opportunity to be inspired by that to consider if there is another way to be in every moment, not just when we get a diagnosis that rocks our foundations.

19. How about that, the true cure to ill-health (in addition to conventional medicine) is halting the ill-behaviour and way of living that preceded the illness. From here we can build a new and more loving relationship with self.

20. I love this Fiona. There is such a lightness and joy in what you share that inspires and supports us to understand the true purpose of illness

    1. I agree Kehinde. It’s actually a blessing finding someone like Fiona who lived with such a contentment despite what she experienced at a physical level. This shows us that we are much more than flesh and bones and we can’t help but smile when we know that our purpose in life is return to the sons of God we really are.

21. The idea of “You are far too happy – You can’t be ill” is one that is held by many. Illness is serious and especially when it is a life threatening disease like cancer. You think you ought to be depressed, full of sorrow and regret, feel pity with yourself and given up with life, angry to God of what has happened to you and so on. But not joyful, that is absolutely not accepted as a ‘normal’.

    1. It is clear we need to throw out the word ‘normal’ and embrace a blank canvas!

       1. Or we simply redefine the normal and make being joyful while serious ill the normal because of the blessing to our being it in reality brings.

22. I love the phrase “whether it is cancer or a cold it’s all the same”. As to me this is the antidote to comparison in making one disease more severe than the others. They are both signals of the body that there is an aspect in our lives that needs attention, and not only in taking the measures to support the body to cure, but more so to consider life up to the point that made us stop what underlying quality of life has brought us there was.

23. This is just gorgeous a recipe for life, to see each ‘challenge’ as an invitation to be more of who we are, and this question is so pertinent ‘… the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?’

24. Even though you are long gone as the person known as Fiona and have perhaps even reincarnated once again in a new body with a new name and with very different lessons to learn this time around, you live on through these words of wisdom. Thank you for expressing all you have as the joy you write with and about is infectious and puts a whole new slant on terminal illness.

25. Illness and disease, or any hiccups in life, can be experienced so differently. It is our reaction and judgment against ourselves that makes it impossible for us to appreciate what the moment is offering to us and see beyond the physical reality.

    1. Yes Fumiyo, it are the images of how we should be and how life should be that do stop us from accepting life in full, whatever may come to us.

26. Amazing to consider that it is possible to be considered very ill by society’s standards in terms of what is happening in the body physically and yet the genuine quality of the words and the obvious sparkle which shines through in this blog shows me that even in the face of being very sick you can still feel very well.

27. It’s interesting – we can use healing as a means to recover and then stay the same or healing as a catapult forwards. It’s a great example of how our approach to life is completely everything.

28. Understanding that illness is not a curse or a stroke of really bad luck, but something we have created through how we’ve been living..only when we understand this and embody it will things start to change in how we live, work, relate to ourselves and others.

29. ‘Yes it would have been lovely to have learnt all that I have learnt without the cancer, but those beliefs and ideals were so entrenched I feel I had to be made to completely stop in order to begin to feel what I had been doing to myself.’ A beautiful acceptance of how our choices affect us, and how sometimes we have to be brought to a complete stop in order to start again very differently.

30. “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.” Looking at serious illness this way takes away all blame and self-judgement. We just need to make different choices.

31. Baffle away, because it shares with us that there is another way – even to be sick! I always thought being sick was a failing of my body to keep up with me – ouch and also that it was a judgement and punishment. I rarely took responsibility or changed the rhythm of my life for longer than it took for me to get better. Your blog and others have inspired me to build a more self-loving rhythm which means I have committed to take notice of even the smallest dis-harmony in the body. You know – it is very communicative when we listen!!!

32. Joy and illness are not at all incompatible and I have seen many instances.

33. This is a beautiful sharing Fiona, and I agree that we need to view illness and disease not as a failure but an opportunity for the body to clear and discard what is no longer us, making space for greater love and connection.

34. I love this message Fiona, what I am learning is that there is no such thing as a bad or negative experience, so no matter what happens, whether it be cancer, or an accident or an eye infection everything is designed for us to learn and discard what we no longer need, it’s only our perception that makes it bad, I love your approach to life – thank you so much.

35. What an amazing reflection this is – to be able to embrace illnesses and diseases as a healing opportunity, to look at our ill patterns, to understand the true purpose of life. We really are equipped to deal with whatever comes our way.

36. ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body.’ Great words here by Fiona, an illness is not a failure it is a loving opportunity for us to look at how we have been living, and what we have accumulated in our body, that through illness it begins to clear itself of those ill choices we have made, and at the same time we are offered a new start.

    1. Illness is often a clearing – it is our choice whether we call that a failure or an opportunity and the latter can be very powerful and supportive.

37. This is just beautiful, a surrender to what life offers and a deepening and building of a relationship with yourself no matter what is going on. Deeply, deeply inspiring. And reading today I am inspired to consider how I move and if I move in a way that deeply appreciates all I have been presented with and all that I am; and how joyful my life now is and how simple that can be, there is so much to appreciate and understand and step by step we can be with this in the joy of who we are.

    1. This step by step is important isn’t it monicag2? If we think we are going to turn around a momentum of not paying attention for years in a day, or a week, then we may give up before we have felt the deliciousness of the seeds we are sowing. Always give time for the seeds to germinate and grow so you can reap the quality of movement you are sowing.

38. I just love your approach to life, you’ve totally nailed it in every sense, if you approach illness as a way to clear a lighter way ahead and a way to know yourself in a much deeper way – what is not to love and be joyful about every single day?

39. The body needs to cleanse just like the earth needs to cleanse. Illness is simply the body’s way of cleansing out the toxins that we have put in. It’s an absolute blessing. If we have this understanding how can we not be joyful?

40. A beautiful blog to read and enjoy times over. Today, this beautiful reminder has brought a pause to my day to re-imprint being in my rhythm in full and not be pulled out by potentially very stressful external circumstances.
    “It may be a cold or a spot which makes you stop and look at the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?”

41. “Underneath I was a mess.”
    How many of us can relate to putting on a happy face, yet be literally dying inside?
    I, for one can. There is no greater joy than discovering our presence holds a steadiness that simply brings what we feel within out to our world. No more hiding how we feel, instead honestly sharing our selves. The tough stuff and the joy.

42. I would prefer to see it {cancer} as you say “A way back to divineness, a beautiful cycle of evolution”? Thank you Fiona.

43. What a beautiful blog which reminds me to pay attention to every little message my body is giving me in my day and to celebrate its sensitivity and responsiveness and ability to heal.

44. What a beautiful perspective of seeing illness as a loving stop for us to correct our ill rhythms and choices.

45. This a beautiful blog of what it is to surrender. Surrender to the healing on offer and realise that joy and love is what we are which is always waiting to be expressed.

46. That illness = misery is such a fallacy for illness always offers us an opportunity to heal and to see life and how we have been living in another light.

47. What a different light you shed on illness and disease. We are so used to seeing illness and disease in a certain way that we do not see that there could be more to them than we allow ourselves to be aware of.

48. Beautiful to feel the genuine joy and reunion of knowing and accepting the truth of life’s cycles and how illness and disease can be part of this re-union. “Maybe healing isn’t always a cure, living to a ripe old age, getting rid of symptoms, managing an illness or disease, but a way back to our divineness? a beautiful cycle of evolution?”

49. I come back to read this blog often … it’s pure gold. When I consider what is offered here, that looking good, ticking the boxes, being healthy is often a false wellness in fact when I read how Fiona lived waking each day feeling love in her body and joy at another day, I can feel how many of us so called healthy ones do not have this. Could it be that our illnesses are less obvious, that in fact because we are ‘at the mercy’ or live in a way that allows the outside world to dictate how we are, we in fact are ill, and yet we often think we’re fine … reading today I consider Fiona’s question about how I live and if I’m living in a way that supports me to live me in the world or instead simply allows me to survive and exist?

50. You are doing everything that needs to be done on a practical level, with the Doctors in hospital but as the man in the red robe pointed out, you are doing much more than that too. Stunning and clear, you are a sparkling inspiration on a new way of viewing illness and disease, small or big, it’s a message, it is communicating something, the question is, are we willing to listen?

    1. Yes, inspirational indeed, and showing it is very possible to live with love and joy even with illness when this understanding is connected to and known.

51. I wonder how many of us live with the shadow of shame, needing a perfect picture to show the world, only to be completely devastated when, in whatever way, our ideals are smashed and we are left exposed and raw. How do we come back from such an experience? The last sentence below gives us a level of understanding that supports us to know our part in our illness, and offers us the responsibility to make the changes needed, this is how we return. “At first I was ashamed of the illness. I wanted to deny it, keep it secret. I knew it would spoil everyone’s image of me as the healthy one, the one with the answers. I had allowed myself to be in an ill rhythm dictated and driven by others’ needs, ideals and beliefs.”

