tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195129092024-03-07T06:15:07.930-08:00Ancestral HealingThe Ancestral Healing Blog by Zhana focuses on health and wellness of people of African heritage - physical, mental and emotional health and healing. Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-70623374987583354752021-03-30T01:30:00.008-07:002021-03-30T01:30:35.690-07:00Black Maternity Deaths in the UK<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimtJqcb2fZN0gBpLw00C2SE9lYd2h7JPk7fTZeJP7zUiAbgyurbEMIcmjVdy2dULp2QIlAQNKOEqNRXyCOZKhGGwpAJBciTaGUmsSqjtIcZFkqI0SPuooVT9mwy2YLx6vsHA_/s880/Pregnant+Black+Woman+with+Family.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimtJqcb2fZN0gBpLw00C2SE9lYd2h7JPk7fTZeJP7zUiAbgyurbEMIcmjVdy2dULp2QIlAQNKOEqNRXyCOZKhGGwpAJBciTaGUmsSqjtIcZFkqI0SPuooVT9mwy2YLx6vsHA_/s320/Pregnant+Black+Woman+with+Family.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As
I stated in my recent blog post on <a href="https://ancestralenergies.blogspot.com/2021/03/stylists-black-british-womens-census.html" target="_blank">Stylist’s Black British Women’s Census</a>,<b> Black women are four times more likely to die in childbirth
as are white women in the UK</b>. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
watched the Dispatches report on Black maternity deaths last night. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
report on Black women, Racism and Human Rights produced by the House
of Commons and House of Lords Joint Committee last year (2020) showed
that Black women were five times more likely to die in childbirth, or
within six weeks after childbirth, than were white women. This
figure has now dropped to four times, but this drop is not considered
to be statistically significant. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The report concluded that <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/121927/human-rights-of-black-people-not-equally-protected-say-committee/">Black
people’s human rights are not equally protected</a>. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
report found that “over 60% of Black people in the UK do not
believe their health is as equally protected by the NHS compared to
white people”. </span></span></span>
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<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It also found that “85% of black
[sic] people are not confident that they would be treated the same as
a white person by the police”. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Asian
women are twice as likely to die in childbirth as are white women. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/3376/documents/32359/default/" target="_blank">You can read the report here</a> or
<a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/121927/human-rights-of-black-people-not-equally-protected-say-committee/" target="_blank">read the summary, conclusions and recommendations here</a>. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">According
to Dispatches, the system knows there is a problem but has no targets
to end this. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Maternal
deaths are not the only issue here. A “near miss” is defined as
a </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">life-threatening
complication or morbidity during or within six weeks after childbirth. </span></span></span>
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<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">African
women (from Africa) are 83% more likely to experience a “near miss”
than white women. African Caribbean women are 80% more likely to
experience a “near miss” than white women. </span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Several women described their experiences of maternity care, and mistakes that were made, and there is an ongoing issue about Black patients not being given sufficient pain relief. This happens on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the women interviewed was an NHS Consultant who had experienced poor quality treatment as a patient. </span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I
have personally had my own experience of having two different NHS
doctors at two different London hospitals try to pressure me into
having a hysterectomy I neither needed nor wanted. This was NOT
maternity related. It has echoes of <a href="https://ancestralhealing.blogspot.com/2016/08/civil-rights-fannie-lou-hamer-black.html" target="_blank">what Fanny Lou Hamer called the “Mississippi appendectomy”</a>. </span><br /></span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h5><h5 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.fivexmore.com/about" target="_blank">Five X More</a> is an organisation of Black women challenging the statistics
and offering mutual support to mothers. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Their
petition on addressing disparities in maternity care, which they
posted in March/April 2020, has obtained 183,000 signatures, which
means it will have to be discussed in Parliament. Five X More found
that many mothers were not aware of the statistics. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
reminds me of the Windrush Scandal, where people who were targeted
were unaware that many thousands of people were going through the
same ordeal. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Five
X More have stated that they want: </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1)
An explanation as to why there is this disparity of maternity care
for Black women and white women; and </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2)
