May 10

Lay it Down….And Let’s Get Crazy!!

        Howdy Cancer Cowgirls and Cowboys,

How are all you cancer warriors doing today. It’s Thirsty Thursday! And time to plan a weekend cancer free. Is your hiney getting tired riding this cancer trail. Well today is almost the friday and plans can be made to take a cancer vacation. Feeling like life has been a little rough on the trail ride. It is almost  Friday and we are going to talk about hanging up our spurs and six shooter and having a cancer vacation. We spend most of our time mid- treatment seeing the doctor daily, having platelets checked and getting chemo and visit, not to mention just daily life on top of it all.

Here is what I am proposing. Let’s take this weekend a vacation from all things cancer. And here is the kicker let’s take a little of our summer stash of fast cash and do something fabulous. Rent a dream car for the day and take a drive to the beach. Alternative make a picnic and drive your own car to the beach or the most beautiful spot you know and spend the day their with your loved one. Not a peep, tweet, or cell phone in sight. It is in the glove box for emergencies only, but it  will move on without you for a day.  Now is the time to make the best of a day. We have a convergence of three rivers just behind our home. And it is gorgeous. I often take a cancer break and my Mom and I go and take photos of the birds and the bees and the fish. It is a real day, We pack a cooler. I should pack a Valium because my Mom tends to climb the gazebos to get just the right shot so it can be scary. But that is the idea- take time to do something we are not doing in our daily lives. Climb a tree, plant some flowers, do something to make today different. The whole weekend is deamed cancer free. So go for it.  I love to the water colors to the park and paint all day when I  lacking in funds. My dream cancer vacation right now would be to head out to Santa Fe see my crazy wonderful zany friend Shirley MacClaine and get into something fabulous and come home in a week. Duncan would have to come too, it would be no fun without him. So stretch yourself as much as possible. If you get out and begin to feel wormy and week in the knees come home. You did it you went and although we can chose not to talk about cancer for a little while it will still have a bit of a hold on you.l suggest you just enjoy the time. Keep the agreement to not speak of cancer unless you need you meds or a rest and then keep on gong. We all need a paradigmn shift. Easier an less expensivce is watching my husband get himself ready for a date don his suit and me my dress and get ready for a night at the Opera or Ballet. We love going and haven’t gone in a while.

Now if you are in Lower Alabama they will be interviewing me tomorrow to play on channel five next week. So please watch for details. And remember 19th of May in L.A. the 150 Most Fearless Woman in America will be hosted my Katie Couric and your’s truely was nominated. We won’t be able to attend this one but they have allowed me to make a commercial to play to thank everyone for the nomination and how honored I feel. But for now I am calling for a break from reality meaning tv and all media.   LOL.  However you can break it just for little ole me. Kidding not nessessary but I wanted to share. I am not quiet sure if it will air on tv. But more deets to come as I get them all I know is I am missing wearing a great dress and the shoes………………….oh the shoes……..Well all in God’s time.

Drink Green it is Thirsty Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let’s start making plans while sipping a cold one. Green Juice for one please with a little tabasco.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

May 09

Pain….. What Now?

                 Good Morning Hot Shot?

Well, maybe not. If like me you woke up this morning to rain and pain then you may be having a rough time of it. I had been dragging this leg of mine around all night and I should have known since I was hurting that today would be a day I was not looking forward to. So, let’s get this ugly topic out in the open. Pain and rest are going to part of your life now. Whether you run a Mission like I do working on a world wide takeover or you are a writer, a motivator or work for someone else. The glitch here is some days there are not enough pills in the bottle or shots at the doctor to fill the whole of how bad cancer and other diseases can hurt.

Let’s make a plain. Hoping that since we know these days are lurking for us from time to time let’s either vow to make a few choices at the market to keep us from cooking. If your eating well it should be easy. Eighty percent veggie and 20 percent other so you can have a nice salad and some pre-grilled chicken breast you have frozen and ready to thaw and warm. Or something easy for dinner. Remember when I said stay on top of your household chores. These days are why. Nothing is more frustrating then getting  up barely able to get to the coffee or tea and realize that your home is a wreck. If like me you have family to take care of you really need to be organized so that you can keep them in dinner and a good environment for you to rest. Meds organized, food ready and ask for help. Even the elderly are more than happy to have the chance to help you if you ask. My Mother and Father in Law live with us and it is a joy. It is so sad to say that in fifteen days they will move into their own place but I will be able to see their back porch from my front window and my office window looks straight at them. However it will be lonely. We have laughed more, cried more, played more and learned more than I ever dreamed.

Take this little ditty. Everyone in Louisiana knows that Elvis got his start playing the Louisiana Hayride. Well, I did not know that my father in law hung out with Farren Young, Jimmy Harris, and Elvis because he played the hayride he was a fighter or boxer I guess is the right term but he grew up with Farren Young so he traveled the weekend route with them. Cool Beans. Anyway I love the stories.

Now back to pain. My Father in law has also taught me a lot about dealing with pain. he has a tremendous pain tolerance. He is amazing. He and my Dad both were born in the thirties when you  don’t complain about just anything. We young’un’s complain about everything. We would surely not have made it through the great depression. So, you might ask what does, Elvis, Papa Leonardo and cancer pain have in common. A lot. Music can keep you mind off pain, and you parents can teach you a lot about what is nessessary to be done and what isn’t. On pain days just do what you have to and get by.

Pain Management and Meds. This is a topic that is sooooo important in the treatment of cancer and other pain causing diseases. Get a good pain management specialist and stick with them. Follow the rules. Don’t over take your meds even on a really bad day. If you are having a day that would cause you to over take your meds you need to call your team and let them know. They can help you rate the pain, get you some relief or tell you to rest for a day or two and life will change. But if you have a good team and mine is the best. Listen to them and utilize them. My doc loves hearing about my good days. Since I don’t bother him during the month unless it is an emergency or the Col. broke another bone he is usually able to help me. However I save calling him for a shot for major I need an emergency room moment. Don’t abuse anything if you do the meds will stop working.

So today I am alternating heat and nothing. I do not believe in icing a back. My nerves are a problem so icing makes it worse. And ice can cause damage so be careful. Ice for a few minutes then heat a few minutes on ankles and others. But on my leg, moist heat and I use my Lidoderm patches. Those little miracles.