52. It is stunning and by far a rarity to read of someone with cancer waking feeling love in their body and joy at being able to embrace another day as the woman they have reconnected to. Illness is indeed an opportunity to stop and feel and by doing so let go of all the falsity that has driven you to reveal the truth and beauty of who you truly are.

53. To bring awareness and understanding to the true meaning of illness, changes the whole game plan of living in an irresponsible way, through reconnecting to our essence (Love, Harmony, Joy, Stillness) through our body. Fiona certainly emanated this quality in full.
    “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are”.

54. To awake feeling joy in our bodies at another day, that is the way to live, and it’s possible for us all. Those stops we get allow us to feel and see what does and doesn’t support us, and often illness does this. We have an ideal that to live a successful life we should live to a ripe old age but in fact this is not true, and often a real healing is in embracing that illness and where-ever it takes us, and knowing that is supporting us to be more of who we are. We really have been seeing illness in a false light.

55. Illness can strip us back – to our vulnerability. It seems that often we can do so much to stay away from our vulnerability but if we go there, there is such joy and surrender. We don’t need illness to get us to this point, but sometimes it gives us a helping hand.

56. ‘Maybe healing isn’t always a cure, living to a ripe old age, getting rid of symptoms, managing an illness or disease, but a way back to our divineness? a beautiful cycle of evolution?’ Wise words and one day we will all understand what healing truly means and we will return to God.

57. There is an image of how it has to be when we are very ill. Some people do not live by it.

    1. This is absolutely true Eduardo… our held images can make us blind to the truth of life in many areas.

58. Cancer is a great stop for us to reflect on how we have been living and the choices we have been making, we either pick ourselves up and start making more loving choices as we are able to see far clearer the impact our previous choices have had, or we drop further into the misery of the life we have created.

59. We allow ideals and beliefs to have such a hold on us that it comes a time that the only way to let them go is an offering where illness and disease arises in the body yet the arrogance running through the body does not want to hear the truth; that we knowingly created the illness and disease in the first place. It is a bitter pill to swallow but it does not make any sense to me that we are given illness and disease that either comes from our genes or plucked from thin air. In life there are consequences for every ill choice we make and the body lovingly teaches us through illness and disease that we cannot carry on living in the way we were living before the onset of a major illness such as cancer or before the onset of a cold – there is simply no difference as the choices in both situations were abusive to the body. I can do no other but to appreciate my body every time it communicates with me something I have been ignoring to bring more love and understanding to the way in which I live my every day.

60. I too had associated myself with an image that I was a happy and cheerful person and it was my job to make everyone happy, but these created expectations are too much to maintain for very long. With this way of thinking we think it’s not okay to have something go wrong with us. The amazing way you have presented of dealing with an illness is the future, to feel the blessing that we have been given to re-assess how it is to live in every way.

61. This is a new light shed on cancer.. A new form of being with it: seeing beyond the illness or disease itself,’whilst not letting the reality of the situation lose out of our sight..hence by this blog we learn to observe our ways and experiment that we indeed have a relationship with everything in one way or the other and that so when we have an illness or disease we should look honestly at where we are at: what choices we made (either lifting us up or taking ourselves down).

62. I’m sure a refreshing way to look at cancer and illness and disease for many. Even within an article that is leading us to looking a different way of illness and disease lies a judgement that it is somehow not part of how things should be, “Yes it would have been lovely to have learnt all that I have learnt without the cancer, but those beliefs and ideals were so entrenched I feel I had to be made to completely stop in order to begin to feel what I had been doing to myself.” There is so much evidence pointing and alerting us to the fact that we are more than simply human. Throughout history is this message as well, we have one mode of thinking or actions only to find years later we were on the wrong track and a lot of the time things seem back to front. It would appear when we lock down, even in a small way, to only seeing part of something, the other part which is always felt lies still somewhere in our body or thoughts and is not activated. I guess if we were looking at a whole apple you only eat part of it and leave the rest. You can try and cover it, preserve it but in the end this unused or not activated piece of energy starts to break down or go rotten. Illness and disease is not really a mystery when it comes to energy, it just makes sense. Our attachment and at times ignorance to energy becomes our blind spot that allows a home for this all to take place.

63. This whole blog is amazing – so much wisdom, joy and humbleness in what is being shared. This line made me stop and read it twice “Everything I longed for is reconnected to and there is now the beauty of discovering more.” for it encapsulates for me the magnificence that we are which most of us have very little if no awareness of because we are running around trying to find ourselves, when we are right here all along.

64. Can illness and disease be a way to hide even further from the beauty of our essence? It is like we are given a licence to become a victim and blame the world at large for our predicament. Yet here in this article we have a woman sharing her joy as she takes responsibility for where she finds herself. On reading this, there is no victim in the stakes of cancer, instead an offering to let go of a life we have lived that did not support ourselves to be ourselves.

65. Absolutely gorgeous Fiona, and telling that we do see those who embrace an illness and its learning as rare or somewhat special, rather than something available to all of us. Fiona’s wisdom is offered to all to us, to know and understand that no matter our dilemma or crisis, we can see it as a way that is stopping an ill rhythm we live in and thus a needed stop for us to reflect, see and understand that how we are living is not supportive of us, in other words a gift. Our choice is to embrace it or not.

66. Fiona’s words ‘All I needed to do was see the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am.’ Beautifully claimed, and fully understanding the stop that is needed for us to return to who we truly are.

67. So beautiful Fiona, your lightness and joy are very palpable and yet your life is not one that from the outside anybody would imagine could have you feeling so joyful. It just goes to show how messed up and upside down we have this ‘life’ business… what you’ve shared is gold thank you.

68. We do see getting sick as being a failure and we also see that living to a ripe old age as a success, but whether we are sick or seen to be doing well, it is the quality with which we live each moment that matters.

69. It is important to always remember this, ‘llness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.’

70. When we are given the grace to stop and truly feel all that we are, we can never return to living anything less than this. We can try, but love always wins. This is indeed something to smile about. Gorgeous blog Fiona.

71. It’s very true that so many of us show the world an image of success, we have certain boxes ticked, yet underneath we are a mess because of the lack of self love, and the various ideals and beliefs we subscribe to that truly dismiss and punish the body and the being we are.

72. We often got stuck on images, how things look and it is so easy for us to look and see boxes ticked or to do this for ourselves, to show that we fit the correct picture, but what exactly is going on underneath? And as Fiona beautifully illustrates here, we can look the picture but how we live and treat ourselves can be lacking love and care and may even be abusive – so it’s not just that we need to change our outlook on illness and disease (we do), but we also need to change our outlook on what is a successful life. How successful is a life if it’s lived at the expense of our bodies and our relationships? And actually might a truly successful life be one which embraces any corrections be they illnesses like cancer or accidents etc.? And that’s the lesson Fiona offers us here, her cancer which she embraced as a gift allowed her to correct how she lived and brought her to a place of greater love and joy in her body and that is something to be celebrated.

73. The way cancer has changed your life is a beautiful example of the miracle that lies within true healing.

74. What strikes me as I return to this blog again is the true essence of responsibility Fiona shares with us here. There is no blame but an acceptance of what has happened, her part in why it has happened and the openness to be able to learn from it too. No wonder other people say she is far too happy to be ill. What a wonderful way to be in life.

75. An incredibly empowering look at being ill and being well. I certainly thought illness was something that just happened to me but I am seeing more and more as I choose to be honest, that actually, when I get sick, I am not surprised, not really deep down. I somehow know why, I just all too often am not quite ready to be honest with myself because it hurts to think of how much I have overridden to get to the stage that my body needs to be ill.

76. A tale of cancer that is quite the contrary to the average tale of cancer. “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.” That is indeed something to be celebrated.

77. “Could it be that if we have been looking at illness and disease in a false light, considering it to be due to bad luck, a virus, an accident, genetics, a punishment, an inconvenience etc instead of seeing it as the loving stop we needed to get back into a rhythm that supports us to be all that we are?” Yet so many of us – myself included – want to return to a ‘normal ‘ life after an illness, but without the unpleasant bits. To truly heal means to root out the deep cause of whatever symptoms may manifest. Treating superficially so that we can once again function doesn’t result in lasting cure.

78. We seek a cure so that we can return to our previous way of living. But to heal is completely different. There is no outcome or goal other than to arrest that which brought us to that point in the first place. So healing is about examining our previous way of living and bringing love to this, so that our current way of living changes completely. From here we can then ask “what is the purpose of disease”, for we see that there is a greater purpose that has nothing to do with being punished.

79. Fiona this is so inspirational to read of your story. You have not held back in sharing many wise things. Things that never get spoken about. The truth of who we truly are. The truth what illness and disease truly is. The truth of how to truly live/be….even in the shadows of “death”. The truth about our eternal soul and that there is no death. Thank you.