Action to be taken to address this issue.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Their
target is for 85% of women to receive continuity of carers, i.e. the
same midwife and team, throughout pregnancy and childbirth. </span></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
we really believe that Black Lives Matter, we MUST address
disparities in healthcare for Black men and women. </span></span></span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-82538240183699465132021-01-16T04:35:00.000-08:002021-01-16T04:35:23.531-08:00Covid vaccine: 72% of Black People Unlikely to Have Jab, UK Survey Finds <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGyQSXpLZgjsA1xcZpIeTV4pHpsSec_EjPToqp0S7DnnGc2S_3NhkOf9siLcyGvtbNPlF39QPlcrp4LY-hKP2NO9asGT3gQUs2EAkbjil5CdYczR7WXq_ZC45yAAntQP_VEqd/s800/coronavirus-Covid-19-vaccine+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGyQSXpLZgjsA1xcZpIeTV4pHpsSec_EjPToqp0S7DnnGc2S_3NhkOf9siLcyGvtbNPlF39QPlcrp4LY-hKP2NO9asGT3gQUs2EAkbjil5CdYczR7WXq_ZC45yAAntQP_VEqd/s320/coronavirus-Covid-19-vaccine+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>According to a recent survey in The Guardian, 72% of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/16/covid-vaccine-black-people-unlikely-covid-jab-uk" target="_blank">Black People are Unlikely to Have the Jab</a> in the UK. <p>Apparently, we are too distrustful of the National Health Service and/or the health industry. We don't trust the vaccine. This despite (or because of?) the fact that we disproportionately tend to be employed within the NHS. </p><p>On a slightly different note, please can we stop with this "BAME" nonsense? "BAME" is NOT a word and I am NOT a "minority ethnic". </p><p>Want some natural, holistic healing? <a href="https://violet-flame-healing.com/" target="_blank">Go here for my Violet Flame Healing Meditation</a>. The Violet Flame Healing Meditation with Zhana is available from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, and more. </p><p>For resources to help us get through the covid-19 pandemic, including relaxation, music and more, <a href="https://violet-flame-healing.com/coronavirus-resources" target="_blank">go here for Coronavirus Resources</a>. These include information on how to grow and develop your financial wealth, abundance and success. <br /></p><p>Are you going to have the coronavirus vaccine? Or have you already had it? Please comment below and please share this with your networks. Thanks. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-58742988902457195142018-12-03T06:35:00.000-08:002018-12-03T06:35:25.666-08:00Violet Flame Healing Meditation <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Violet Flame Healing Meditation</td></tr>
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I learned about the Violet Flame when I first became a Reiki and Seichem Master several years ago.<br />
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The Violet Flame transmutes negative energy into positive energy. It is
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-22390250455107486622018-11-27T08:55:00.000-08:002018-11-27T08:55:22.093-08:00Why Are Black Women Less Likely To Stick With A Breast Cancer Follow-Up Treatment? <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Women and Breast Cancer</td></tr>
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Niasha Fray used to counsel women about sticking with their cancer treatment. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer and started to experience first-hand what her counselling clients went through. <br />
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Black women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but are 40% more likely to die from it. The disparity can be even higher for other cancers. <br />
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According to <a href="http://www.wlrn.org/post/why-are-black-women-less-likely-stick-breast-cancer-follow-treatment" target="_blank">this article</a>, part of the reason for this is that Black women are less likely to stick with follow-up treatment. <br />
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If African American women - and men - are less likely to attend follow-up appointments or stick with the treatment, there could be many reasons for this. They could be finding it harder to pay for the treatment. Finances are often a factor. They may find it difficult to have to take time off from work; transport may be a problem.<br />
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Black patients tend to do better with Black doctors. There may be other psychological, emotional or social factors involved. <a href="http://www.wlrn.org/post/why-are-black-women-less-likely-stick-breast-cancer-follow-treatment" target="_blank">Read this article to find out more about this topic</a>. <br />
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To find out about my cancer journey, <a href="http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.com/2015/07/cancer-journals-part-2.html" target="_blank">go here for my Cancer Journals</a>. <br />
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Please share your responses below and please share this with your networks. Thanks. <br />
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-11829486023873115682018-10-08T01:00:00.000-07:002018-10-08T01:00:07.577-07:00How Stress Contributes to Our Health Issues
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
are probably aware that people of African heritage are more prone to
particular health issues, notably diabetes, heart disease and some
cancers, as well as mental health issues. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