My big revelation for you today is have a pain day plan. Food, help, manageable days and a good book. If you haven’t joined booksense on facebook do. It will keep you in good reads and I love releasing a really good book out into the wild. I place it on a bench in the park a bathroom in a resturant with a note saying please take me home and read me then release me again. I love that. There is a club that does that they even have a tab you can run off and place in the book and scan the code and see all the places the book has been.  Check out www.bookcrossing.com they are fabulous and it is a neat game for the readers amoung us.

Now since today is a huge pain day for me. I am laying low. Making the beds and feeding folks is the only chore. I am opening a new website later today for the joy of it. I will fill you in on it but it will be the opposite of this space. All about fashion and the art of design. When I was a young college student my first degree was in graphic and interior design I use to paint in the tourist districts of New Orleans when Duncan would take me before we got married and enjoy the time. I am going to be going all fashion all the time and if you know me personally you know my three loves, heels, huskies, and hair  but fashion is an art and I will be bringing you a new way of looking at the world. I pull the high end. Buy some and then find ways of replicating it on a budget. Nothing can replace your Channel or even your grandmothers Channel it still works and always will but we can be classy and covered and enjoy the art of fun of fashion. So I will be giving you links for the first look tomorrow. Time to talk about something fun. Now grab a bunch of old vogues and pull out all the photos of what you would love to wear while resting and paste them in a sketch book. We will conquor that easily.

Rest, Relax and Recoop. Tomorrow is another day Scarlett.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

May 08

How Are You? Fine?

         My husband is a retired special ops Col. and he is amazing when it comes to motivating people. He does not however like the answer FINE. When people say they are fine they are not confident, happy or in the flow of life. He has an acronym for FINE it is F. freaked out, I. insecure, N. neurotic, E. emotional. And you know that is just how cancer makes you feel at times. So if your feeling FINE then let’s see if we cannot get that boat moving in the right direction.

First, unless you have active or inactive cancer both can make you feel like a spagetti noodle! Or a gutted worm with all the stuffing slung out. If you don’t have cancer you cannot possibly understand how the cancer patient feel. If you are a caregiver you have your own set of issues that can make you feel this way but this is about the patient.

I have often said I have had stage four sarcoma for 8 years. It is inactive meaning not growing however it makes me feel like hammered hell on some days. I have learned that we as patient’s have to use all the tools at our disposal to work up to a day and sometimes those days are rough. I have no cute acronym for those days. You are held together getting what you need to get done by sheer grit and the ability to motivate yourself not to stay in bed all day. I have people all around me that have the luxury of staying in bed and recovery, because someone else is going to get up and do the work for them. That is not me and if you are the major caregiver in your home and ill, it is not you either.

So what do we do. Well, the first thing I am going to tell you is ask for help. Organize your help in ways that make you live a better life. If your a senior sign up for meals on wheels. This way you are not always having to rely on yourself to cook a meal. If you aren’t always make extra casseroles or dishes you can prepare that are easy on your body and your budgetThis is a great alternative.If someone asks you if you need something say sure, I have a pain management surgery on Tuesday how about a cassorole nothing huge or expensive maybe a soup. Something they are eating one night that would make a good left over so there is no extra work on  you. Also get some rest. Rest is so important. I took the entire weekend and was going to rest, however this did not happen. I worked myself to the bone because I had to my house was a wreck. Clothes were piling up and I had no choice. Well, I felt I had no choice. I love how my house looks but hate the way my body feels, I could do without the pain. Oh well, we make lots of choices that impact our lives. That is the point of this post.

Our choices can leave us all feeling FINE.  And that leads to snips and quips and words being said that shouldn’t. It also makes everyone around you on edge because you are as sharp as a razor blade. You feel like you just slide down a razor blade into a bowl of alcholol to be exact, but you may not realize you are making a lot of people feel the same way.

Here are some sure fire remedies for the FINE’S!

Give yourself permission to not be super human. Martha Stewart has a staff making sure all that staged perfection looks the way it does. I knew her years ago for a day and she talked about how hard it was making her home the show place she wanted it to be. She was sleeping three hours a night and working herself to death. This was way before fame. It was at a luncheon in Pensacola promoting her first book Entertaining. Well, I adore Martha and her ideas, her work ethic and her ironing of sheets but once you have cancer you may have to stretch those things out a bit or bring the sheets to the dry cleaners clean to be ironed. You can live the life you want if you forgo a pizza out and put it toward making your life better.

Now besides rest keep up with your work around the house and at home. Don’t let the sun go down on a  dirty kitchen or a untidy home. That way on the days you wake up feeling like hell you are not looking at a mess you feel like there is no way to conquor.

Also remember that you are dealing with an unknown variable something that can change by the minute. Prepare. If your not in this to win it , the entire process will eat you alive.

Each day I get up think about my Uncle and my Dad who are going through completely different processes in the cancer journey. Or maybe it is the life journey. But all the families members are praying, bargaining and making it right with God. The other common denominator is peace. Find some peace. Peace within yourself, peace with your mortality, peace with the process because peace fosters health. Just as stress makes you health decline.

Let’s handle the  acronym one letter at a time.

F. Freaked Out: Well, in the beginning of a cancer diagnosis you are freaked out. You have this feeling of impending doom like tomorrow you will not wake and nothing will every be the same. You also feel like you will always be thinking about the C word forever. Not so, as you adjust to the idea of this chronic illness, God willing, you will begin to notice that you will go days without thinking about it unless someone brings it up. And folks that should be  a No-No don’t talk cancer 24/7. Give it a rest.  Allow for some normality to return to your life.

I. Insecure: we are all insecure and cancer hits all parts of our lives. Did I prepare well enough for my family if something happens? Is life every going to be the same? Will I ever feel like myself again, strong and happy? Well honestly some things have no answer but this I can promise you worrying over them will not get you one step close to an answer than just living will. So stop spinning and live. What happens after your gone will be. And in all things even if they are hard they work out. Being insecure about your health is another idea we all get. I swear we see cancer in each thing, a cough it has spread. You wake to swollen eyes you have a brain tumor. But those things will settle off. Think of how blessed you have been to have hundreds of doctors visits under you belt!!!And you came out healthy.  I would be willing to bet until this health crisis all those visits were good so don’t think they will all be bad from now on.

