I'm learning with a great deal of fervor that dogma exists everywhere, not just the halls of religion. It is especially prevalent in both the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine. That being said, I am trying to sort through what feels like an ocean of dogma to get at what is true.

Monday is another all day adventure with health care professionals. It's the day I spend at the Block Clinic. Although highly recommended and referred to us by trusted advisers I find myself just a bit anxious at yet another round of answering questions and being put in the position of cancer patient.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

All my life I have been an athlete, so moving has never been a problem for me. However, I have received many admonishments to be very intentional about moving for at least 30 minutes a day.

Although I spend a lot of time talking about our food, mostly because it is a very tangible subject, the truth is, all this anti- cancer stuff goes so much further than what I am eating.

One of the more well known M.D.'s who practices integrative medicine is Dr Andrew Weil. His definition of integrative medicine is "healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative."

Sometimes I wish I could just eat a piece of toast with butter and jam😝

This week I was reminded that although what I eat is really important it's not the most important thing to get me to healing.

One of the things that continues to surface in all of this is all the fear around cancer.

The opposite of fear is love, and although I know that intellectually, I would be dishonest not to admit that I don't always believe it through the rest of my body.

Last night I made a delicious mushroom pate which we had again tonight as a side with a basil pesto sauce on a little bit of quinoa pasta. As always we had a BIG salad.