you know that chronic, long-term long-term, stress underlies a lot of
health problems? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Living in a racist society obviously contributes to our long-term stress. </span></span><div class="western" style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These
days, we are all experiencing a lot more stress. It can raise your
blood pressure, it can lower your immune system. It can do a lot of
damage. Stress causes physical health problems, as well as mental
and emotional problems. And it can make existing problems worse. </span></span>
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you with an individual, personal journey to help you to relax, and to
draw on your powers of physical, mental and emotional healing. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See
also: <a href="http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/black-success-how-to-get-results-you.html" target="_blank">How to Get the Results You Want</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's
to your success! </span></span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-19014658518203559312018-08-16T06:11:00.001-07:002018-08-16T06:32:42.700-07:00Did You Know the American Diabetes Association Tried to Shut This Down?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.com/2017/11/where-you-live-may-determine-whether.html" target="_blank">Go here for more about <i>Death to Diabetes</i></a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://ancestralhealing.blogspot.com/2012/12/finding-solutions-through-spiritual.html" target="_blank">Go here for more ways to reverse Type 2 Diabetes</a> and many other serious health issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am sharing with you today <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/child-marriage-bride-survivor-florida-law-sherry/" target="_blank">this post about Sherry Johnson</a>, a young Black girl in Florida who was forced to marry her rapist and bring up her six children from the age of ten onwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is to say, the mother, Sherry, was ten. And this happened, not somewhere in Africa or Asia where child marriage is often commonplace, but in Florida. The authorities did not protect this girl. The law did not protect her. Her family did not protect her. I am sure you are as shocked by this as I am. And I am sure that, like me, you applaud her courage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sherry is very eloquent on what she had to give up while she was still a child, in order to provide and care for her children. She is still fighting for the laws to be changed so that underage children cannot be forced into marriage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please share this with your networks, and please leave your comments below. We MUST stamp out child abuse and expectation. If you agree, post "Yes". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See also: <a href="http://transformyourlife-zhana21.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/child-sexual-abuse-protecting-our.html" target="_blank">Child Sex Abuse - Protecting Our Children</a>. </span><br />
<br />Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-26229206633340784562017-11-21T08:02:00.001-08:002017-11-21T08:02:58.802-08:00Where You Live May Determine Whether You Get Diabetes <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsjwDQ6xZzHf5z-04gjJs6RA5EvS6ziCqfZ-stdasqaUCYIWRhp119VGzLVjq3B9hxtnSKqQysaDkWjvLJWbLCDB64OXda4iHCdqBPDKjJ6UYvUi99I8b4vAvpOWSpwj8twas/s1600/Death+to+Diabetes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsjwDQ6xZzHf5z-04gjJs6RA5EvS6ziCqfZ-stdasqaUCYIWRhp119VGzLVjq3B9hxtnSKqQysaDkWjvLJWbLCDB64OXda4iHCdqBPDKjJ6UYvUi99I8b4vAvpOWSpwj8twas/s1600/Death+to+Diabetes.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I am sure you are aware, Black people are statistically more likely to contract Type 2 diabetes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know you can reverse your Type 2 diabetes? I did it! Hooray!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though a diabetes nurse told me recently that it's "not possible" to reverse your diabetes after the first couple of years. It is totally possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out this book: <a href="http://amzn.to/2jKy32A" target="_blank"><i>Death to Diabetes</i></a>. DeWayne McCulley woke up from a diabetic coma - and describes in detail how he reversed the disease. The hospital wanted to amputate his legs but, with the help and support of his mother and daughter, he resisted this and reversed his diabetes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Type 2 diabetes is a disease of cellular damage. Heal and reverse the damage and you can reverse the disease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, they are saying that where we live can determine whether or not we get diabetes. Environmental pollution may be to blame. This may particularly affect Black people and deprived communities. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/higher-rates-diabetes-linked-to-pollution-2017-11" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for more about health issues that specifically relate to Black people, and what we can do about them, click here to download my ebook <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/woz4h71uyv4zdyx/Why+We+Need+to+Heal.pdf" target="_blank"><i>Why We Need to Heal</i></a>. </span><br />
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found this by accident on Wikipedia while looking up something else.