80. This blog Fiona, offers a whole new paradigm on illness and disease and healing, it asks us to consider what they truly are and mean, and how we’ve bought into a picture of both that is just not true. We are very locked into how we see life to be, and often it takes a serious stop, such as an illness (or an accident) to truly pull us up, for us to see that how we’ve been living is not working and is actually harming us, when we view illness in this light, we see it as a loving parent that says you are more, you are love and your ways are not loving and the most loving thing I can do for you right now is to offer you a stop, hence the illness. When we consider illness and indeed life in this light, it is completely different and it opens us up to the wider love around us, to the glory of life and of us and to knowing that we are so much more than we have been living – it says we are love first and that the only thing for us to ‘do’ is to be that love, to live that love. Thank you for your grace and beauty and for you infinite wisdom. It inspires me every time I read it.

81. Fiona, this is one stunning blog! Thank you for sharing the deep wisdom that has come with your re-connection to who you truly are. It is a beautiful reminder that we need not wait for an illness to be our stop, but if that is what is needed – we can embrace the healing that is offered.

82. ‘Maybe healing isn’t always a cure…but a way back to our Divineness?’ Such wisdom in this statement. Yes, we tend to want a fix when we seek healing – but maybe it is much more than a fix – such as a reconnection to a deeper awareness of who we truly are.

83. I love the ‘big picture’ this blog shares – that God, Love and Life are all ‘working’ to support us to return to that place of self-acceptance – even through cancer and other forms of illness. We could perceive this as merely a ‘positive attitude’, but for so many people the experience of having cancer is truly life-changing, not just attitude changing. To me, life takes on a whole new dimension when we work with it in this way rather than be in resistance to it – as Fiona has shared with us here.

84. Everything Fiona shared in here is real life and can be applied to any illness and disease. It is not the usual approach to a life threatening disease, but on reading it is inspiring to see what is possible when we are open to work with our bodies and not feel ashamed of what they are presenting. The beauty of all that is shared is we are given a moment to stop and reflect on life and see it in another way before we develop a serious illness – “For you it may not be cancer. It may be a cold or a spot which makes you stop and look at the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?”

85. What an awesome way to deal with illness and disease

86. Thank you Fiona, reading your blog, feels to me too, like receiving a healing session from your words, very beautiful and inspiring.

87. great to read your experience, all that an illness shows us is that we have been living in a way that doesn’t support us. When we see it as stop moment, and choose to heal not only the symptoms but what caused it in the first place, we can make a real change.

88. Heart warming, beautiful and game changing view of illness. Fiona’s perspective is wise, natural and supportive coming from the personal truth.

89. What an absolute joy to read and feel how we can handle anything when we approach with an openness and a willingness to see that it’s an opportunity to be more love – nothing is a burden, it’s just a way to show us how to be and live more the love we are. Fiona embodied this beautifully with her cancer, and as she says it could be anything for each of us, and reading this today reminds me to ask in each situation I face ‘where can I be more love here?’ It can be that simple.

90. How you approached any drop you encountered Fiona is truly inspiring ‘If I drop, it is for a moment … I smile and open myself to being more of me.’, with this I can feel the grace of what a drop can offer a further surrender and letting go of what is not us and the key is being open to being more of us as you so beautifully share. And to see healing as a return to being divine, that simple and it takes away any outcome based approach and brings it back to this simple thing, we are returning to being divine and anything we meet is part of that no matter the outcome. This is just so beautiful – thank you.

91. Thank you Fiona for the amazing light you are.

92. I love the tenderness, truth and wisdom that is shared in this blog. It feels like I have been sitting beside a blazing warm fire….and the magnificent light coming from this fire is paving the way for us all….

93. Every time I read this it touches me, and each time it’s another layer. Reading today I feel how important our rhythms are, how in life we’re stuck on the end results, good or bad, be it a great new job or an illness, but we do not take sufficient care about how we live, or as Fiona put it when we look at our rhythms the question to ask is ‘Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?’ We often don’t look back and see how we got there until life presents us with something which may force us to do so (like an illness, an accident, job loss etc.) This question is very much what I will now take into my day, to look at those rhythms I have and see what supports me to be all I am, and what does not, and to understand why I might hold ill rhythms and to allow and see that I don’t need to keep them, and most of all to be loving tender and patient with myself as I adjust and allow more of what truly supports me.

    1. I read your comment Monicag2 and was reminded of the question I asked myself the other day which was; how can I allow more support into my life? Is the same as how can I allow more love into my life? I can feel as I write, there is so much more I can allow and open up to but in fact there is nothing for me to ‘do’ to call /attract more support/love, as I am being asked to ‘surrender’ deeper to what is already there. Oh I love the simplicity…

       1. Thank you Jacqueline, it’s definitely about surrender and not doing, and I needed to hear and be reminded of this today. That life is simple, and love is there, we just have to surrender to allowing it, to accepting it and that’s it, no work to do.

94. How beautiful it is to read your story Fiona. There is a view that illness in misery and is to be dreaded but my experience has also been very joyful. There is such grace and love to be experienced and sometimes it takes a big event to clear the things holding us back.

95. I love what Fiona shares here that there is another way of looking at illness that it’s a loving stop, a way for us to stop ill ways and come back more to the truth of who we are, and this is what we are all offered by life, be it an illness, or an accident, it’s all a correction to bring us back to who we truly are – love.

96. Fiona this is such a revelatory way to look at our illness and disease and really brings it back to us connecting back to ourselves. I could feel your joy leaping off the page as I read and I could feel the true healing in what you shared for us all.

97. I can feel the magnitude of what you are sharing with us – so much love, joy and the willingness to live the truth. It makes myself very humble, when I read your revelations about yourself. For me you are a living example of when somebody looks through the drama and connects to the real precious inner being. Thank you for so much wisdom and love.

98. This is indeed a blog which turns everything else on its head- this is about evolution, seeing illness in the way Fiona has chosen to. I am deeply blessed by this blog,
    i agree illness doesnt need to be a negative thing, we can connect to the profound clearing and wisdom on offer here from Fiona, and makes sense that she is now giggly and light in her response to this illness.

99. This turns the disease model on its head and supports us to take responsibility over our well-being and lives – I love this blog it is revolutionary and offers us all great wisdom in understanding what evolution is..

100. Truly inspiring read Fiona and humbling. I can relate to all you share and also came to realise that Illness is certainly not a failure, but rather illness and disease are part of our evolution bringing us back to who we truly are…..if we are open to the learning, the clearing and healing which is on offer.

101. Dear Fiona,
     Thank you for your sharing here. Last week I found myself in the company of a woman who is dealing with cancer and I felt none of the joy, lightness, acceptance and responsibility that you have shared with us here. This has caused me to ponder deeply on exactly where we as humanity are really at when it comes to illness and disease, and at the moment you and those like you are the exception. For the majority of us are caught in thinking it is because of external influences that we find ourselves with illness. Which totally keeps us away from our own body and any understanding as to why we are in the place we are. Your words have much to offer the world.

     1. Leigh great comment and absolutely true. Fiona’s experience is the exception which is why having it here is so important, as the majority right now feel very different about illness and as a result can miss out on the opportunity it offers for evolution. It’s great to know there is another way and to have this blog and it’s wisdom accessible to all.

        1. Yes Monica,
           I do agree, for those who are ready to take responsibility Fiona’s words are a blessing like no other.

     2. I can feel the importance of bringing this back to responsibility Leigh Strack. We don’t like to think of life this way and want to blame illness and disease on so many external factors. But accepting responsibility is our point of power – where we can cease seeing ourselves as victims of life and stop saying ‘poor me’. Then our true learning begins!

        1. So true Richard, living in “poor me” leads us to believe that we are sick because of any factor, other than the fact of how we are living. If we choose to begin to look at how we are living from the bases of living lovingly with ourselves, it is very obvious all of a sudden how much we have harmed ourselves and our bodies and exactly what needs to be addressed to support ourselves through any illness.

102. An amazing sharing Fiona. Thank you so much.

103. Your sharing Fiona is just one healing session for me. I realize how many strange beliefs I still have and how liberating it is, when I drop the complexity. Your reflection is purely divine and thanks for reminding us, what life is really about – love.

104. A truly beautiful sharing Fiona, what an amazing reflection you are offering to us.

105. You have encapsulated what true health is Fiona. Thank you for shining the way to others with your beauty and reflection!

106. ‘I felt driven to achieve, to attend to everyone’s needs, to remove their pain, to make the world alright’. I read this sentence and realised this week, I have gone into an old pattern of wanting to help people to find a solution to their problems, but it just did not feel right when later I pondered on this, because I was coming from a ‘need’ a need for me to ‘fit in’, and so it is about me and not the other person at all…. well that has been turned around on its head. It is time for me to let go of this need, as it feels old and false and serves no-one, and embrace that it is not about fitting in or not, it is about the connection with myself that I wish to deepen, which will deepen the connection with all others without any ‘trying’ or ‘doing’ or ‘saving’.

