Healing Stories: Anne's Journey to Her Glow

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• Anne's powerful story of saying no “for now” to the standard of care and choosing her own path.

• How she navigated the jungle of self-research and found her glow by trusting her intuition.

• Her surgeon’s response to her most recent MRI results

Hey Crew!

I had to catch my breath a few times during my interview with our amazing new crew member, Anne Kelly. She is the mother of our dear friend Sophia Kelly Anne was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer.

She was telling me about the moment, not long after her diagnosis, when she was sitting in her car in the clinic parking lot. And she just felt cold.

And that's the part that I had to stop her on. Because it wasn't the diagnosis that made her feel cold. It was the loneliness.

She had just left an appointment where a "white coat," who never really looked her in the eye, had given her one path. A "plan" that was laid out with a lot of scary, technical words and even scarier statistics. Her only option was a mastectomy. 

When Anne started to ask questions, when her intuition was screaming at her that this didn't feel right, she was met with pressure. With fear. 

She told me:

That first, brave no wasn't easy. It wasn't a no that came with a backup plan. It was a leap. But luckily, she wasn't entirely alone. 

Anne told me, "Luckily, my daughter Sophia has known other people who've used alternative methods. And so, she convinced me to just try some other things."

And she didn't wait. The first thing she did was a total overhaul of her life. Anne went on a strict keto diet, cutting out all sugar, alcohol, dairy, and grains. 

In those first three months, Anne was running on this new path. She was guided by her own research, trying things like fasting, oregano oil, and essiac tea.

She described this feeling so perfectly. She said when she exited the "nice waiting room of standard of care, I went through a door, and when I shut it behind me, I looked around and I was in a jungle."

How many of us have felt that? The moment you choose to go off-script, you're suddenly in a jungle, all alone, with just your determination and intuition.

Anne didn't stay in that jungle for long. She got to work.

During our conversation she described this feeling as  "very empowering" to be "doing my own research." 

She was on a mission, spending her days researching, taking notes, going on YouTube, watching doctors speak, reading books, basically treating it like a full time job. 

But Anne’s healing journey wasn't just about the physical. It was a parallel emotional and spiritual journey. She started to confront the self-limiting beliefs that she had held her entire life. 

She realized that healing the body meant healing the mind, too. So for three months, she was all in. The strict diet. The tinctures. The deep spiritual work. All of it.

And then, the first test.

She went back for an MRI, and the results were the first real validation. The cancer hadn't grown. For anyone on a path that the world calls crazy, this was the proof. It was working.

However, the feeling of validation didn’t come from a scan. It was in how she felt.

"I started to glow," she said. "My skin looks better. I feel more energetic. I've lost my brain fog." She was healing her body from the inside out.

And that was just the beginning. After she found doctors who supported her alternative path, the results got even better. Following a scan three months into her new protocol, the doctor told her the tumor had reduced by a third.

Her most recent MRI was even more stunning. The surgeon who had originally pushed for a mastectomy walked in holding the report, looked at Anne, and said, "Have you looked at this? It's not just favorable. It's fantastic. Congratulations."

There is so much more to Anne's incredible story that we knew we had to do a follow-up. Her journey is just too powerful to fit into one email.

We'll be sharing part 2 in the coming months, so stay tuned. Be sure to check out the full interview below.

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Watch Anne’s Full Interview

With heart,
Carli
Founder of The Cancer Crew

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