Fannie Lou Hamer, who later became a reknowned Civil Rights leader,
was given a hysterectomy at the age of 32 in order to prevent her
from producing children. </span>
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you don't know what happened to Hamer during the voter registration
drives of the 1960s, what the police did to her, you really need to. So please google her name.
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had gone into hospital to have a tumour removed, and during that
surgery, the hysterectomy was performed without her consent. This is
just another way Black women's reproduction has been controlled by
the authorities for generations. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If
you have listened to my <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/cancer-journal-12-next-steps.html" target="_blank">Cancer Journals</a>, you know that I had a
hysterectomy last year as a result of my diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
Prior to that, when I was still of childbearing age, two different
doctors at two different London hospitals try to force me to have a
hysterectomy. </span>
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surgery was performed in 1961 and she later coined the phrase
“Mississippi appendectomy” because this practice was very
established as a way of removing and preventing Black women's
ability to reproduce. So this tactic, which was common in
Mississippi in the early 1960s, was still being employed in London in
the 1980s and '90s. I was never given any good reason or explanation
for why I should undergo this surgery until my cancer diagnosis last
year. </span>
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women formed the basis of gynecology. For more
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://ancestralenergies.blogspot.com/2016/10/black-history-blogs.html" target="_blank">Go here for more Black history blog posts</a>. </span>
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you may know, the speculum was developed via experiments performed
on enslaved Black women.</span></span></div>
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the enslaved Black women on whom he experimented have largely been
forgotten. They were experimented on without anaesthesia and without
dignity, and some of them died under his “care”. </span></span><br />
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also: <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/black-women-sue-johnson-johnson-over.html" target="_blank">Black Women Sue Johnson & Johnson over Ovarian Cancer</a>. </span></span>
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you may know, Black women in the United States have been suing
Johnson & Johnson over revelations that the company promoted its
baby powder heavily in the Black community. More than 1,000 women
are currently suing J & J. </span>
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Black women, my mother included, sprinkled baby powder or other
talcum-based powder in their panties every day for reasons of
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& Johnson have profited from targeting their baby powder at Black
women despite the fact that it has been known since the 1970s that there is a link between talcum powder, the main ingredient of Johnson & Johnson baby powder, and ovarian
cancer. I have known this for many years, as has J&J. For many
Black women, the repeated use of talcum powder has been a death sentence. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">One
woman, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baby-powder-cancer-lawsuits/" target="_blank">Jacqueline Fox, won $72 million in a lawsuit against Johnson &Johnson</a>, but unfortunately, she did not live to see the result. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">See
also: <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/05/05/johnson-johnson-reportedly-pushed-talcum-powder-on-black-women-after-white-women-cease-use-due-to-cancer-risk/" target="_blank">Johnson & Johnson Reportedly Pushed Talcum Powder on Black Women</a>. There are loads of stories like this online at the moment. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Add
to this the fact that Black men and women often present late with a
range of cancers. I explored this in my chapter on Cancer Black Care
in <a href="http://www.blacksuccess1.com/blacksuccessstories.htm" target="_blank"><i>Black Success Stories</i></a>. For more about this, see my <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/cancer-journal-12-next-steps.html" target="_blank">Cancer Journal 12</a>. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
a survivor of ovarian cancer (which was NOT related to use of talcum
powder), this is obviously affecting me deeply. I fought to get to
see the doctor I wanted and he eventually diagnosed the cancer,
before it even had any symptoms. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Early
diagnosis is crucial. Patients who are diagnosed early have a 90%
chance of survival, but this drops to just 20% with late diagnosis. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If
you have any concerns at all, please, please get yourself checked
out. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Plus
did you know that <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/black-women-with-fibroids-face-higher.html" target="_blank">Black women with fibroids have a higher risk of endometrial cancer</a>? </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I Can Do Cancer, I Can Do Anything - Surviving Cancer</td></tr>
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<b>Listen below to my Cancer Journal 12. </b> <br />
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I look back to when I was first diagnosed with cancer and I recall how terrified I was. And I look at the profound effect having cancer has had on my life and is still having on me. <br />