107. Your blog is revealing the truth about illness and disease. It’s worth re-reading, because when I really let your words and experience in, there is no fear of illness and disease anymore. In fact there can’t be fear in my body anymore when I really understand from deep within what you share with us, Fiona.

     1. So true Felix, what is offered in this blog is deeply inspiring and healing for all to read. It exposes all the false ideals and beliefs around illness and disease that are capping us in many ways.

108. What a joyful re-count of what many would consider a tragedy Fiona, truly inspiring to feel the depth of your trust in the healing that was being presented to you. “All I needed to do was see the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am.” Being open to the Truth sure does set us free 🙂

     1. I too loved that sentence and life can be so simple if we choose to connect with our inner knowing and shine our light.

     2. See the false light is all we all need to do to commence our way back to who we truly are, divine and exquisite beings, all of us.

     3. Loved that line too, what a beautiful way to see what so many perceive as a time of misery and to embrace the true you from the inside out!

     4. I love the ease with which it is shared that God and our true self is just here with us all along. No struggle, no resistance – just surrender to the realisation that they are freely and abundantly available to be reconnected to, when we choose it.

109. I love that you have opened yourself to the healing and lessons offered by your illness. Through this you have made your journey with cancer one that is deeply beautiful and inspiring to all who read it and clearly all who meet you during this time. Your reflection that there is another way to be with illness and the loving healing cycle it offers when embraced, is just gorgeous and much needed in the world today.

110. And not only is this great medicine; to acknowledge all the niggling ailments, it is preventative medicine – as in some cases deeper illness and disease can be healed and addressed before it fully manifests…

111. Rather than fighting, reacting to, getting emotional, blaming or ignoring and hoping it’ll sort itself out or medicine can fix it for us, this blog offers the possibility that illness and disease could actually been seen as a good thing. I have read this blog before, but only now I feel it is starting to sink in. All the above ways illness and disease is treated with can make the situation feel very heavy, it makes a situation worse. But what Fiona shared was that it need not be this way and that the love that we are doesn’t see our ill health as a negative thing to be dwelled on, but an opportunity to stop and evaluate and possibly change.

     1. A great summation of Fiona’s realisations here – it can’t be said enough how self responsibility and listening to the body is such good medicine – and so therefore illness and disease itself is the most divine opportunity to listen to what is specific for you at any given moment.

        1. What I am finding as well is that the feelings of dis-ease, the smaller, niggling feelings, acknowledging that ‘something just isn’t right’ can bring great medicine into my life. The illness and diseases are great to bring home deeper things I have ignored but by honouring the surface tensions it brings a support to address these larger messages as and when they appear.

112. “Illness is not a failure” what a quite brilliant revelation that is, because my first thought on getting ill has always been, damn, I’m not as strong as I wish I was, when in fact it is not about not being strong but about taking the opportunity to look at how I am living and what might have caused me to become ill. Often when we get sick we may say that it was because I was around this person or that, or I was exposed to that situation, yet this stops us from feeling our role, this can be seen in any illness where we have the possibility to use it as a stop to see how we have been living our lives.

113. So often I have heard illness described as bad luck or bad genes and dying as losing the fight or succumbing to an illness and I don’t feel that these descriptions are helpful or true. If we see illness as the blessing it can be, to truly look into the energy we have been living, we have a unique opportunity for some real insight and real change in our lives, not just a hiccough and then to return to the old life. if we stop describing death as a failure but see it as the completion of a life lived to its close, we take the idea of failure and fight away and embrace celebration and joy.

114. Such wisdom shared in this beautiful blog Fiona. It offers great inspiration for others, thank you. Great questions you pose here that offer a deeper reflection and understanding as to the nature of illness and disease.
     “Are we looking at illness in a false light?”
     “Could it be that we are also looking at healing under a false light too?”
     Re-connecting to and living the love that we are, as you have so beautifully describe here Fiona is the beginning of our true healing, our coming home.

115. This is absolutely awesome. “All I needed to do was see the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am” – Your total commitment to taking advantage of cancer as a way of healing is just amazing. “Maybe healing isn’t always a cure, living to a ripe old age, getting rid of symptoms, managing an illness or disease, but a way back to our divineness? a beautiful cycle of evolution?” – Wow. This is GOLD.

116. I just love this blog. To see illness as a way back to our divinity and the love we are is just beautiful. Imagine if we didn’t have illness we would continue in ways which are not true to us and we’d miss that stop we need to show us, there is more love needed here – I feel so much of what Fiona has shared here shows the true love and power of illness, no failure then, just a loving stop, an opportunity to bring more love in. And this applies to any challenge or so called difficulty in life – I needed reminding of this today – lovely.

     1. Monicag2 I really love what you have written here, I can feel how important that loving stop is, how am I living, is it loving or is it unloving, not just for me but also in relation to others?

117. Fiona, your story has helped me to reflect further on how I see illness and disease. Coming back to simplicity is the key. Thank you.

118. The light we are within is deeply felt in your expression Fiona because this light is simply being, and for that, it ignites the light within us all.

119. We are innately still yet our outward expression most of the time does not confirm this truth; we then re-create an outward persona that looks held together but there is no honesty or harmony with what is frequently felt to be tension within us.

120. Wow, you’ve got me considering my rhythm and how I live – is it for others or do I honour what is needed for my own body? I love what you’ve shared here how illness is a loving stop showing us that we cannot continue in old ways, this is just beautiful.

121. This is really profound. In what light are we looking at illness? Fiona is teaching the world that we got it all wrong.

122. Thank you Fiona, so true and yet so simple. Maybe life has become too complex, the love of our soul always delivers what we need, always simple and joy-full!

123. It is wonderful to read of someone so emotionally unaffected by illness and able to look on the long term gain of living in joy.

     1. I agree Stephen, it is rare indeed for someone who is so emotionally unaffected by illness, and for that very reason, Fiona has been able to shed a new light or a new prespective on illness and disease; one that many may never have considered before.

124. Such a gorgeous blog to read again. As Fiona says ‘Maybe healing isn’t always a cure……….but a way back to our divineness?’ I know this is how it feels for me, as I have developed a deeper connection to my body. As I gain more of an understanding of the meaning of life and a relationship with myself and the impact that this has both on myself and others, it just all feels as though life makes sense when we consider, as Albert Einstein says ‘everything is energy’. If we hold this as our truth then each little action we take has an impact on others, as the impulse pulses out from our action and reaches another, and we can feel or sense these tiny movements as we pick up the waves of energy.

125. What a great way to look at illness and disease Fiona…that it is the start of the healing process and an opportunity for great learning and awareness. No wonder you were smiling…to truly evolve is a joy indeed.

126. Such a positive awareness you have of illness and disease Fiona

127. Such a joy to feel what is being reflected back to humanity in this blog. I adore the feeling of how supportive illness can actually be for us to clear the accumulations of ‘what is not us’. I loved that part about getting sick while I was young at school. I would always feel more deeply connected to myself and more settled in my body after the sickness had passed.

128. As I read this again I can feel at the core of my inner being the absolute truth in what Fiona has written. To recognise the “stops” in our lives as opportunities to reconnect to God and to ourselves at the deepest level is such a gift for us all but we often choose to not see this. Fiona has shared this with us with such openness and love.

129. Fiona this is such an empowering statement – ‘I remarked to a friend that I would rather have had the cancer than be how I was before the illness.’ Indeed what an opportunity to look at what has kept you away from living the divinity that you are. I agree that a ‘loving stop’ is an opportunity to evolve and to move out of a cycle of dis-ease or illness and into our natural cycle of well-being and joy. Thank you for reflecting that there is another way with your amazing and naturally brilliant light.

130. This beautiful blog by Fiona is so simply and clearly written which delivers the real meaning of ill ness and disease which is; ‘is the loving stop we needed to get back into a rhythm that supports us to be all that we are?”

131. I truly love what you share Fiona – the truth, so beautiful and all mighty in all its glory. Yes, we are most certainly deeply loved by cycles that are continually constellating us back to who we truly are. So freeing and humbling to live in the knowingness of this.

132. Beautiful blog Fiona, with such powerful awareness gained through your experience with cancer.
     I love what you say:- “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are”- and our divine nature.

133. A beautiful, tender and life giving sharing that I instantly felt held by. Your comment – ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are’,.is so powerful. The world often sees illness as a nuisance, a time waster, an interruption that can be done without or a get out of work free card. What it truly is, is ‘a way back to our divineness’. Your beauty and deep loving connection to you is felt, thank you Fiona.

134. “All I needed to do was see the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am”. This is such a beautiful statement, which I absolutely agree with. Living who I truly am without apology is worth more than anything in the whole world.

135. Fiona, you write so beautifully.

136. Wow! The profoundness of these words brought tears of knowing the truth of what this beautiful woman writes. Her words are glorious, exquisite. Society would be completely up ended by acknowledging the truth written here. “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.”

