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What happens when you're told your diagnosis is terminal, but something inside refuses to accept that timeline? In this deeply moving conversation, Kirsten shares her extraordinary journey with stage four metastatic melanoma, diagnosed just days before New Year's Eve in 2023.

As a seemingly healthy 37-year-old homeschooling mother of two running a successful cake decorating business, Kirsten's world transformed when unexplained pain led to the discovery of tumours in her spine and hip. Rather than succumbing to fear, she made a conscious decision to approach her diagnosis differently. "I'm not going to fight this," she reveals. "I'm going to learn to love myself through this."

Kirsten's story challenges conventional approaches to cancer treatment as she navigates both Western medicine and holistic healing modalities. From initially declining immunotherapy to eventually incorporating it alongside naturopathy, energy healing, and spiritual practices, her journey illuminates the power of an integrative approach. Through spinal surgery, hip replacement and periods of extreme pain and weight loss, Kirsten maintained an unwavering belief in her body's ability to heal.

Perhaps most poignant is how Kirsten balanced motherhood with her health crisis, protecting her children from her diagnosis while ensuring they could still experience childhood joy. Her account of community support, from her husband who told her "this is your time to heal" without guilt, to friends who sat with her in bed while she rested, showcases how crucial loving connections are in the healing journey.

Through plant medicine experiences, meditation and a profound practice of gratitude, Kirsten discovered her higher self and the wisdom that comes from facing mortality directly. "From the moment we're born, we are all terminal," she reflects, a perspective that freed her from the burden of an imposed timeline and allowed her to focus on healing moment by moment.

Listen in as Kirsten shares how learning to receive help after a lifetime of giving became one of her greatest lessons and how seeing her diagnosis as happening for her rather than to her transformed a medical crisis into a profound spiritual awakening.

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