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Below is a link to a news story about the fact that Medicaid in
Connecticut has been cut. So some cancer patients can no longer access
radiotherapy. And this may particularly affect Black and Latina women
patients. This is what happens when there is no NHS. This is why the
junior doctors are on strike today.<br />
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Listen below. <u> </u><br />
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<br />Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-57718745701203753892016-04-04T01:00:00.000-07:002016-04-04T01:00:04.593-07:00Black Women With Fibroids Face Higher Risk Of Endometrial Cancer <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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We
have known for many years that Black women are more likely than other
women to have fibroids. Up till now, fibroids have been considered to
be benign tumours, although they can cause problems including heavy
periods, pain and infertility. They are commonly treated by surgery
and can lead to hysterectomy. They can also be treated using herbal medicine. <br />
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Now, a study from
Boston University has shown that Black women with a history of fibroids
have a 40% increased risk of developing cancer of the womb lining
(endometrium). <br />
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<a href="http://www.biospace.com/News/black-women-with-fibroids-face-elevated-risk-of/413758" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a>. Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-42084166506140931522015-11-17T03:05:00.003-08:002015-11-17T03:09:49.818-08:00Cancer Journal 11: Still Angry after All These Years<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen below to hear my latest reflections on how anger and my health
issues are connected. There is a direct connection between anger and
cancer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could have called this series "The Angry Black Woman's Cancer Journals". </span><br />
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<br />Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-73380118721137600172015-07-20T01:00:00.000-07:002015-07-21T11:54:05.282-07:00Cancer Journal 10: Gratitude, Our Healing <div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Listen below to hear how gratitude is transforming my life. This is attitudinal healing. Gratitude is an amazingly strong emotion. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cancer-journal-8-healing-process.html" target="_blank">I am an angry Black woman</a>, and I believe there is a link between anger and cancer. Listen below for more. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had a complete hysterectomy at the end of May. I just could not believe the amount of pain I was in afterwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen below for more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See also: <a data-cke-saved-href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cancer-journal-8-healing-process.html" href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cancer-journal-8-healing-process.html" target="_blank">Cancer Journal 8: A Healing Process</a>. </span><br />
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Is there a link between anger and cancer? Listen below. <br />
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You can always tell when a Black woman is angry. And we have plenty of reasons to be angry. Sometimes we have to <i>fight</i> to get the healthcare we want, need and deserve. <br />
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As I said <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journal-5-angry-life.html" target="_blank">here, I have experienced a lot of anger in my life</a>. <br />
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<span class="ng-binding"> </span>Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-30811624693308225222015-05-18T01:00:00.000-07:002015-07-17T03:21:03.395-07:00Cancer Journal 7: EFT for Releasing Fear <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">See below for relaxation audios with effective ways to release fear and anxiety. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In addition to <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journal-5-angry-life.html" target="_blank">anger</a>, I've been
experiencing a lot of fear. Enormous, overwhelming fear. I am sure
this is natural under the circumstances. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I've been doing loads of tapping, but
I am not sure how much this has worked. Then, last week, I did a
brilliant tapping session with my EFT practitioner. She is in South
Africa now, so we Skyped. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As I said, it was amazing. We went
back into my childhood to tap on some serious issues including the
part of myself that is still damaged from many years of abuse (mainly
verbal), and my feelings of unworthiness that stem from the
difficulties I experienced<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. </span>They still affect me now. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She also had me tap on the fear of
fear – maybe I'm scared of being scared. This really helped. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">During the tapping, I let go of a lot
of stuff. I felt so much calmer afterwards. <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Brilliant</span>. </span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-4413176473014360762015-05-14T01:00:00.000-07:002015-05-14T01:00:17.147-07:00Cancer Journal 6: What Are Angels?