     1. Coleen you make a clear point here about society’s resistance to embracing the truth of an illness, and why a body reacts in this way to how we have been choosing to live. Illness, in all my experience, is a clearing. it is the end point of a sum of events, not the beginning of something tragic.

137. Absolutely gorgeous Fiona. I can relate to all that you have written. For me, my full stop moment too was breast cancer. Like you, everyone considered me the healthy one and was shocked when I was diagnosed, as was I. Like you, I am deeply grateful that I had the cancer as I was in deep illusion that my life was great. On the surface it appeared that way and this is what I presented to the world, but underneath there was much sadness, grief, resentment. I can honestly say I am deeply grateful for the full stop in my life that the cancer presented me with, to learn that there is another way of living. Our blessings sometimes come in ways we may never imagine.

     1. We are so similar Fiona and Donna, for I too was considered by everyone to be the healthy one, and I thought I was living a healthy life too, which was the illusion I was living in, but the fact was I had no relationship with myself or my body as I chose to check out, so as not to ‘feel’. Then the diagnosis of breast cancer knocked on my door, and boy, everything that I had suppressed and avoided feeling, erupted and was in my face which meant I no longer could avoid….my healing began when I started to ‘feel’ what I had created and my past choices that led to breast cancer, which supported me to change so much in my life; that today I am vital and healthy and feel so much more of the qualities of the beautiful tender, divine and precious woman I am, that all women are, which continues to deepen the more I accept and allow myself to express these qualities. Indeed Donna, ‘Our blessings sometimes come in ways we may never imagine’.

        1. Jacqmcfadden04 you mention something very interesting here – that the diagnosis for you brought up all that you had avoided and suppressed feeling. I get the sense to avoid feeling the ‘what is not’ we also get in the way of feeling the ‘what is’, so by choosing not to feel and deal with the pain and hurt that is not us we also disconnect and don’t feel the wonder that is us. The hurts get perceived as mountains and we deny we have the power within to both be and move the mountain. Here’s to opening to feeling all there is to feel – as here we may find healing.

     2. Such beautiful sharings here ladies…an abrupt stop to bring you back to love…a confirmation that we are all being held and loved no matter what!

138. It is surely crucial to our wellbeing that we begin to challenge the accepted wisdom around disease and healing and see within ill health the opportunity to clear and heal what is not harmonious in our body. What Fiona describes is a state of being that seems far preferable to taking on a miserable state in not being well. I know which I prefer and what have we really got to lose, the illness keeps coming so time for a new approach.

139. Your own joy at being given an opportunity through illness to change your life shines through. This is about how we respond to illness and the choices open to us: do we embrace and learn from it or resist and be fearful? I very much related to this: ‘For you it may not be cancer. It may be a cold or a spot which makes you stop and look at the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside? This is about all of us not just those with cancer.

140. ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.’ This statement brought me to a stop, I know I have held the belief that illness is a failure, look how well I’m living and I still get sick sometimes but letting go of that belief and knowing the truth that illness is simply an opportunity to be more of the love I truly am allows me to honour the process of illness and truly care for me during it.

141. Wow, I certainly see illness, disease and healing in another light after reading this.

142. I felt to read what Fiona had written again today. I am getting over a cold and have not been truly accepting this as a “stop” for me but rather have felt myself “pushing” along with it. What Fiona has presented here is gold and to be able to feel the clearing of illness and disease as a way to accelerate our return to God is magic and something worth pondering.

143. This is such an inspirational article; one that I know that I will re-visit many times as a reminder of the truth of illness and disease. It breaks down the long held belief that illness starts out there, somewhere not related to us, and that we can only ever be the victim. Fiona has shown us, with so much grace, that this can be a time of joy and inner growth, and that we do have a choice in how we respond to what we are experiencing; and that smiling and laughing are a most important part of the healing prescription!

     1. It is very true that many feel like the victim of their illness or disease and miss the opportunity to reflect on their lives, why they have been brought to a ‘loving stop’ and how they can start again with a different way of being in life. The appreciation that Fiona had for her illness felt like a real gift to her and everyone around her.

     2. Very true Ingrid, I know this article is one I will come back to a lot also and a beautiful reflection and the love and joy that illness can truly bring.

144. You are an inspiration for me Fiona McGovern, how to live a life dedicated to the love and joy that lives within me. It is a great relief when we appreciate the fact that God is with us all the time as you so beautifully expressed: “My searching for God is over because he was with me all along, holding me, waiting for me to return”. I also love, the although simple but yet that powerful way you reflect on the state of our wellbeing, ‘does my life confirms and supports me to be all of me or is my life dictated by the outside?’ I will take this with me as a guide to reflect on myself on a daily basis.

145. A refreshingly beautiful look at what illness means. It’s a very rare event (at the moment) for someone to see disease in the light the you do Fiona (“a loving stop”) and no doubt many people from family, friends, health professionals to other patients have been inspired by what they saw in you and how they saw you experience something that most see as traumatic. A true blessing and a true role model.

146. Dearest Fiona, thank you for your beautiful expression and being committed to bringing humanity the truth of illness and disease. Through my observations as a registered nurse I have seen a lot of people withdraw and give up on life and people when they are ill, you have embraced the all and remained committed to life….this is so very inspiring! Yes, I can see why you smile and laugh and I absolutely love the Joy that your presence brought to all.

147. Your blog puts a much needed healing angle to illness. It is a true opportunity to stop and feel our choices and rhythm. Smiling through this journey will have inspired so many people around you. A wonderful reflection in the world.

148. A wonderful blog and lovely to have this available for the world to read. You raise some interesting questions about how we look at illness and healing in society. Your personal growth and appreciation for life shines out.

149. Fiona, I can feel the truth in what you are saying in my body as I read it. “Healing is a way back to our divineness”. Thank you for this revelation.

150. Thank you, Fiona, for your lighthearted article on the “heavy” subject. The way you feel and speak about your illness is very refreshing and moving, full of deep understanding of life and choices made. It is revolutionary to ask: “Could it be that if we have been looking at illness and disease in a false light, considering it to be due to bad luck, a virus, an accident, genetics, a punishment, an inconvenience etc instead of seeing it as the loving stop we needed to get back into a rhythm that supports us to be all that we are?” as well as :”Maybe healing isn’t always a cure, living to a ripe old age, getting rid of symptoms, managing an illness or disease, but a way back to our divineness? a beautiful cycle of evolution?” for everyone to ponder.

151. I could quote every line in this blog Fiona, it is written straight from heaven. The line that really stood out is ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.’ One day, with the imprints of your amazing writing Fiona, humanity will know this at large.

     1. Katerina, you expressed exactly what I felt, that this is written straight from heaven. I feel very humbled after reading the wisdom and truths Fiona has presented here, which she has written for all of humanity.

152. I loved returning to this blog Fiona and reading about your giggles and lightness around your loving stop. An inspiring read for us all.

153. What a different way of viewing Illness and disease imagine if we all could treasure the gift our body is giving us the opportunity to connect back to “a way back to our divineness a beautiful cycle of evolution”

154. It is so lovely to hear your experience with cancer, and appreciation of all that it has brought and the changes it has made in your life. It is sadly unusual to hear that the stop from cancer wasn’t just temporary. Most of us only stop long enough for the doctors to fix us up – only so we can back to normal life, not recognising this is the life that made us ill in the first place. I love that you touched on how you didn’t want people to know you had cancer as you wanted to be seen as the ‘healthy one’, the one with it all together. I can feel this in myself and in many other women. We want to appear to have it all together and yet may be struggling inside. It feels like time we became more honest and allowed ourselves to be delicate and vulnerable.

     1. Yes Fiona Lotherington – that facade is an image that keeps us in the dark doesn’t it, rather than in the honesty of our fragility. I also appreciate what you say here about ‘recognising that this is the life that made us ill in the first place’ – truly wise.

155. Hello Fiona, I love the way you described illnesses as “loving stop” and it can be a spot or cold, etc. It is so true. Thank you for writing this beautiful article.

156. Currently our society champions a person if they ‘put up a fight’ against their assumed enemy ‘their illness’ and if a person can actually ‘beat it’ then we think of them as a real hero even though that illness might well be morphing into another form. What Fiona showed us through her lived example is that it’s possible to actually embrace illness, knowing that it brings with it the most amazing opportunity to deepen our relationship with life. Fiona’s experience was that illness is not an ‘away from life’ but a true ‘towards life’. In fact illness has the potential to actually add real life to our lives.

157. ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.’ This is such a huge revelation. Illness and disease are often seen as the enemy or a failure. I too used to think this way. Embracing the fact that it is an opportunity to stop and reconnect to the truth of who we are was life changing for me.