N. Neurotic. Well everything in our lives do feel on hyper alert status. Did you know that the national center for health revealed that a cancer patient feels the same PTSD as a solider or a person who has seen a horrid robbing or killing. So you will be a little over vigilant about things in life. Besides this is probably the first time you have realized life is not a forever thing. It is finite. So be kind to yourself and others. And spend some time on a shrinks couch or find a great community of friends online that can support you and make you feel like you are  not alone. I found a small community that had not grown wild when I was first healing that saved my life. I had folks living normal lives with cancer, even the host has cancer. Now it is a a thriving ning. So head out and find a support group that fits you. If groups aren’t your style find a set of friends that can perk you up, make light of life and make your own posse of friends. Make time to see them each week and make time to laugh and carry on. It is good for the soul.

E. Emotional. Well, this says it all. Cancer makes you emotional. It has many unseen gifts. If you are a strong and dynamic  person you will find that you are different now and people will react differently to you. However you will have your moments of crying, and being sentimental. You are being given a Dharma (life) lesson. So you may cry at commercials on tv or at unexpected times in church or looking a great art. Your mind begins to appreciate all the beauty you see all that you were running to fast on the tick tock playground to pay attention too before . So enjoy. Have the good cry give the bad ones put a  time limit on and when cornered by something unstructured or unfamiliar  just be yourself, people will adjust.

Now, once you put all the remedies into place you will no longer feel FINE you will be a bad ass survivor. So straighten those shoulders and move into the world with a new confidence. Life is beautiful and you have seen the best and worst and are now a teacher. Rejoice in all change as Russel Simmons says DO YOU!!!!  You cannot make a mistake.

Now when people ask you how you are say Fabulous!

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

May 04

Get Off the Stress Wheel Today! No Need for Dis-Ease.

               Have you put yourself on Auto-Immune? I don’t mean the auto immune disease wheel I mean being immune to the emotional drama’s  and situations in your life who just continuously suck the life out of you. Even when we use our best manners, try our best, offer and offer and offer our souls up for bits of caring or gratitude or just plain polite behavior we get blasted. Well, I am here today to talk to you about taking yourself off the stress wheel.

Have you ever felt like a mouse on a wheel that he pedals all day. I watched a movie once called BOLT about a small Husky who is a film star and he gets lost and runs from his owner. He meets up with a sly and self absorbed cat and a mouse that didn’t realise he could release himself from that toy ball he was in and actually walk somewhere. So he was rolling in any direction the wind, cars, or things around him took him. Sometimes all people feel like that trapped and rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell. But we have a release button. We are allowed by divinity to unleash ourselves from the things we have leashed ourselves to. Unhealthy relationships, approval…. begging for everyone’s approval and climb out of the ball and walk away.

Cancer begs us to put down the expectations and move on. As a matter of fact it is life threatening not to. Stress it is proven ramps up all disease processes. I have watched this process personally show itself with a type one diabetic. My Mom was diagnosed late in life to have diabetes now that  we all realize she has had it all her life. One afternoon and on more than one occasion I have seen her take a phone call, and literally watch her blood sugar go from a healthy 87 to an unhealthy 564 just because the phone call upset her so much. Now she wears a pump for her insulin that shows the numbers so this is an amazing but horrifying thing to watch happen. When you see the direct correlation between stress and disease you realize that when her sugar is up her heart and organs are being damaged and she feels awful. Now let’s apply that to cancer. Cortisol the hormone that is released to help you battle stress is way out of wack when you having cancer treatments or any kind of treatment that has to do with steroidal medicine.  So we must work daily to keep our stressors down. We are so tied into life these days. From facebook to tweeter to work calls following you from one place to the next. We are on stimulation overload.

Here is a perfect example. We as a family did not have an emergency this week but we had some health issues that had to be cleared up. While in the hospital with a loved one I was planning trips, running my business, answering email and juggling family, pet and loved one responsibilities. Then when we came in at night from the hospital we had dinners to get and we are strict and healthy eaters but sometimes only so much can be asked of a person. So we resorted to take aways. It is not hard now to find a take away that is healthy here in Mayberry. However try feeding humus and edamame sandwiches to the elderly no matter who good humored they are and they are looking at you like where is the fried chicken. It is easy to pick up fried chicken. And it is.. far to easy. Naturally like the entire last five months I have had to move work around, shoot my commercials and tv spots at odd times and do my work long before the sun comes up. But hey we got it done.  The point being at what cost. There is some point where enough is enough.

So I called an audible. This morning I got up and made coffee and juice and got toast for those who cannot do it for themselves and headed back to bed.  It was a glorious hour before the hospital called and told us it was checkout time. Time to hop up and get moving.

I think my point is in this article is that we need techno Sabbath’s, we need family down time, and we need a nap. Literally. We also need to resolve some of those hanging chads that are out there being allowed to make you a nervous wreck with their ugliness and or neediness. Right now, my Father and my Husband are the most important things on earth. My husband has been ill and my Dad is going through Chemo so if the stress doesn’t apply to them then it is out of here.  

Now, how can you eliminate some of the toxic situations in your life? Can you turn them off, block them off facebook, make life a little less heavy. Let’s try. I am going to give all my folks with dis-ease permission right now to clean off that facebook page. If the folks their don”t make you happy block them, if you have calls you don’t  want… block them… what are smart phones for if not to be used and they are aids in your life. If you need things in your work arsenal that would step up the relaxed tone of your day pick it up. Buy extra hose, that food packing set from TJ Maxx that allows you to pack a healthy lunch without carrying all your tuperware to work. Make the day easier. Get it done now. You will be amazed how lighter you feel. Now once you have done that get ready for the biggy. I want you to take the weekend off. Unplugg or turn off the ringer on the phone, turn the volumne down on the answering machine, better yet delete them all. And then turn off the computer. And do not touch it until Monday. Take a techno break. I would add a little hippy knowledge here too. Cut off all your link system wireless routers and wireless devices and allow your body to take a break from the electromagnetic charge it is on all the time. Take the tv out of the bedroom and turn on with a book, a back-rub or just some quiet. Spend the entire weekend it quiet. If you have a family then talk about this idea around the dinner table tonight  and get it done. Make sure everyone is ready and do it as a family. You will laugh more and play more, love more and enjoy more. When Duncan’s folks moved in with us we learned that laughter is the best medicine we stay up late each night listening to old stories and learning from old lessons, we never mind a repeat because there is something we may have missed. I love the dating stories, the repairing stories and the love story they have lived. I am writing it all down for the grandchildren to have one day. Boy will it blow their minds what their grandparents have lived, done, seen and how each generation is not so different from the last. But the tv has stayed off except for the beloved western channel Papa Ray loves Gunsmoke and we are all hooked and working on how Chester leaves the show. If you know please let us know it is killing us. Then it is off and we have two hour dinners at the table filled with laughter and love. Momma is quiet but on the rare day Papa is quiet Mom’s stories fill the air and ring like wind chimes. And she is hilarious. She is the same woman from my childhood who spent every weekend Saturday night having pizza and doing hair from the time I was 14 until I was two years into college and we married and moved away. Now that they are here we can do hair and makeup daily, pedicures where last weekend.