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continuing
this blog series “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's
classic </span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cancer Journals</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
Please leave your comments below. Thanks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journals.html" target="_blank">Click he</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journals.html" target="_blank">re for more Cancer Journal</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ancestralenergies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journals.html" target="_blank">s blog posts</a>. </span></span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
don't know what angels are. That is to say, I don't know what they
represent in my belief system. Being a Buddhist, I do not believe
in, or worship, a god or a creator of any kind. For many years, even
when I was a Christian, I did not believe in the existence of angels,
But now, I know that they are real, and I believe they are a
beneficial influence. I have experienced profoundly, deeply peaceful
mental states when working with angels. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A
few months ago, I realised that by my bedside I had several decks of
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/kxndacx" target="_blank">angel cards</a>, two books about angels and an angel diary. I had to
concede that I really do believe in their existence. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
remember, many years ago, watching a film in which my teacher
Sangharakshita compared angels to Bodhisattvas. At the time, I
thought, “why is he talking about angels? Surely he must know they
don't exist!” Wow, how wrong can you be? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
angels have guided me (via the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kxndacx" target="_blank">cards</a>) to write and publish this blog
series. I don't particularly want to do so, but I am always willing
to try things and see where they may lead. This could be a healing
process for myself and for others. Hence, this series. </span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-23885930711899596702015-05-12T04:42:00.000-07:002015-05-12T04:42:02.636-07:00Cancer Journal 5: An Angry Life
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continuing
this blog series “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's
classic </span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cancer Journals</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
Please leave your comments below. Thanks. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anger has always been an issue for me.
And even as a young child, I always believed that anger is connected
with cancer – if we don't find ways to process our anger
effectively. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As
Black people, we cary a lot of anger due to the oppression we face,
and we have carried that anger for generations. When we carry
negative emotions, they block us from attracting the things we want
and deserve. For more about this, see </span></span></span><a href="http://www.e-junkie.com/Zhana21/product/57122.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Achieving Success</span></span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?woz4h71uyv4zdyx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why We Need to Heal</span></span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The negative emotions we carry affect
our families as well, and I believe they can not only make us prone
to disease, but also block our healing process. But I have long felt
the need to hang onto my anger. It's as if I think it protects me. I have thought of anger as a protection, a form of armour. But
really, the opposite is true. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is why I have decided to record a
healing meditation to help me let go of any negative emotions and
anything that could be blocking my healing process. It will not just
be for people who have cancer, it will be for anyone who needs
physical or emotional healing. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have carried a lot of intense anger
and fear in the past, which stems partly from the abuse I experienced
growing up. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'm a lot less angry than I used to
be, but I still experience the full range, from mild irritation to
annoyance, to anger, rage and fury. Even lingering resentment can be
destructive, as it alienates us from others, and eats away at us from
the inside. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I trust that my new healing meditation
will help me, and will be beneficial for you, too. I shall be
posting a link in the next few days. </span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-1801459790535938292015-05-11T08:04:00.000-07:002015-05-11T08:04:00.389-07:00Cancer Journal 4: Brain Freeze <div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continuing
this blog series “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's
classic </span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cancer Journals</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span>Please leave your comments below.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>Thanks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
saw the hospital psychologist on Friday. She reckons I am still in
shock, and I realise now that I am. I'm very vague a lot of the
time, and I'm having trouble making decisions. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Once
I was given the cancer diagnosis, I went into brain freeze. As my
flat fills up with packing materials, my head can hold very little
apart from clothes, <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journal-3-shopping-for-green.html" target="_blank">green candles</a> and similar. I am usually not that
into clothes, but I am turning into one of those women who take ages
to decide what to wear. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At
