Did You Know the American Diabetes Association Tried to Shut This Down?

Did you know you can reverse your Type 2 diabetes?  I did it!  Hooray!!   I came off Metformin more than a year ago, and I am still off it. 

DeWayne McCulley, author of Death to Diabetes, was volunteering his services, teaching people how to reverse their diabetes and come off the meds, when someone from the American Diabetes Association came in to tell him his services were no longer required. 

African Americans have some of the highest rates of diabetes in the U.S.  Check out these statistics from the American Diabetes Association. 

Diabetes in the U.S. Breakdown by Race 

Go here for more about Death to Diabetes. 

Go here for more ways to reverse Type 2 Diabetes and many other serious health issues. 

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Here's to your health!  

Where You Live May Determine Whether You Get Diabetes

As I am sure you are aware, Black people are statistically more likely to contract Type 2 diabetes.  

Did you know you can reverse your Type 2 diabetes?  I did it!  Hooray!!  

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.  

Check out this book:  Death to Diabetes.  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.   

Type 2 diabetes is a disease of cellular damage.  Heal and reverse the damage and you can reverse the disease.  

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.  Click here to read more.  

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 Why We Need to Heal.  

Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology

As you may know, the speculum was developed via experiments performed on enslaved Black women.

Dr. Marion Sims, who conducted many of these experiments, has been called the “father of modern gynecology” and is credited with inventing the speculum. 

Meanwhile, 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”. 

Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey were three such women whose names we should, we must, recall.

Just part of the history of how Black women's bodies have been treated in the name of “healthcare".   

Click here for an excellent NPR show, Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology.

See also: Black Women Sue Johnson & Johnson over Ovarian Cancer.

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Cancer Journal 10: Gratitude, Our Healing

Listen below to hear how gratitude is transforming my life.  This is attitudinal healing.  Gratitude is an amazingly strong emotion. 

I am an angry Black woman, and I believe there is a link between anger and cancer.  Listen below for more.  

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Click here for more about the link between anger and cancer.  

Click here for more Cancer Jouirnals.  

Click here to order Success Strategies for Black People.  

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Cancer Journal 3: Shopping for Green Candles

Green is the colour of life and health.

Continuing this blog series, “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's classic The Cancer Journals.  

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I've been shopping like crazy.  I recently received a substantial refund on payment protection insurance (PPI).  (Swings and roundabouts.)  So I am spending it.

A spiritual friend whom I trust implicitly suggested that I chant the White Tara mantra.  I am very drawn to Green Tara, who is extremely beautiful - she is the essence of Compassion.  But I have never been particularly interested in White Tara.  I can't get my head around the thought of a Buddha or Boddhisattva being white.  It just makes no sense to me.

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.

I have completely changed my shrine now.  It has been largely pink for several years.  Pink represents unconditional love, and particularly self-love and self-care.

Now, I have changed it to green and white.  Green is the colour of the heart, the colour of unconditional love and compassion.  It also represents growth, health, prosperity and abundance.

 

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.  But that was more than six weeks ago now – come on, man.

So I ended up buying some online.  Big green candles, small green candles, long green candles, short green candles. 

 

Yeah, lots of shopping.  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.

Still, I need to face the fact that I may not be here next year to enjoy this stuff – or even next month.

Cancer Journal 2: My Diagnosis

Continuing this blog series, “Cancer Journals”, named after Audre Lorde's classic The Cancer Journals.

Below is a letter I sent to my sister, who is a doctor, yesterday.  It is a bit technical, as it gives a few of the details of my diagnosis.

I saw the doctor at the hospital yesterday. I shall be having surgery on ----- and be in hospital for 4-5 days afterwards. The surgeon will be Mr. M----, who was the consultant I was referred to.

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.  They 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.

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.

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.

Many African Americans Still Can't Access Healthcare

African American Cultural Center

Despite the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, one group is particularly likely to be without affordable healthcare.  

According to this article, Many African-Americans Fall Into a Health 'Coverage Gap'.  

One more reason Why We Need to Heal. 

The health 'coverage gap' is partly caused by the fact that 55% of African Americans live in states that have not adopted affordable healthcare via Medicaid.  Added to this, many earn over the Medicaid threshold but do not earn enough to qualify for subsidized health insurance.  

As expanding the eligibility for Medicaid is now optional, many states have chosen not to adopt it, and these states are often those with large African American populations.  More of a quarter of those who are covered are Black.  Some Latinos also miss out, but not in the same proportions.  

So race is still playing a key role in access - or lack of access - to healthcare. 

Click here to read more.  

Click here for a video on the Affordable Care Act. 

 

Finding Solutions through Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT)

Imagine you could clear away all blocks and obstacles to getting what you want – all pain, anger and fear from the past, all physical and emotional blocks that are holding you back. Doorways and opportunities open up for your physical health, and your emotional and financial wealth.

Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT) is a therapy that helps you to do just that. Developed by Robert Detzler, SRT involves working with the Higher Self or High Self.  

SRT is a form of energy healing or energy medicine.  Many thousands of people have been cleared of serious illnesses, including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and dementia, through SRT. 

To read more about SRT, order your copy of Success Strategies for Black People today. 

I am offering free SRT consultations.  For more information, click here to contact me.  

Six Things in Your Home that Can Cause Cancer

This one is really scary.  

Consumer health groups have studied many household products and warned that they contain carcinogens, or ingredients known to cause cancer. 

Click here to read more.  

Plus, remember, Black women are more prone to particular types of cancers.  Click here to read about Black women and breast cancer.  

Be Real with Yourself

I've been watching this great video: Be Real with Yourself.

It's all about taking personal responsibility.

This sista is very brave in talking about the challenges she is dealing with. We all have problems and difficulties sometimes, and it's a question of learning from them.

When we look at what we can learn from a difficult situation, this empowers us. We can then make better choices.

Click here to watch it now.

Click here to read Why We Need to Heal, which is also about taking personal responsibility.

Here's to your success!

Workshop to Transform Your Life

If you want to transform your life, you need to attend my workshop in Relaxation/ Finding Creative Solutions in London next Saturday, 26th of March. This is the first of a series of these workshops.

Click here for details of my workshops in Relaxation/Finding Creative Solutions.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Click here for my CDs for Radiant Health and Healing, which you can use to tap along with EFT.

To read more about EFT, see Achieving Fabulous Success.

18 Months to the Altar

I really liked this article.

The thing that first attracted me to it was that it talks about using a vision board - in other words, using visualisation. To read it, see: 18 Months to the Altar.

To read more about visualisation, see: You are Magnificent.

For more about EFT, See: Attracting the Right Person with an Open Heart.

This Could Be Brilliant

If you haven't already signed up for the Tapping World Summit, click here to sign up now. It's free and it starts today! You will get free resources over the course of the next seven days, so go for it!

See also: Connecting with Success.

For more info, see: Black Success.

Here's to your success!

This Can Really Change Your Life

I have been a fan of EFT for years.

This can really change your life - and it's free!

EFT can help us to transform health issues, money and financial issues, jobs and employment, and every area of our lives.

If you want to learn more, you will sign up for this free online event.

Plus, I am holding some workshops in London. These are free of charge - see Relaxation Workshops for more info.

The Tapping World Summit has 20 free presentations with big names from the EFT/Tapping world

o You're going to learn EXACTLY how to do tapping in
this event. Remember, the pre-event video series was
just a warm up. The best part is still to come! :)

o This is an online event, so there is no need to
book hotels or wait in traffic

o The main event is 100% free to attend. You get
to listen to 2 presentations each day for 10 days
and you have a 24 hour period to listen to the calls.
(You don't have to be there at an exact time.)

o Everything is streamed through the web, so there's
no expensive phone bills!

o The way we're able to keep it free is we offer
an upgrade option for those that want to own the
audio to the presentations, the transcripts, the
workbook for the event, and the great bonuses (like
the full 10 videos in the Video Series) - all at a
very fair price.

Lastly, I want to cover one more topic because of a question
that people have asked numerous times: "What exactly
is EFT or tapping, and how do I start using it?"

So we have answers for this important question today for
people that are new to EFT (don't worry, we have a great
resource for the advanced people today as well).

For more about this, check out my articles:

Achieving Fabulous Success - download free EFT ebooks and audios here.
You Are Magnificent - more about how EFT can help you, and other ways you can manifest your dreams.

As you'll see throughout the event, we cover both basic
and advanced topics so there's great information for everybody
who attends.

If you're new to EFT and tapping, you can find out exactly
what it is and share with you the "Quick Start Guide" for the
event.

You can listen to it when you sign up.

Click here to register for the Tapping World Summit.

Here's some of what you'll learn in the call:

- Exactly how to do tapping (there is even a video
to show you the tapping points)

- What to expect with the Tapping World Summit

- An actual experience with tapping so you can see it work
(you'll tap along with Nick and Jessica on the call on a
couple of issues like physical pain and negative emotions)

- Why you will make drastic improvements in your life by
attending this free online event

On the page, you'll also be able to listen to the other
two pre-event audios with EFT expert Carol Look and the
more advanced audio with Dawson Church (which I highly
recommend).

So go ahead and listen to the "Quick Start Guide" and
again, just to clarify since so many people have asked
this question, this event is 100% free to attend
online during the 10 days of the event which starts
on February 21st at 8PM EST.

If you want to own the calls and MP3s or have the CDs
of the event, plus the transcripts and the workbook, you
can choose to upgrade to the gold or platinum package,
but it is completely optional.