So, the idea is no matter you family dynamic you can turn it off and tune it out. It is possible to make some space to detox your emotional life and quiet your monkey mind. Now when you get use to having a sabbath of peace we need to talk about meditation and faith. Faith and a community of people who believe as you do and work together as a unit can help you live longer, give you volunteer opportunities and give you a worship family. We have a split faith family half catholic- half Flowist, Buddhist, Jewish, Catholic, Presbyterian, Taoist. So we all worship in a different way. We are going to take Mom to mass on Sunday and Papa wants to go to temple with me and see what the practise of Buddhism is and it is something of interest to him that you can be a Buddhist and a Christian or not. Buddhism is a practice that enhances any faith. He would be great at the dharma talk because he has so much wisdom. But think about adding that to your life. It will increase the years and the value.

Now let’s get off the Auto-Immune dis-ease wagon and begin to live in the peace of life. If you don’t you will miss the hummingbirds the first vines of wisteria and the beginning of spring. Spend some time living with God not running with life. Life will happen if you concentrate on the good and detox our lives from the unhealthy.

One Two Three, Ready Steady Go! It will be okay.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

Apr 30

Cancer, Let’s Get Radical on it’s Ass!

          My husband is sitting on the phone with our tech guy he is brilliant. So I thought I would give a shout out to him for this idea. Thanks Brian. Well, I had a long talk with my Dad this weekend about his health what can help him in his battle against cancer and what cannot and how important it is to change your diet. In a world of GMO’s which stands for genetically modified foods, and foods that are so full of poison that we can hardly understand how every one isn’t sick. Then we have snake oil salesman telling you to buy a specific vitamin or nutrient and that will be the one thing that cures you. Well honey bean if only it were so easy. There is a way to manage cancer with food I have been doing it for years and so have others that I know. I have stage four sarcoma and that my friends is a bitch. So, needless to say when I walked out on chemo against doctors orders eight years ago without a backward glance I realized that I was up to my ears in two options. One I would either die, two I would find a way to make my body as healthy and as strong as possible so that cancer didn’t have a fighting chance or at least I had a fighting chance.

Now, believe me I have seen the eye roll and know that food is not what people want to discuss but just think that mitigating or killing your cancer a little a day with your food could happen. Would you do it. I did and I haven’t had a cell growth in 8 years. I am talking a radical shift in thinking and acting toward what you eat, how often you eat and what you drink. Cancer is a radical process  including your medical treatment you have got to change the life you are living radically in order to kill it. Life cannot continue as usual that is how you got this damned disease.

Now here is something interesting did you know that Chlorophyll and Blood have the exact atomic make-up except that the center of the chlorophyll has magnesium in the center of the atom and the blood has iron. Think about that. Did you know that in WWII that the nurses and doctors had blood shortages in the Pacific Realm and they used Coconut Water as plasma when a solider was bleeding out because it worked. Now think about that remarkable idea. That the juice from that little nut was so powerful it could help us manufactor new blood. Now, here is another new idea imagine that you could starve the cancer…. because something in your body is feeding it. Let’s think of that differently something your eating is feeding it. So stop eating the crap that cancer loves. I am going to give you a little list of just a few things you can do to radically get the ball moving and head off some cancer growth. Now the dreaded list and it is not so bad. I am not going to tell you to be a fruitian lol or someone who only eats fruits that have fallen from a tree or some new age hippy shit that make you think I am crazy.

Here is a simple idea. Sugar feeds cancer in the same way that gasoline feeds a wild fire. We could swing off this idea all over the world about modified foods, organics the rest of the story.. but let’s just sit on this sugar feeds cancer. Now how much sugar do you eat a day. I am not talking about the powder you put in your coffee or tea, I mean all of the sugar. Bread, rice, noodles, spagetti, high sugar fruit, the whole kit and cabbudle.

‘This weekend my Dad asked me why did they want to have him cut sugar out of his diet completely but in the chemo lounge they serve you white bread sandwiches and cookies and Popsicles. Well, has anyone ever gotten a bill for a soda from a chemo lounge …. NO! Why? Because the drug companies are comping those meals. They are making sure you give them repeat business. And here is another kicker.. chemo and cancer makes you crave sugar.. so this little brat must be tamed. My Dad is an Old Southern Gentleman from Louisiana he has been raised on red beans and rice, rice and roast and gravy, etouffee and rice… rice rice rice.. white bleaches rice. Brown rice is a low glycemic index food list but to my Dad it is also the anti-christ of all good things. So, this is not going to be easy. However the results will begin to show immediately. And here is another tip. Don’t buy any processed foods you have no idea even if it is from a health food store if the corn was modified even if the food although labeled as organic. Organic means no pesticides but it has nothing to do with no modification and we know next to nothing about what these cloned and modified disease resistant cells will do to our bodies. My idea now is let’s just get rid of the sugar. Sugar is white death it is legal and it is Cancer’s lover. So let’s think about that…. I hate cancer so I plan to do everything to kill the evil little cells that I can.

Now I brought it up so I want to get Buddhist on you for a moment. Let’s not hate. I do not hate my cancer it is my teacher. Negative emotions are cancer feeders to just like stress. So let’s understand that all things in life are teachers and we can use cancer as we can use any other thing that happens in our life as a teacher. It is not meant to put your life or mental attitude about life in a  black and dark place. Sure it is awful. Cancer is a killer. But we have a cure for most cancer’s and we have learned to move past that terminal idea. You know diabetes and life in general are terminal conditions so since God is the only entity that knows you expiration date let’s now dwell. It is chronic it can be healed if not cured and kept under treatment. My father in law has had cancer for about 20 years now lymphoma and lung cancer, esophageal cancer and others and he is alive and kicking up a storm. So, let’s put those old ideas to rest so we are not always thinking about our eternal rest. It will come probably because we ate SUGAR or MONSANTO  killed all nutritive value in our food but for now we are alive we have power over that little word cancer and we can make a change in our life and live. No child or adult is promised tomorrow so let’s use today and be in control of our life and our decisions. Our decisions got us here, let’s make active decisions to get out of this rut. And believe me I know we have a lot of passive cancer victims who’s decisions had no participatory value in their cancer but your in the game now so throw the damn ball. Right.