times like this, it's useful to have friends who tell me what to do,
like the one I talked about <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/cancer-journal-3-shopping-for-green.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-17630441161617595642015-05-08T01:30:00.000-07:002015-05-08T01:30:00.423-07:00Cancer Journal 3: Shopping for Green Candles <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Green is the colour of life and health. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continuing
this blog series, “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's
classic </span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cancer Journals</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please
leave your comments below. Thanks. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I've been shopping like crazy. I recently received a substantial refund on
payment protection insurance (PPI). (Swings and roundabouts.) So <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am </span>spending <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">it</span>. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A </span>spiritual friend<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>whom I
trust implicitly<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>suggested that I chant the White Tara mantra.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>I am
very drawn to Green Tara, who is extremely beautiful <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">- </span>she is
the essence of Compassion.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>But I have
never been particularly interested in White Tara.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>I can't get my
head around the thought of a Buddha or Boddhisattva being white.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>It
just makes no sense to me. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">However, on his suggestion, I have
started chanting the Green Tara mantra. He says it increases one's
life force energy. I have been doing the Tara puja (ritual) and I
chant both the Green Tara and White Tara mantras during it. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have completely changed my shrine
now. It has been largely pink for several years.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>Pink represents
unconditional love, and particularly self-love and self-care. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now, I have changed it to green and
white.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>Green is the colour of the heart, the colour of unconditional
love and compassion.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>It also represents growth, health, prosperity
and abundance. </span>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So I've been doing lots of
shopping for green candles. They are surprisingly hard to find. One
shop owner told me someone came in and bought up all the green
candles in his shop around St. Patrick's Day.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>But that was more than
six weeks ago now – come on, man. </span>
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<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So I ended up buying some online. Big
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/k5n9hoc" target="_blank">green candles</a>, small green candles, long green candles, short <a href="http://tinyurl.com/pcsdjzr" target="_blank">green candles</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yeah, lots of shopping.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>Maybe all
this shopping is my way of reaffirming life. I seriously updated my
wardrobe online the other day. Yesterday, my doorbell kept ringing.
A steady stream of goodies arrived at my door. Brilliant. Where to
put all this stuff? I'm enjoying it, though. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Still,
I need to face the fact that I may not be here next year to enjoy
this stuff – or even next month. </span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-38853340709202058642015-05-07T01:31:00.003-07:002015-05-07T03:37:14.664-07:00Cancer Journal 2: My Diagnosis <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Continuing
this blog series, “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's
classic </span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Cancer Journals</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
</span></span>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Below
is a letter I sent to my sister, who is a doctor, yesterday. It
is a bit <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">technic<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">al, as it </span></span>gives a few of the details of my diagnosis. </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
saw the doctor at the hospital yesterday. I shall be having surgery
on <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">----- </span>and be in hospital for 4-5 days afterwards. The surgeon
will be Mr. M<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">----</span>, who was the consultant I was referred to. </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There
are still a lot of unanswered questions. The cancer is inside a cyst
which is either on my right ovary or in the peritoneum next to my
uterus and ovary.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> T</span>hey are going to remove everything - my ovaries,
womb and cervix, as well as some fat cells and some lymph nodes in
the area. The cancer MAY have spread to the lymph nodes, but they
are not sure. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They
have not found a primary site for the cancer and are not sure whether
the cyst is the primary. They expect to know more once the
pathologist has examined the tissue. </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
think that is pretty much all I know now.... I do find that the more
information I get, the more upset I become, so I need to manage this.