Plus, it ia rare that any event or product allows you
to sample the entire product before deciding if you
want to own it.

I hope you attend. For now, enjoy the free audios. :)
Click here to register for the Tappng World Summit and get your free audios.

Here's to your success!
Zhana

Black Women and Breast Cancer

I recently attended an event about Black women and breast cancer. Here's what I learned:

Black women have a significantly lower risk of developing breast cancer than white women.

However, more Black women tend to die of breast cancer because they tend to develop a more aggressive form of the disease, which appears at an earlier age.

Click here to read about triple negative breast cancer.

This can lead to women’s concerns being dismissed by doctors who think they are “too young” to have to worry about breast cancer.

There is not enough information available about how this disease affects Black women. Doctors and healthcare professionals, including cancer charities, tend to be unaware of the issues Black women face.

Breast cancer can be caused by common household chemicals, including some Black hair care products, those which contain paraffin, parabens, mineral oil and N\pS./

Marina Raime of Betterdays Cancer Care

Maria Raime gave a very moving presentation based on her own personal experience.

When she first discovered a lump, Marina went to the GP twice and was turned away.

Young women often struggle to get a correct diagnosis.

When she was diagnosed, Marina needed information about breast-feeding and infertility.

She was treated at the Royal Marsden Hospital, which is classed as a Centre of Excellence in treating breast cancer. However, the second time she had the disease, she presented with a rash and was told it had been caused by laundry detergent, even though she was a cancer survivor.

After her double mastectomy, she was offered a white prosthesis.

She found that the literature on breast cancer was for older women and contained images of white women.

She did not receive any co-ordinated care as a pregnant woman with breast cancer.

The effects of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy she received have been long-term. No research has been done about the effects of these therapies on Black women.

After her charity, Better Days Cancer Care, set up their website, they received phonecalls from people asking “Why do you only have images of Black women on the site?” and “Why are there no images of white women?”.

The site was hacked by a hater, and all the research data was removed from the site.

Marina emphasised the importance of claiming ownership of the Black breast – our breasts are ours.

Betterdays are now working with Kings Healthcare Trust in a project led by Harold Freeman, an esteemed breast cancer expert from Harlem.

This event was held by London Black History Walks. They will repeat this event in July 2010.

On another note, many people have been cured of cancer and other serious diseases using Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT). For more info, see The Higher Self.

Books about Using Food to Prevent and Treat Cancer

Foods to Fight Cancer
The Cancer Survivor's Guide: Foods that Help You Fight Back
Nature’s Cancer-Fighting Foods

Cooking with Foods that Fight Cancer
What To Eat if You Have Cancer: Healing Foods that Boost Your Immune System

Foods that Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer through Diet

How to Overcome Victim Mentality

This is the final part in the series on Why We Need to Heal.

Click here for Why We Need to Heal Parts 1-3

With victim mentality, we become consumed with anger and the need to blame. This blocks our forward progress, i.e. we block ourselves.

Click here to learn about victim mentality and how to overcome it.

7 Reasons Why We Break Our New Year’s Resolutions

What stops us from achieving our goals? How do we undermine ourselves, and how can we change this?

Check out my article: 7 Reasons Why We Break Our New Year’s Resolutions

Get off to a great start in the new year - buy Success Strategies for Black People.

Here's to your success in 2010!

Why Don't I Have Good Hair?

Chris Rock's daughter asked him this question, "Daddy, why don't I have good hair?".

This film is his response. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68UVn0nMvo

A huge, multi-billion-dollar industry has been built, and thrives, on Black women's hatred of ourselves. See: Black Hair Care: From Korea to Your Neighbourhood

Sistas and brothas, when are we going to learn to love ourselves - all of ourselves, including our hair, skin, thighs, other "problem areas", etc.?

Check this out: The Key to Confidence

Relief for Diabetes Pain

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is based on acupuncture, but it uses no needles and no drugs. can be used successfully to relieve the pain of diabetes without drugs. It is very easy and quick to learn. Click here to download a free ebook on treating diabetes and the associated pain.

Click here to read lots more about EFT and download our free manual and free EFT videos.

The Black Barbershop Men's Health Project promotes health to African American men in the areas of hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes. To read an article about the project by Dr. Bill Releford, order the free ebook More Black Success Volume 5.

Click here to read a report on the challenges facing Black women, including high levels of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Black Women, Men and Self-Hatred

I’ve been reading an article in “Essence” on Black women and self-hatred. The article states that our negativity towards each other is due partly to our conditioning, i.e. Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome. I couldn’t agree more.

But this negativity does not just affect sistas. It damages brothas too. It damages our children. Its toxic effects seep into our families.

This affects people from Africa as well – witness the use of wigs and skin-bleaching creams.

What can we do about it? My work is all about practical solutions.

To read more, see Getting Past the Hate, to Have More Love.