Alright. Sugar is the evil of the day. Pack you food Daddy for the chemo lounge and no diet products those cokes and sodas are full of neurotoxins in aspertane but that is another days article. Move it Brooks I love you Papa these post are for you and our journey down this road together. We will come out the other end. You and the family pulled me through and we will help pull you and others through with your story.              

Much love all please pray for my Dad and his best friend my Uncle Mickey who are both fighting cancer right now.

Much Love.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

 

Apr 26

What Defines Winning- Hope

      Hello Sunflowers,

How are you? Well you know I am back writing about all things cancer because now not only I have been affected but my Dad was told he had advanced bladder cancer. The reason I chose this topic is because I have been inspired. You see we all work in some sort of medical field. I here, informing you all, speaking on cancer around the globe so hire me.. lol. My sister who is so brilliant is now working on a chemo ward as a nurse specialist and she is amazing. And my Mother has turned full time wellness warrior.

When the diagnosis was given it was a pretty bleak moment, but then isn’t it always. I have stage four sarcoma that is stable,lazy and pretty much tamed so we are use to cancer. But Bladder Cancer can be a bear to treat once it has escaped the bladder into the lymphatic system. And by the time the good doctor found that it was not low grade cancer the athor doctor had assumed …………..it was we were in for a fight. Well, we are two weeks into chemo and Dad is doing well. He felt stronger this week, is losing less blood and is winning. He is going to win. I often preach here that we manifest our own miracles. As we all got the news my Mom stood up and said we are not claiming this!!! Your Dad is healing the chemo will work and we will not have a thought other wise. So we as a family shelved the subject and are working off the thought and prayer he is well already he just has to go through the process. And by jingo it is working. Dad is healing his lymph nodes are shrinking and all is going well. I know we have a  bladder to remove and that will not be easy but hey..at this point no more catheters will make my Dad do backflips.

I suppose what I am trying to convey to you as in the worse case cancer scenerio’s HOPE and FAITH is always,always at work. So make sure that you never let that guard down. Visualize and plan for the life you will be living after cancer and live now. No need stopping the things that make you happy because all we are really promised is today. We are amazing creatures of God and we are part of the SUPREME ENERGY SOURCE so take that higher self of yours and make it work.

Don’t mope and not cope. Turn life into what you love, enjoy it and live out of gratitude and you will see that things always do go your way even if the answer to your questions to the Universe is different than what you expect.  Hell, it is always different, amazing and the perfect answer. So, be ready to respond to life as the LIfe Source responds to your requests. Remember those laws… we are governed by them.

Life, Love and Laugh Now!

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

Apr 23

Be Present. Don’t Rob Yourself of Today!

           You may think that wallowing in a little self pity is called for, you do have cancer or a family member with cancer or a problem or many problems that just seem to keep coming up. However, the tide needs to change.Once you begin to hang on to the negative the day is doomed and then you are robbing yourself of the present. And truly people in the grand scheme of things today is all we have. I woke up this morning after giggling myself to sleep with the Colonel and the In-Laws.

 Well, I woke up and I was aggravated. I have about a trillion things to do and I swear to you nothing is getting done. I have meds that have to come from the VA and haven’t Duncan is seizing non-stop this morning and here we sit, mired down in doing nothing. My house is messy and everyone sleeps. It is two in the afternoon. Now tomorrow I have to head over to the salon for a lovely morning with Jason and then we have grunt work to do all day, we have piles to handle, getting I.D.’s going to the Doctor, then getting everyone routed around and where they need to be. So to say I have been a little bit frustrated is to say the least. Now, once I realized how aggravated I was and how I was taking it out on everyone around me I decided I was not only robbing myself of a beautiful spring day but I was robbing my husband and family and all who work for me of enjoying a lovely day. So REBOOT IT CALLIEKYLE.

Well, hell, now I am trying to get life settled. Winning by default I would say. My Mom who is often quoted in these pages has said get happy in the same pants you got mad in. Thanks Mother. She is my conscious and my voice of reason that runs nonstop in my head. Alright BONNIE KYLE situation repaired. No more fustzing around.

The point of this blog is that we all steal away our precious moments. We steal the days by worrying about cancer and illness and problems with money. We see that as time goes by that today is really all we have. You know it is odd that we all have problems however we all have the chance to change our life daily. Today it is important more than ever to realize that life is what we make it. Just as I was making life miserable I realize we all can make a bright day.

It only took a second to be honest it is the actual typing while happening scenario. I was angry when I sat down to type, now I am thrilled and hear the breeze blowing and the winds whistling and the birds singing.  The dog is not making me want to strangle her she is just puppying up, she is so silly, she is just being a pup. She is precious. Earlier…. I just wanted to kill her. Now don’t call PETA… I don’t mean literally but I have been chasing her around going no Bella, don’t run on the furniture, don’t run on my coffee TABLE!!!! And don’t tinkle in my office. Great morning.

My family wanted to have a cake last night for a snack after dinner. You see my Mother in Law has Alzheimer’s and she was having a great day. She was just as clear as a bell so we were celebrating. Enjoying one another and making the most of the day. It was nice. We laughed all night well into the morning and it was a blessing. Well, today is here and everyone is sleeping and nothing is getting done. So instead of sending me into nut ville I am just going to enjoy the quiet.

Life is what you make it so make today a gift to yourself and don’t be a gloomy loomy be a perky turkey! Life is short. That is why they call today a present.

Have a good Day and so will I. Laugh Out Loud Today It is Good For the Soul.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

 

Apr 20

Rules to Live By. They Will Change Your Life!

             Yesterday, we spoke about the idea that during and after this phase of your life has passed you will be different and be chomping at the bit to build your “Vision”. I think that it is time to unleash some well known secrets. Believe me when you tune into people like ( Joel Olsteen, Anthony Robbins, and Me, all motivational speakers and Life Coaches) they will tell you the same thing. If you can invision yourself in this life; you can live it. If your vision of yourself is limited your life will be limited.

Callie it cannot be that simple can it? Well, I never said anything was simple. So, listen and learn little chicken.