</span>
</div>
Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-52035271173880760392015-05-06T03:54:00.003-07:002015-05-06T03:54:48.899-07:00Cancer Journals <div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cancer Journals</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
have named this blog series “Cancer Journals” after Audre Lorde's
classic <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k9n5uad" target="_blank"><i>The Cancer Journals</i></a>. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
been three weeks since I found out I had cancer. My consultant
gynaecologist had been trying to phone me and left messages on my
voice mail, but as I sometimes don't check it for a couple of days, I
didn't realise. I had emailed his secretary asking if I could have
the results of the tests I'd had done. Then I got the letter telling
me of an appointment to see a consultant at the MacMillan Cancer
Centre, so I knew. </span>
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<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
first two weeks, I was pretty much in shock. I met with the
consultant oncologist, who told me I would have to have a complete hysterectomy.
In between being in shock, I have been going through the first
stages of grief: denial and anger. I have been angry at pretty much
everybody – everybody who doesn't have cancer, everybody who has a
partner or children or family around them – so that's pretty much
everybody. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Trying
to get the support I need, well, that's an ongoing battle. Or series
of battles. Anyway. I'm strong. I'm tough, right? I am a warrior. I am also
vulnerable. And I certainly was not expecting this. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
don't know how long I can keep up this blog series, because I don't
know how I will feel physically or emotionally, <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">or </span>if I
will have the courage to say what's really going on for me. I'll do
my best to keep it real, for as long as I can. But some days, no doubt I will not feel <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">up to posting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">trust you wil<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">l find this series useful and helpful. Please leave your comments below. </span></span></span></span>
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Zhana21http://www.blogger.com/profile/01493863144605527837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512909.post-61459423362415637042015-02-03T06:23:00.000-08:002015-02-03T06:23:30.645-08:00Why Are So Many of Our People Dying? <div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We
cannot overstate the effect that centuries of slavery and oppression
have had, and still have, on our mental and physical health, our
emotional wellbeing, our relationships, and our economic status. </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
you know that <a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/african-americans-50-more-likely-to.html">African
Americans are 50% more likely than white people to have strokes</a>?
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">African
Americans are dying disproportionately from cancer and other </span></span>health
challenges including, among other things, cardiovascular problems,
stroke, diabetes, certain cancers, HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer's. For more about <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">these and other issues<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/woz4h71uyv4zdyx/Why+We+Need+to+Heal.pdf" target="_blank">click here to download <i>Why We Need to Heal</i></a>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why
are so many of our people dying? Why are our people dying at such higher rates
than the rest of the population? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is
this to do with poverty and discrimination? Is it to do with lack of
access to healthcare? Is it to do with racism within healthcare
provision? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is
it due to diet and lifestyle? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As
suggested by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVOL6bb0HIU">this
video from the African American Cultural Center</a>,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>is it a cultural thing – do we just accept
that we will be subject to certain health issues? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For
more about health issues and other challenges facing our communities
– and what we can do about them - <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/woz4h71uyv4zdyx/Why+We+Need+to+Heal.pdf" target="_blank">click here to download </a><i><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/woz4h71uyv4zdyx/Why+We+Need+to+Heal.pdf" target="_blank">Why We Need to Heal</a>.</i> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
would love to know your opinion. Please leave your comments below. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">See
als</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">o: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ancestralhealing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/many-african-americans-still-cant.html">Many
African Americans Still Can't Access Healthcare</a>. </span>
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