“Your cancer* is not your fault. You did not do anything wrong. Do not ever blame yourself or waste a single second of your beautiful life feeling guilty.”
*or any other kind of dis-ease or trauma in your life or body.
This is an important message for everyone reading this post, not just those with cancer.
One of the biggest issues with trauma recovery is self blame, hate or guilt.
So, for those moments when you feel the weight of the guilty, the blame and even the shame (and yes I’ve been there too!) please read through these important statements:
IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT.
YOU ARE PERFECT.
YOU ARE HEALING.
YOU GOT THIS.
I AM RIGHT HERE
BESIDE YOU, HOLDING YOUR HAND, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
YOU ARE A MOTHERF*CKING BADASS. NEVER FORGET THAT!
Wishing you an epic day of healing and self-love.
Love, Fi xxx
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Fi is Currently:*
Listening to a bee buzz around my head as I type this post while sitting on the decking outside our kitchen doors, soaking up the Scottish sunshine.
Looking forward to a walk on St Andrew’s beach this afternoon with my gorgeous dog Ozzy.
Grateful for this beautiful day and for the connections I made at Trew Fields Festival at the start of the month.
Loving my amazing husband.
Excited to be spending Saturday evening with one of my favourite humans.
*this idea was taken with gratitude from Slow Your Home. Check it out.
Published by Fi Munro
Fi Munro (PhD), international selling author of ‘Love, light and Mermaid Tails’, is a multi award winning researcher, author, blogger and public speaker recognised internationally for her presentations and articles on holistic health and her journey through stage four ovarian cancer back to wholeness. Passionate about what restores people to a state of wholeness and optimal health – in addition to what predisposes them to physical, emotional and spiritual ‘dis-ease’ – she works with clients to guide them on their journey back to wholeness. Using her personal experience of recovering from a ‘terminal’ illness through a deep understanding of mind, body and spirit health and healing, alongside her background as a doctorate researcher for the NHS and Scottish Government, she has created a deep understanding of what it means to be optimally healthy and whole. Fi is a visionary in her approach to holistic health, bridging the seemingly disparate worlds of conventional and complementary therapies to create approaches that guide people on their journey back to wholeness and , ultimately, holistic health.
Fi has been featured in two BBC documentaries, in countless radio shows, and in newspaper and magazine articles across the globe. She also runs workshops and events across the UK. Her book ‘Love, Light and Mermaid Tails’ is recieving all star reviews and is available to buy worldwide on Amazon in paperback and for kindle.
Most recently she was awarded ‘Health Blogger of the Year 2017’.
She blogs at fkmunro.com and posts regularly on facebook, instagram and twitter.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. A thousand times, yes. We carry so much self-guilt and self-hate on our shoulders. We need to fully absorb your words here. I’m going to print this out and hang it on my wall. I remember a woman telling me that lymphoma was my fault. And I remember more vividly, a nurse when I was starting into a miscarriage saying ‘nothing you did caused this, and nothing you can do right now will change the outcome’. I was in the ER. I immediately burst into tears, because her words, at that moment, took away all the guilt I hadn’t even realized was on my heart. Such kindness and understanding from a stranger. Her words, years later, remind me still to offer myself that same kindness and understanding. And my son is now 23 and the lymphoma has been gone for almost three years.
Wow! I love this comment!xx