The first law of the universe is Karma. None of us can escape it. What you put out into the universe will come back to you in kind. In the Bible it is stated ” Your reap what you sow.” So simply put you do good things: in time good things come back to you. I have found that the farther you dive into your spiritual self, your true self, Karma gets fast. I mean boom-a-rang fast. I am by no means a saint but if I do something ugly or say something ugly, it takes all of about ten minutes for that little bit of Karma to show up in my life. Some days we all feel like Oprah when she said she often writes in her journal ” Lord please don’t teach me anything tomorrow! I need a day off!” So her Karma is at work. I imagine she is a deep and abiding servant and practices the art of gratitude moment by moment because students always want to learn and excell, she does. Obviously  she would not be a great teacher today if she hadn’t been a good student. There are many public figures who are great teachers. Pay attention. We have some great authors who are teachers; Eckhart Tole is one. If you get a change read his book “The New Earth” it is lovely and boy will you learn a lot about these  laws of the universe.

The second law is the Law of Attraction- this little honey can really be a bumble bee to tame so pay attention to it. You say and make what your world is you create your own reality. Example: have you ever sat around bemoaning what you have. Oh, I am so broke, so alone, so whatever… well did anything change or did the situation get worse. I bet it got worse. I bet that the situation got a lot worse. My Mother has a saying” I am not claiming that.” Or” I am claiming this.” Meaning that she will not speak the negative she will only speak the positive. With my Dad going through his cancer treatment right now she talks only of what they will do in the future and how it is healing him. She is planning and creating her new reality. Dad is catching on he is planning to be more grateful for his body and treat it better and enjoy life. He has already begun to take steps out into a new beautiful world. I have to say though my Dad is a master at manifesting his reality. He just normally didn’t apply it to health. That was always a given. But now he is. The healing is coming, we are counting on it.  If you create a fear based reality where cancer wins it has won before the battle got started. We have beaten in through my battle to often to toss the towel in now cancer knows us and fears us LOL. It doesn’t have a chance. She is a master at this law, my Mom. I had great teachers as a child.  When we have been worried about our money she says to stop worrying and thank God for all you have. I promise it will be enough to cover everything you need. She is right it always is. However when I was younger and didn’t appreciate her wisdom as much as I do now.  I would often doubt or invision myself needing or in a state of lack. The fear  I would not have enough for  what I needed won each time and soon that little scenario I had feared  appeared. Now I just claim the good and release the bad. There is no need to tie God’s hands and not allow him to gift you with all he wants to gift you if you worry or create new realities for yourself.

Now, you may be asking am I really saying You/Me all of us create our complete reality. Yepper!!! I am. From the state of your life, to the order of your sucessesor failures. However, now that you know how to control the Law you can create the reality you have dreamed to have. Here is the only caveat. I never want you to believe you can add or take away one minute from another’s life or bring a life into being that God does not destine. That is God’s decision. You can change the course, the joy, the way you live and the abundance in which you live by making new choices. So choice wisely young Skywalker…. Yoda Rocks.

The Law of Abundance is an amazing and misunderstood Law. So I am going to try to simplify it without taking away the essence of it. The essence of the law is this God wants, and strives to fill your life with all that you can imagine but as all things there is a hitch. The hitch is gratitude. If you take what you have today are a good steward of it and then are utterly and completely satisfied and grateful more fruit will fall from the sky. Here is a shallow example have you ever noticed how easy it is to get a job when you have one, but how impossible it seems to get one when you don’t. Well, in the time you are employed you are living in a state of gratitude. You are thankful you can pay your bills, thankful you are being of use to your world and taking care of your family. Not is a state of worrying that ties God’s hands remember prayer opens God’s hands, worry ties them. Because worry is a form of distrust. A state without gratitude. The idea is that if we live in a state of complete and utter gratitude to the most High for all things big and small we begin to notice how much larger our lives get. We have more literally and as we give love and share we gather more. Then we begin to get specific in our prayers. If you are not specific why should God be. Cultivate being specific in your prayer life.  God will answer. The Universe is set up to respond to you. Remember he made this earth and all it”s glory for us to live and enjoy.  But you must believe. Believe the answer is yes and it is coming. Now I am not saying wishing to be a millionaire will happen if you pray for it nightly. I am saying that if you participate in a life of gratitude and the allow God to do his work i.e. don’t worry. Then you work daily toward your dream God will open the doors to the dream.If you keep working with God as you partner you will become whatever you dream.

Here is a small example a friend had. I hope she doesn’t mind me sharing. She wanted desperately to go to a conference. She prayed and then began to email the people who run the conference. Although she received all kinds of answers she was not deterred. A day later a gentleman called and said I have one ticket left to this conference would you like to come.  YES!She was screaming inside.  Now off she goes. As she enters the conference she dares to begin to formulate the idea that she would like to be a presenter and speaker at this conference in the coming year. She has brought a gift for the person who runs the conference a product she hand makes and held out giving it to them until the end. She has challenges so she was sat in the seat right next to the conference coordinator because she is in a wheelchair. She had brought her husband with her without a ticket based on faith. He was wisked in and they were off, without a second thought. The whole time she was practicing gratitude. When intermission came  the conference  director asked her if she was a presenter. Well, no she replied.  I would love to be on next year program. The director took down her name and she still held out giving the director the  gift until the end of the program. As it closed she said thank you for the ticket and the chance to be here it was life changing. I would love to speak next year. And she presented him with her gift. Within  the gift she included her information, her contact, her up an coming book descprition, and a lovely thank you packet. It was just God that held her the one and only wheelchair appropriate seat in  the entire auditorium next to the directors seat. However it was her thoughtfulness and graditude that prompted her to prepare and bring a gift. She was prepared for her miracles and open to accepting them. Get the idea prepare for yours.

The fourth law is a preparation Law… Did you see the movie Field of Dreams. If you build it they will come. If you go out on a limb to get to the fruit of the tree you will see that  extreme belief along with acts of faith y back yields to you extreme results. If you pitch an idea to Showtime and you are ready. You have followed all the above laws and are working with gratitude and done your home work Showtime will come to you wanting screen play begging you for it. But building something is not enough. I could work on this website until Kingdom come and it would do me no good at all, if I didn’t get grant money, and spend time pounding the pavement for customers and keep the work coming. Making new products for Basic Missions means adding new footprints in the steps of faith for God to bring about more abundance. I have truly been blessed.