158. This blog really blew me away. I could feel the smile on your face as you wrote with the depth and truth of a woman who has truly come back to herself – and now understands the true cycle of life. I am deeply inspired and in awe of your wisdom, sense of fun and absolute joyful beauty.

159. Fiona, I hope others find your positive attitude refreshing and infectious.

160. Thank you Fiona for such an uplifting blog one I’m sure many of us will be returning to for inspiration when we are ill. At this moment I have a cold which I have had for a few days and although it is not severe it has had the ability to STOP me and I have spent some much needed time with myself resting and doing what I feel up to doing. You are right it doesn’t have to a big STOP, but anything that reminds us to self nurture and look at what we have needed to and change the things that need changing.

161. The depth of understanding and accepting illness and disease for what it truly is, expressed in this blog is profound. Such deep wisdom is shared with us here with utmost simplicity and humbleness. It is a gem somewhat hidden in the vast ocean of information in cyberspace, but accessible to those who seek it.

162. Fiona, each time there’s more. This statement jumped out ‘I would rather have had the cancer than be how I was before the illness.’ – it’s so powerful and such a declaration that everything before wasn’t it and is no longer needed. The absolute acceptance is tangible. And understanding that everything we look for, God, us, everything is actually in us, ready and waiting, how simple and almost ironic – we spend lives out there looking for that thing that was under our noses all along

163. I love how you share your experience with cancer. I can feel how you have fully accepted and appreciate the healing you get. It is very beautiful, and so simple.

164. Fiona, the ability to see your illness as a blessing and the wisdom it brings is inspirational. Thank you for sharing.

165. Wow, simply beautiful..I deeply appreciate that Fiona took the time to express her experience. The joy, love and acceptance you chose throughout your illness Fiona is palpable and very inspiring. This one line stood out for me today “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.”

166. Such a beautiful blog – at several points I had to just stop and feel the amazingness of how Fiona expressed with such clarity and all encompassing love. One of many sentences – today it was “this clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are”. This certainly gives inspiration to us all. Thank you.

167. A great blog challenging us to look deeper and at illness and disease in a different way , what a great reflection you provide us with in comparison to how it could otherwise be handled . It’s amazing the depth that this journey has taken you to in relation to self, care, love and understanding .

168. Beautiful blog Fiona, very inspiring and powerful. I can feel your love and warmth in every word. Your beauty and light touches us all. Thank you.

169. It is so true what you write Fiona; about the feeling that illness and disease is a failure, we as a society see it as a failure because we are so caught up in the superficial image we create and you describe so well in your blog. Illness and disease is an opportunity to stop, reflect, feel and make changes that will help you to heal the past choices that have lead to this “stop moment”.

170. Thank you Fiona, what an amazingly powerful and moving blog.
     “See the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am” – that is an inspiration very worth to be pondered upon deeply.

171. Wow what a truly inspirational blog, I have to agree with Alex, reading this made me feel the same qualities in me and the potential to deepen my acceptance of me. Thank you Fiona for sharing so beautifully.

172. Thanks Fiona for such inspiration. You have tipped disease upside down, shaken it and re-imprinted what cancer offers, or better still, felt the love we are offered 24/7 in everything we do.

173. The positive way in which you deal with your illness is inspiring and admirable. It helps me put my bad days into prospective, they aren’t that bad after all just an opportunity to grow

174. This blog of Fiona’s hold the greatest truth and beauty in expression. That the search to find is no more, as we’re already arrived at the destination we look for. Accepting and embracing this brings the deepest joy so evidently felt within Fiona’s blessing through her words that emanate the magic of healing and divinity.

175. It is the depth of acceptance of the love, grace, joy… expressed by Fiona that makes me feel the same qualities in me and the potential to deepen my acceptance of being all of me. Truly a living inspiration.

176. To see illness and disease as the bodies way of saying ”you are so much more than how you are living” rather than a punishment or ‘bad luck’ or inconvenience is amazing. With it comes a sense of being more, understanding that the body is not to blame and ignore for how it feels and if I want to be willing to heal these issues then my body is my greatest ally in doing so.

177. This is an amazing blog. The whole thing is a gem, but this stood out for me today:
     “Yes it would have been lovely to have learnt all that I have learnt without the cancer, but those beliefs and ideals were so entrenched I feel I had to be made to completely stop in order to begin to feel what I had been doing to myself.”
     As someone who has also had cancer, I know this to be true. My body gave me many smaller signals along the way, which I ignored, and in the end I had to be brought to a complete stop, in order to start listening and honouring what my body had been telling me all along.
     What Fiona has shared with us here is an absolute grace.

178. I love what this blog offers, that there is a possibility to live lovingly and feel joy in our bodies while we are ill, even seriously so. To have someone steadfastly live that as Fiona did, to the bafflement of some is amazing; it just shows how much we truly are, when we stop, and illness is often that stop, a needed loving one.

179. ‘For you it may not be cancer. It may be a cold or a spot which makes you stop and look at the rhythm you are in day to day. Does it confirm and support you to be all of you or is it one dictated by the outside?’ This question on it own is asking us to be honest and have a look at how are we living our lives? For me reading this blog from Fiona full of her wisdom and absolute joy in life and having a slight headache gives me a lot to reflect on.

180. “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.” Since I have come to know and accept this through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I see it is as nothing short of a miracle that we are in fact offered the opportunity to stop and clear that which is not love in our bodies. I have a feeling that our medical system would be very different and under far less strain if we could see illness in this way.

181. I can truly feel in your words why you smile and giggle – the gift of you connected to the love and joy that you are from within.

182. There are some many amazing sentences that are extremely powerful in this blog but this one jumped out at me – ‘All I needed to do was see the false light I had allowed myself to be in and reconnect to the amazing light I naturally am.’ – So simple, the power is in our own hands and we don’t have to go looking for it… Just simply let go of what is not truly us. Beautiful and yes a gift when it is coming up and out to clear from the our natural harmonious body.

183. This is excellent Fiona and very refreshing to read. Truly and deeply Inspiring.
     I agree with you today that illness is not a failure but when I was diagnosed with a tumour and needed major surgery I could not get past the physical pain as I could not accept that me – mrs healthy who so many people relied on could get sick. I felt a lot of shame and played my illness down and really did hide it from many in fear of being judged. Today 6 years later and with the true support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine Practitioners, I am real and no longer living a superficial life.
     The tumour stopped me and it took over a year to really actually stop as I had such entrenched behaviour patterns to keep going, no matter what. I truly stopped when I burnt my left hand badly, injured my right arm and just had surgery.
     I recall surrendering and saying ‘OK I get it’.

184. Yes there is a huge belief that pervades much of society that to be rid of your ailments is the healing. I am coming to an understanding that the ailment is the healing of a way of living that is not congruent with the way that we are designed to be – joyful, stupendous and open hearted. It is our true divinity and the grace of nature working with our disharmonious choices, bringing us back to love, should we only stop to consider it as possible.

     1. So true Jinya, really our illness is the needed stop for us to look and see how we are, and yes it’s often that we just want rid of it so we can get back to our old ways and carry on, so as you beautifully put it, the ailment is the correction, the calling back to the truth of who we are, the divinity we are. Isn’t that such an awesome way to see, and what Fiona has written here is a testimony to living with ailments or illness in this way.

185. Each time I read this, I get something more. Fiona what you’ve written is gorgeous. I love how you say ‘I awake feeling love in my body and joy at another day.’ and I’m seeing that living this way is a choice and can be chosen no matter what. I can feel that love any time. Illness can be there and so can joy, and yet as others have said we often give ourselves a hard time being ill rather than just taking care and see it’s beautiful stop.

186. Such a beautiful account, Fiona. I especially love this line: “Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.” So often I come across people who are giving themselves such a hard time because they are sick with a cold, or are forcing their body back to work when they should be at home resting and allowing their tired body to recuperate. All without realising the gift they are being given and the opportunity being presented to stop, and reconnect to the love they are.

187. Is cancer really the evil thing it is portrayed to be when it can bring one to these realisations: “My searching for God is over because he was with me all along, holding me, waiting for me to return. My quest to find me is over because I have discovered I was with me all along and my longing to feel like a true woman is over because yes I was born a woman, so being a woman was with me as well.” There are so many great things in this blog which turns illness and disease on its head and sees it in a completely new way, a new way that offers us a change in consciousness regarding the meaning of illness and disease and their role in healing.

188. “Are we looking at illness in a false light?”
     This is a great question. Illness was something I grew understanding was to be avoided as much as possible and seen to be something wrong. I am learning that illness can be a great blessing in that by seeing it for what it truly is, it has helped me see behaviours and beliefs which I have held that do not support a truly loving way of living.

189. As winter approaches I know the adverts for various cough and cold medicines will increase, so many of them supporting the idea of illness as an inconvenience and how we can mask the symptoms and carry on regardless instead of a stop moment, as Fiona encourages us to consider.

