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If You’re Scared, Try This
Where the ocean, heaven and healing meet.
Just three months into our marriage, the oncologist diagnosed my husband with lymphoma. He had a grapefruit-sized tumor growing in the center of his chest between his heart and lungs.
He’s been cancer-free for more than ten years, but the terror of that diagnosis, and the harrowing treatment that accompanied it, made an indelible impression on both of us.
Coronavirus is triggering a lot of memories that I thought I worked through. During that first year of treatment, he was immune-compromised, and we didn’t travel, or visit highly populated areas, we didn’t eat out, or attend events; we didn’t do anything to risk unnecessary exposure.
A quarantine wasn’t mandated, but we certainly chose to shelter in place. There are so many parallels to what we are experiencing now, but what I’d like to share today is a healing ritual from Hawaii.
I know it’s not possible to schedule a spa visit, and some of you don’t live near the beach, so you’ll have to be creative with how you modify the instructions to suit your environment.