So Simply put ‘ If You Build it they will Come.’ We will explore this more lately. I want you to marinate in gratitude today. Begin a journal right down the smallest and largest things you are grateful for and watch how long the list is.  I want you to dig deeply into your faith. As a matter of fact search your Bible, Quran, and Holy Books online you will find each of these laws in each holy book. So that is homework. Prove it to yourself. Then begin practice being a good steward. Being grateful and prayers. Also spend some time with your mind quiet so you can hear God speak. He listens to you and me and the billions of people on this planet pleading, bargaining off, begging and thanking day and night even if those are human ideas. Take some time and see what God has to say. I bet it moves you into a new life that is far better than you ever dreamed.

Do you and be grateful for YOU! There is only one of you.

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apr 19

What are You Going to Do With Your Life Now?

    THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. 

    I SPREAD MY DREAMS BENEATH YOUR FEET BECAREFUL BECAUSE YOU TREAD ON MY DREAMS. W.B. YEATS. 

                    Cancer or any major illness changes you in ways you can never imagine. So, as the title suggests what is next? First we decide to thrive and live and now we decide what we want. I think that most people know what they want to be when they “grow UP” long before they are fifty and they tend to put it on the back burner. The one single bright thing inside cancer is that it allows nothing to go on the back burner. So, where is the dream what is the promise of a new day. Today is the first day of the rest of your life and you can keep on doing what you have always done. Or will you get up and do something you have never done and get a result you never thought you’d get?

I have a hidden belief that when we take our TRUE selves and put them in a box and then do what is expected. Sooner or later, we begin feeling ill at ease then dis-ease then disease sets in. I believe we can change that by doing your job we all have to work but beginning your dream.

Ask yourself these questions?

WHO ARE YOU?

WHAT DO YOU LOVE THE DOING THE MOST?

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR CALL IN LIFE IS AND HAVE BEEN SWEEPING IT UNDER THE RUG?

ARE YOU AN EXCUSE JUNKY.. NOT TODAY, THIS JOB HAS GREAT INSURANCE, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

I am not advocating that you throw all good common sense to the wind but I am asking you to think long and hard about life. You will probably be a different person when this cancer treatment is over and I bet you will have shaped your life differently too.

All my life I wanted two things and believe me they were not in order or I didn’t understand how to get them. One was to be famous and be on stage. I have no idea what that meant. I think now;  since people do know me a bit; it was more being heard. Although I would still love to perform and may who knows. Right now my life is my performance. And to be a public person who helps others. Someone on the stage like Joel Olsteen rocking stadiums is the full dream and it will happen. I love people who have drunk their own kool aid! They really believe in themselves and share that with others. When I was a young adult I put those dreams away and became a wife to a special ops person in the military. This changed my dreams a bit. To be honest I was a weak woman and allowed my dreams to be hijacked years ago when I turned down artistic scholarships in order to listen to my parents, my fears, anything but my inner voice. You see I caved to a fear of failure. You see those voices that were trying to protect me gave me an excuse to blame them and not do or be. It was all me all the time.My fear my problems.  Life and dreams always come back to you. We are responsible for every milimeter of our lives and there is no denying that. If I truly believe what I preach that we manifest our own miracles, then we manifest our own downfall too. Our own hiccups we allow to happen. We  cop out on ourselves.

Today my inner voice rules. I listen to it. I have begun to live through it. My husband always supported me but I didn’t: so the businesses or jobs I held were behind the scenes. And I have had plenty. I painted murals for peoples homes, decorated homes, cooked and went to cooking school, worked for a florist and loved creating beautiful arrangements, and selling I loved to up sell. I worked for a cardiologist those poor folks. Bless them having a chronically unhappy woman with major migraines and severe dyslexia. I swear I was probably kept on because I was a size six and nice to look at. Bless them anyway  I was kept on. God knows who ekg was filed where. It was a  nightmare for me although the people where lovely. Then I opened a catering bs. This led me to a place of knowledge. In the kitchen I am completely self-assured it is my place.  I learned that I work best on my own and by myself. I can hire help and delegate but I am better at creating. Then I came to Mobile and went back to school and began to get sick. I was falling apart at the seams. I believe with my whole heart it was because I had dishonored my feelings. I shut myself up in a world of self loathing. I was anorexic, bulimic, migraine laden mess. Poor Duncan. Then cancer struck. Oy vey. Well, that was a moment I decided it was not over yet, not even close.  If you want something different you have to be something different. So I changed. I brought my voice forward. I leaned into ‘THE FLOW’ and began to “do me.” No longer did I work to please others I found something that I was passionate about in Basic Missions and have been helping others for ages. It has been wonderful. Now I look back and see mistakes I have made and want you to learn from them. I also see how cancer can be a catalyst and change our lives for the better weather you are 37 when it hits or 77. Life is worth living fully.

Let’s get cracking on a new plan. Let’s decide that we will live healthy, get involved in life with others and make a change in this world. Every person should leave a mark on life when they pass. People should be able to say he/she loved the best, wrote the best, changed the world for the better. If you only touch one person. I am looking for a dialogue here. What is you plan. What is your secret. Can you sing like Christina Aguleria and it is only brought out for the traffic singing to the radio. I use to love to sing in public, I sang at bars in high school and felt like I was riding on angels wings.  Do you love politics or sailing. When your well or before what changes are you going to make in your life. I really want to here from you. So send in those comments. You know I would love for us to discuss this more. If you life I have two life coach programs that I produce. And I would love to work with you getting your dreams for the new life you have ready. Beginning. So write me. Let’s begin something new together.

What are your plans?

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

P.S. here is a great current example our Grace. She has an idea boom she opens a new venue a new bs. plans a new book. She is totally tuned into her inner voice. She is working to make her life her dream and if she can do it with limitations that she has turned into assets then baby you can do it with a whole body and strong mind. So think about that.

Apr 17

The Healing Food Pyramid. From Detox to Vegan.

      Here is my detox pyramid. Well a friend put it on her facebook and it was perfect for getting you to slowly eliminate the bad foods and leaves you some space for meat if needed. Read on to understand. Later I will give you the Vegan Pyramid.   

Now people who know me get so damn sick of hearing me talk about food. There was a time I acquired rapturous attention for talking about Chicken in Puff Pastry and Roulad’s or flat souffles that were filled with sauteed peppers and strip steak somewhat like fajitia’s. Getting into French fare I cooked in school and at home and wooooooooo baby.. talk about attention. Jump forward ten years and I am going on and on  about the divine Kale salad or Kale chips in sea salt in my bag or the virtues of Doubles which are chickpea burgers and eyes glaze shut.

WELL THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL.