     I wonder if we did take coughs and colds as stop moments and looked after ourselves what the difference would be…less germs spread to others for a start!

190. What a wonderful blog. The way Universal Medicine approaches and works with illness and disease is truly inspiring. A true joy reading about a real life example of how that way of living and honouring our body and our individual process of evolution is truly empowering and also inspires others. I was moved by reading this article.

     1. Yes, I agree Golnaz, how Universal Medicine approaches and works with illness and disease is like nothing I have ever come across before. Fiona has truly brought a different perspective with her beautiful blog.

191. This blog is awesome and very inspiring in the most beautiful, gentle and play-full way and truly reflects the lovely woman who wrote it. It is just gorgeous and I will keep coming back to it to read again and again! Thank you Fiona.

192. I especially love this ‘My searching for God is over because he was with me all along, holding me, waiting for me to return. My quest to find me is over because I have discovered I was with me all along and my longing to feel like a true woman is over because yes I was born a woman, so being a woman was with me as well’. This sums up the simplicity we can all achieve through self love. Thank you so much Fiona your writings will live on forever.

193. This is such a beautiful and inspiring sharing of your experience. It reveals the possibility of all the ideals and beliefs we have created around illness and disease, which doesn’t support us in healing at all. Your story should be reading material in doctors surgeries and hospital waiting rooms : )

194. This is such a beautiful and thought provoking blog written it feels for the whole world. To view illness as a healing and a blessing is transformative. It takes true courage to look at cancer in that light and not treat it as a battle, which is how we are taught to take it on. No illness, big or small is a battle, but a tremendous opportunity to let go of unloving ways of living. Making room for better choices that support us more fully.

195. Thank you for sharing this Fiona. I was at the hospital yesterday visiting my dad who had a fall. I was feeling great and open and the people around me responded with smiles and were open back. Thank you for reminding me that the illness is the healing and no need for misery.

196. Such a fantastic blog Fiona. I feel your absolute acceptance of having cancer and the gift of it, and how it’s an opportunity to let go and just be your true self. And no anger at God, just a willingness to see the gift in the stop that cancer brought – how you’ve approached your illness is truly ground breaking for us all. We have really looked at illness in a false light and missed it’s gift, and you’ve shown us that that gift is there if we choose to see it and with it comes a joy, an acceptance and a return to the truth of who we are and what life is. Thank you so much, this really touched me.

     1. Gorgeous comment Monica, you have captured the essence of Fiona’s approach to her illness and I agree with all that you express. There is a huge lesson for us all here about how to be with an illness and how to grow from it.

197. Far-out what a blog. Far-out how we have been in denial and not wanting to take full responsibility for what we choose. Far-out in how we seek solutions and cures than wanting to look at why it has occurred. Far-out this is seriously ground breaking and absolutely everyone should read this blog, it should be in school educations systems. How Far-out have we really gone when all we really need to do is be as near to us as possible because it is all within us.

198. What a deeply inspiring article Fiona. I love how you take the fear out of cancer and illness. That illness and diseases as you say is what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body and the clearing is part of our returning to love. Thank you.

     1. I agree Ruth, it is extremely inspiring how Fiona has taken ‘the fear out of cancer and illness’. So too often I hear of people with cancer who then go about trying every possible diet, treatment regime, etc.. all to cure their body and rid it of the disease yet there are few who actually stop and look at why they got the disease in the 1st place and by doing so take responsibility. Thank you for sharing and showing us there is another way to deal with illness and disease.

199. Great blog Fiona. Your positive attitude to your illness is very inspiring. I love your line ‘illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body’. By looking at it this way you are saying I take full responsibility for my actions. That’s Awesome!!

200. This is the most beautiful blog. I love reading it. It inspires me, warms me, and moves me close to tears. Fiona’s word are a loving gift to all, for always.

201. This is a beauty! I would love to say I could handle an illness such as cancer the way you did Fiona but I just don’t know. I find your courage and joy ground breaking in a way that is inspiring to all. You laid down a lived way of understanding and coping with an illness where most people would be in despair . We can all learn from you that illness is a blessing if it rids us of what is stopping us of being us. Thank you so much for this.

202. The acceptance of illness and disease as a message and an opportunity to truly heal our bodies from how we have lived is an inspiration in this article.
     It shows another way to be and removes the fight against oneself and others and brings one to see and feel our own power and responsibility.
     A beautiful sharing from Fiona on her journey, lovingly with no fear and a joy and inspiration to read.

     1. The way Fiona shows us that, rather than fighting a disease, we can work with it to bring us back to our own divinity, is inspirational

203. What comes across so strongly is the acceptance of and willingness to work with what your body is showing you. By being open to the understanding that illness develops from the culmination of our choices, you have been able to work with the medical team and bring focus (for them and everyone) to the love you know yourself to be. Truly eye opening.

204. This is remarkable and extraordinary but yet so natural and exquisite in its simplicity of how to be with those things that we traditionally deem to be ‘bad luck’ or ‘at the mercy of the gods’ responsibility for how we have been living up until that moment, that stop and return to being the love you were born as. Simple. Your writing is so groundbreaking and inspiring I wish all the world to read it.

     1. I agree Vanessa, Fiona’s writing is truly groundbreaking, by taking full responsibility for ourselves and our choices it is inspiring to see how we can change and embrace life more fully.

205. It is amazing to read your relationship with cancer and your body. As you have said, it takes a lot of commitment and responsibility to work on ourselves, and you be open to seeing what our bodies might be communicating. But, as beautifully expressed in the article, it is so worth it, for the freedom and joy it brings.

206. Beautiful Fiona you are inspirational and have left a gift for everyone. Looking after ourselves honouring and caring and loving ourselves is love and we then are the love we are naturally and offer this wherever we are .Thank you

207. I loved reading this blog again, this time, what captured my attention most is the wisdom Fiona shares when she write that illness is not a failure, it is a clearing of what we have allowed in, that is toxic to the body. A very clear message on the importance of treating our body with respect.

208. .. what an amazing gift you have left behind for us all to learn and grow, Fiona. I will enjoy reading more.

209. Fiona.- A wonderful blog. An inspiring lady in every sense of the word.

210. Dear Fiona, this is certainly a revelation and the sentence which hit me was ‘I feel whether it is cancer or a cold it’s all the same, just a different intensity. It’s an opportunity to stop and feel.’ The words ‘stop and feel’ express just that. Thank you

211. Dear Fiona, thank you so much for sharing your amazing story it is so inspiring. There is so much to be learned from illness and diseases, about life in general.
     As Serge Benhayon says “Life is a Medicine”!

212. This blog is so full of joy, thank you Fiona for making it clear that even the tiniest spot or ordinary cold are also the body’s way of asking us to stop and feel how we are living. It doesn’t have to be cancer that brings us to that realisation, the opportunities are there all the time, shown to us by our amazing bodies.

213. Hi Fiona, the JOY you speak of sparkles through with EVERY word written. You really are an inspiration on how we can live now and enjoy life, by being ourselves, even before illness and disease comes knocking on the door.

214. Hi Fiona, this is a gorgeous piece of writing. The energy of the JOY you speak of sparkles through every single word. You are a very deep inspiration of what we can live now and not have to wait for illness or disease to wake us up.

215. Fiona has shown us that the healing is ‘what we learn in opening up to the message of the illness’ and not necessarily the disappearance of the disease. Fiona graced us all by doing her healing even in death and she knew it. She felt how loving it is! That’s why she was laughing. She could feel her own joy at seeing how it is and she’s sharing it with us all. Cool. Great work Fiona.

     1. Thank you Jo I agree with you and have had 2 friends with cancer both who died but one who fought it all the way with anger and blame as to why she had it and it was all the doctors fault at the end. And another who embraced the cancer and chose to see it as a healing and she was at deep peace with herself.
        The love and joy of Fiona and her amazing journey with it, sharing it for us all as her choice goes way beyond anything I had ever felt before and is truly inspirational.

     2. Your words are graceful and light, Jo. It is true, “Fiona has shown us that the healing is ‘what we learn in opening up to the message of the illness’ and not necessarily the disappearance of the disease.”

216. Dear Fiona, what a beautiful blog and I have only just come across it. I know that in physical form you are no longer with us, but your words and lived experience are with us all to be forever inspired by. The joy and emanation that you carry/carried through your illness was amazing. What a blessing on cancer you have left behind for everyone.

217. It’s great to come back to this blog and re-read it. Today I feel so much of the simplicity you offer here, Fiona. How we can live life superficially and driven by what looks good or connect to us and feel what our innate and true rhythm is. I was stopped by what you say about living in a way and a rhythm to allow and express who I am – my question today asks me where I need to refine to be more loving and supportive of me and how that might look and I feel inspired by what you write to look at that from accepting me and that feels so freeing.