The SAD..Standard American Diet is killing us all. The crap we have been taught to eat and feed our children are causing problems that run from basic allergies and overloads of mucus. Show me a baby with a bottle in his hand all the time and I will show you a kid so jacked up on hormones from cows milk it is like crack and they are flowing mucus from their noses. It is awful. SO the SAD diet is right literally. It is SAD. So we are going to flip that thing and start thinking healthy. If you can imagine that just eliminating one food a week we don’t want you to go all out stop eating everything you are use to all at once. I am asking you to branch out and add healing meals to your diet slowly replace the foods that are horrid with suitable sub.s and move on to your healing lifestyle.

You might ask what got me back on this little tangent. Well My DAD. He was diagnosised with a mean case of bladder cancer that literally could kill him although we are blessed and have got a plan to kill it first. But I have been talking about Business models that do work as healing models and vision boarding which we must do to heal also but now we are back to what works NOW. Are you listening Brooks Broussard… the greatest dad with the hardest head on earth. lol. Although he is morphing into a healing machine.

So yesterday, I was at my doctor getting my pain management and met a lovely lady and her husband who were was so amazing her smile would light up the world she asked me to put up a shopping list and a food guide. She also has a rare issue called RSD a dear friend of mine Maria Mooney is thriving with RSD she never thought she would go to college or be working and now not only is she sharing her wealth of raw vegan foods but she is sharing her life in her blog RSD Going Down Swinging. By the way she is a physical therapist and is brilliant. Her link is http://prefontaine44.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-mindbodygree So stop by. For those of you who don’t know Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy is a painful disease that slowly cripple with pain. It is a highly misunderstood disease and Maria in my book is an expert. You can write her at MariaMooney@comcast.net. So when I met this wonderful lady who in my drug induced state today after my surgery I cannot remember her name just her website name I was moved to hustle up and get this food model and shopping model out there.

Now here is where cancer and auto-immune disease are very different. I am a chef trained at the Cordon Bleu, I am and Urban Minister with a phd and I am a holistic nutritionist. Those things are wildly different. However I believe I am onto something when I saw although it is working well for Maria!!!! She is fabulous. I would not go all raw or all vegan for that matter with an Auto-Immune Disease. You see when you have cancer you need to build you immune system. When you have an auto-immune disease it means that you immune system has been over built like skyscraper that has no foundation and caves in on itself. My husband has an auto-immune disease and he just balances his diet with free range fish, organic sugar at times, and organic meat. I mean no corn fed meat organic… range feed. If you went to your local butcher and explain the situation I bet they would save you bones for bone stock which can save your life it is nature antibiotic and should be in your fridge fresh and frozen at all times. The marrow in that bone contains stem cells and the cooked marrow gives our cells a boost. It also keeps the immune system from collapsing on itself.

I am going to cover a lot here but we will be back on certain issues so don’t fret. Fat is your friend. Coconut oil is the best oil you can buy I only use coconut oil to cook and bake with. It is a  bit more expensive but honey does a little quarter size dollop go a long way. Avocado’s and Whole Fish oils and Raw Butter can change your life. You pant size will drop and your body will thank you. So when you see the shopping list don’t freak out. It is no more expensive than normal shopping for the garbage in the prepared section. We don’t go in there… except for coconut oil and rice flour or unbleached whole flour and spices. Got it. Stick to the outside of the market. No cheating… on Lorna Dunes or Nutella. NO Nutella is not health food neither is Jiff. Get your nuts and treats whole or make your own peanut, almond or walnut butter yourself in a blender. Much better and better for you. They have a short shelf life so go easy. Many of us know you can be a junk food vegan so we are all detoxing together.

Alright here is the Vegetarian Pyramid Remember to lay off sugar period if you have cancer. None Nada No…. So breads, rice, potatoes, go easy on those until your healing is well under way and then you can add somethings back. If you want to make a well rounded meal make your bread up the night before place it in a zip bag and tomorrow night your a hero for making fresh bread. Also brown rice can be a great healthy substitute in a Buddha bowl. More on that later.

 

Vegan Pyramid

Now we are talking and yes there are medicinal foods. For centuries the Chinese have used bitter melon to control type two diabetes until a healthy diet kicked in to be honest they use it more on type one becaue type two is rare. However here in the U.S. I have used bitter melon on my patient’s and family and it works. A little in Miso Soup for breakfast wtih some brown rice and you are heading for a great sugar day. Yes, it is bitter but it works. And it beat the hell out of buying more pills. So think about that we will talk more about that later.

This is a huge subject and we have a lot to discuss.

Now you see on this raw chart lots of sugars in the form of fruit. Well, some count fruit some don’t I wouldn’t recommend a diet of pure fruit but it comes in handy as a snack that won’t hurt you and it makes a great soup with kefir, or yogurt that you can make at home and then add a smidge of home grown from your area honey. Honey is a great substitute for sugar so is agave in it’s natural form as is stevia the powder from the drugstore or the leaf not the truvia from the market.

Alright. Now how do we do this, make this transistion. Well Ani Pho has a great book called the RAW FOOD DETOX but here at Basic we have a food detox plan all you have to due is search in our little but to the right Nutritional Reboot. And there you have a whole six week program at least four six week programs to chose from. And as you detox you will notice a few things, a few blemishes, a headache or two and then you will begin to see your face as clear as a babies and the skin get taught and pink again. I am almost fifty and I am loving the way I look more today because I radiate health not because I am gorgeous. Here is the photo my husband took sans makeup………heaven help us on my 47th birthday. He woke me at five a.m. to surprise me. So forgive it. However I will post tomorrow a photo of me five years ago that would surprise you like Benjamin Button I am aging backward and that is better than botox bills.

My hair is back to it’s natural color, my skin is clear and I am aging and loving it. So that is an incintive for those who aren’t worried about their illness and healing as much as their looks and their behind size. B I weigh less now than when I got married. After chemo and traditional meds got thru with me I was over three hundred pounds, sick and miserable. And I still had cancer. Sarcoma is a bitch. Today I am 133lbs and am healthy  and cannot believe it. And of course the Sarcoma is still there still stage four but it has not had one cell growth in ten years. So well done all of us. I have many friends healing themselves. Check out Debbie Young, google her she is fabulous and she had great reciepes she is on Alexander Junger Clean Team now teaching people to eat Paleo and love it. We all have a certain twist but you will see when devising your healing plan what works for you is as individual as you are. Enjoy. Check under Juice It! For a grocery List for buying to cook scruptous recepies.

Love and Veggies,

Callie Broussard-Wheeler

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