218. Such an inspiration – these words are a true gift.

219. This blog is filled with wisdom and joy. It’s amazing to have cancer presented as a wonderful healing opportunity rather than as a fight against dis-ease in the body.

220. How beautiful Fiona. Yes I find time and time again that illness/disease is often needed to stop us.

221. How inspirational. Fiona, your blog should be displayed in every cancer treatment waiting room on the planet. I know people who have cancer who are afraid of their bodies and describe their treatment as fighting the cancer. How wonderful it is that you have embraced it in such a loving way

222. Wow, this is a very powerful blog. I loved reading it and it inspired me to look at any signs in my body from a different perspective.

223. Thank you, Fiona. What you have written lets the veils of mis-belief fall away to reveal the always there love and joy that lives in us all.

224. Fiona you reveal an amazing journey with cancer – which for many is indeed a life changing experience. But you have grasped the opportunity with both hands and come to a much deeper understanding of yourself and the cancer in the process. Your joy is palpable and you are an inspiration for anyone facing this disease.

     1. I totally agree Eunice, what Fiona has written is so very inspiring.

225. This is so great -it breaks so many of the fears and ideas I and many have around illness and cancer in particular. That somehow to be ill is something to fix or something we’ve failed in. It’s a stop time to review and I love how you’ve described it about dropping the complexity and making it all about being simple – so of course you laugh and giggle – lovely

226. A truly beautiful article very inspiring allowing us to feel the real purpose of illness disease and life .To reconnect to the real you love and joy inside and being who we are innately is the biggest contentment and amazingness there is and forever growing and no wonder it makes you giggle and smile and shows this for others to see with or with out cancer . Thank you Fiona for a very special sharing .

227. Your blog is a beautiful reflection of how to see cancer. Your words should be embraced and endorsed by every cancer institution. I can feel why you smile and giggle and it comes through in the beauty of your words, “I wake feeling love in my body and the joy at another day.” Thank you Fiona for your amazing inspiration.

     1. I agree Alison, the benefit to others would be huge if cancer institutions were to embrace and endorse Fiona’s words. Life changing for everyone who has cancer to see it in this light, as a healing not a punishment.

228. What your saying is an amazing learning. So many people see things that pull us up as “bad” – uncomfortable, but what your presenting is that it is amazing to be shown the area of our lives that aren’t working, because until we are shown, how can we change? thank you.

229. It is inspiring to hear you say ‘I would rather have had the cancer than be how I was before the illness’. To actually take stock and appreciate the stop the cancer brought to you, rather than go into the panic and fear, is a great testament to your ability and commitment to heal. Far too often, in my experience, people just want to get rid of the cancer and go back to how they were living without wanting to see that how they were living actually caused the cancer in the 1st place and that they had a role to play.

230. This blog by Fiona McGovern is a gift that brings great clarity about the true healing and blessing of illness and disease. It should be read by anyone who is going through a ‘stop’ in their life, so that they can appreciate the grace of the opportunity being granted to them.

231. Fiona,what you have written is truly amazing.
     Breaking how we have thought about cancer.
     The fear surrounding it.
     We can choose to stop
     ……….for a moment !!!!
     Or
     We can truly STOP.

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233. I love the clarity your words bring, Fiona, that ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body. This clearing is part of the process that endeavours to return us to the love we are.’ What an awesome insight to have as we continue to live our lives. Having a true understanding of why illnesses occur empowers us all and shows how important every choice we make in the way we live life really is.

234. Thank you Fiona, please put me on the list for your book(the illustrated version) before the man in the red dressing gown.

235. Hi Fiona – so so lovely reading your words and it de-constructs so much of how we look at our body. That the body is our vehicle to use in expressing the light we are which makes it something to worship and honour and not just take for granted. But we have to also honour the being living inside the body which you are refreshingly reminding us of and which makes so much more sense to the Whole Picture

236. Just Beautiful Fiona thank you, this is such a gift for us all. I have worked as a health professional for nearly 30 years and almost always people with injuries and illness look at it as a “bad” thing they have to fix. The way the medical world is wired reinforces that belief too. What a relief it would be and a loving way to live in our bodies if we understood as you do now that ‘Illness is not a failure; it is a clearing of what we have allowed in that is toxic to the body.’
     How empowering to realise that the way we live in our bodies from day to day can lead to illness or vitality. Illness is not some random event outside of our control, it is up to us – what a relief!!!

237. Dear Fiona,
     You know how people always ask that question “If you could spend an evening with – have dinner with – anyone, living or dead, who would it be? Well, I know my answer now. It is Fiona McGovern.

238. Dear Fiona,

     Thankyou for sharing this, you are an inspiration.

239. Hi Fiona, what you say about all of us learning to see illness and disease in a new light makes so much sense. Thanks for your awesome inspiration and keep on giggling and enjoying the simplicity – as I know you will.

     1. I most certainly will.

240. Thanks for this inspiring blog. Every day of my life I have lived with a fear of getting ill. I am not ill, not that I know of at the moment. But I´ve had this shadow walking with me all my life. Reading your blogs is beautiful and liberating. Illness is not the end of it all as we wrongly assume, there is no end for our beingness. I know that now. I will re-read your writing again and will keep it present in my heart.

     1. thank you Luz Helena. I know I lived in fear of cancer before it arrived to stop me. It has helped me to live from my inner heart and not from the fears in my head. As you say there is no end to our beingness and there is always more to enjoy.

241. Dear Fiona,

     What an inspiration you are and will be for many. I have finished cancer treatment within the last year and it has certainly been the most loving and revelatory experience of my life. I concur with all that you so delightfully express about disease and healing and the general misconceptions about their true function in our lives.

242. Dear Fiona, you have ‘nailed it’ for all of us in this sharing. We have been soooo fooled by the illusion that our daily life events, phases, illness, death are the way it is. Your exposure of that illusion is no less than any others, however with the the big C, people take notice because it is what most ‘fear’ and count as the ‘worst’. You are truly a light to the world, a leading one when when it comes to breaking the illusion around cancer and illness in general. I feel a healing through your expression Fiona. Thank you!!

243. I had the pleasure to briefly meet you and share a table with you in May, and I was totally inspired by the love you emanated and the light in your eyes, a beauty-full inspiration to me and many. Thank you Fiona I feel your blog should be read in waiting rooms everywhere!

     1. Fiona’s blogs as a book – what a lovely gift to offer to people as they sit in cancer clinics, both patients and their relations and friends. Cancer marked the start of my relationship with Universal Medicine and a whole new way to look at illness, dis-ease and in fact my whole life

244. Fiona I really love reading your articles, I imagine there is a book waiting to be published too!!! The world certainly needs to hear how you are living with harmony and joy and not the ‘battle’ most commonly described almost everywhere in relation to having cancer. Very inspirational !

245. Fiona, you already know what a huge inspiration you are to me personally and what you are doing here is offering that inspiration as a gift to anyone who is open to receiving it. In time, many many will.

246. p.s. Just for the record, everyone, I lost all that weight before the cancer appeared!

247. Beautiful Fiona, I can feel the lightness and love pouring out of your post, so light and playful. It is so true, as I have come to appreciate the gift of illness too, as a moment to stop and consider how I have been treating myself (and others). Consequently I too have been embracing illness instead of bemoaning it, as it has enabled me to make big changes to how I live each day. One only has to look into your eyes to see and feel the joy in you and know that having cancer is not necessarily the end of our lives, but the beginning of a whole new journey. Thank you for sharing so openly your new and personal journey.

248. Fiona, this blog is absolutely amazing, as you are. You are an inspiration. I too have cancer and people find this confusing and confronting, in the face of my obvious wellness, lightness of being and vitality. It has been a grace for me too, a FULL STOP and an opportunity to truly feel the way I have been living and to make choices that are truly loving and supportive for me.

249. Wow, beautiful Simmi, thanks for sending. It’s all so simple when we can see illness in this way.

     Sent from my iPad

250. Thank you for your inspiring article Fiona – your healing is contagious.

     I particularly enjoyed the wonderful lesson in your words: “Can you feel why I smile and giggle? Life this way is simple. I have dropped the complexity which once governed me.”

251. Fiona

     I deeply appreciate all you live and share in your experience with cancer.
     I am currently supporting my sister through her own cancer and feel inspired by you to be all of you no matter what presents. You are a beacon of truth in an area that can greatly benefit from it.

252. Fiona, what you write is awesome, I too have had a similar experience of people wondering how I can look and feel so healthy yet be going through some pretty heavy body stuff. I have to second your idea that illness and disease is a much needed loving stop, and is an opportunity to start walking with love and fullness. We look at illness and disease as a punishment and inconvenience when really it is an offering to bring ourselves back to ourselves.

253. Wow, Fiona… That was beautiful to read .. Cancer is such a freak out subject and so much depression around it. Really lovely to have some one else’s story of how joyful and it can be, not feeling ashamed or condemned and how this can be a beautiful cycle of evolution ..

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