Those dreaded words - You’ve got cancer. When they hit us or someone close to us - the whole world goes dark.

I didn’t hear those exact words - I heard - It may be cancer. I’ve had friends hear the dreaded confirmation. So lately I’ve been asking ‘what would I do if I was told I had cancer?’

And that has led me down the rabbit hole of trying to understand not just how people fight cancer whether that’s the conventional way or the natural way - but really - what is cancer? Is it like winning the lottery - the bad lottery - and it just randomly happens or are their contributing factors? Can I prevent it? Can I reverse it? Does fighting it really make a difference in the long run? I’m very curious right now.

So to make sense of things I like to write - and for me right now, this is my latest on trying to address part 1 - what even is cancer?

Imagine your body as a huge city.

Millions of tiny citizens — your cells — live there. Each one has a job: builders, cleaners, protectors, electricians, gardeners, police, firefighters.

When everything is running well, the whole city thrives.

There’s order, cooperation, and life everywhere.

But cities don’t fall into chaos overnight.

Sometimes, when you live with:

 • too little sunlight

 • too little water

 • too much stress

 • old wounds from childhood

 • habits that numb pain instead of healing it

 • junk food instead of nourishment

 • no rest, no joy, no movement

…the citizens begin to struggle, there are power outages, sewage doesn’t flow out properly, traffic jams start to take place, people are honking and screaming all over town.

Some citizens become exhausted.

They skip work. They make mistakes. They stop listening to the city’s “laws and ordinances” of health and happiness.

Others become distracted.

They get hooked on unhealthy pleasures, noise, flashing screens — things that give comfort but drain energy.

Others become numb.

They carry old pain and trauma they never learned how to heal, so they try to forget by overworking, overeating, overdrinking, or avoiding sleep.

And slowly… the city loses order.

When the city becomes weak, the police (immune system) gets tired because they are overworked.

The firefighters (repair systems) get overwhelmed.

The trash service (detox systems) can’t keep up.

And in the middle of all this…

⚠️ A Small Group of Citizens Turns Into Rebels and Anarchists

One day, a few stressed, injured, or neglected cells stop following the rules entirely.

They say:

“Forget the laws.

We’ll do whatever we want.”

They begin to:

 • build without permission

 • multiply out of control

 • steal electricity, food, and oxygen

 • force healthy citizens out of their homes

 • take over neighborhoods

 • send rebels to invade new parts of the city

This is the beginning of cancer.

It’s not just a “bad cell.” These were good citizens, but have gotten very confused on their role, their job, their mission.

It’s a rebellion — a rising of confused, damaged, and desperate citizens who no longer feel connected to the city’s original design.

It’s an anarchy movement fueled by:

 • years of stress

 • years without enough nutrients

 • inflammation

 • unhealed trauma

 • environmental toxins

 • sleep deprivation

 • emotional wounds

 • spiritual disconnection

The city didn’t collapse because of one rebel.

The whole environment became vulnerable.

So what do we do to fix this vulnerable situation?

💣 How Traditional Cancer Treatment Enters the Story

When most of us find this rebel uprising, we plan an emergency response.

And the tools we most often use today — chemo and radiation mostly — are often something like dropping nuclear bombs on the city to wipe out the rebels.

And in one sense, it works:

 • bombs kill rebels

 • bombs destroy the rebel hideouts

 • bombs stop the uprising

But bombs don’t choose targets carefully.

Bombs hurt the innocent too.

In the cancer city:

 • healthy citizens run for cover (hair loss, immune suppression)

 • important buildings get destroyed (gut lining, bone marrow)

 • communication shuts down (fatigue, brain fog)

 • the city becomes quiet… but not because it’s healed

 • it’s quiet because everything is damaged

This is why some say oncology nurses handle chemo like its nuclear waste.

Because in many ways, it is a type of controlled nuclear weapon — precise in intent but devastating in collateral damage.

After a round of bombing, the city might look peaceful.

But it’s peace like a nuclear blast leaves peace:

 • the streets are empty

 • the lights are out

 • nothing grows

 • no one feels safe

 • even the good guys are injured

Modern medicine hopes that healthy citizens went into hiding or that citizens (cells) survive long enough to rebuild after the war.

But sometimes the good guys don’t make it out of hiding.

Sometimes they’re too damaged to return to work in time.

This is why people describe the post-treatment period as:

 • barren

 • lifeless

 • quiet

 • hollow

 • like a city waiting for signs of life that sometimes never return

It’s not that chemotherapy is necessarily evil as a weapon against cancer - when used strategically and laser focused and the right form.

But what usually happens in the aftermath of the attack is that a simple rogue flu or virus comes into this ravaged city and kills the last few good guys who have started to try to fight but aren’t large enough in number and don’t have the resources to fight this rogue little start up army faction from the outside - and the cells die, the city dies - the body dies - not of cancer - but of the flu, pneumonia, something ‘small’ like a common cold or infection. Something that before the bombs and before the chaos - would have been handled by a couple police officers on a weeknight.

So what is someone to do?

🌱 A Better Way to Think: Rebuilding the City, Not Just Bombing It

The real question isn’t just:

“How do we just kill the rebels?”

The deeper question is:

“Why did the city become weak enough for rebellion to happen?” Why did systems and flow and order start to break down?

“How do we restore order, health, sunlight, nourishment, and peace so rebels have no place to grow again?”

In a healthy, thriving city:

 • rebels don’t multiply

 • bad cells get caught early

 • misbehavior is corrected

 • fires get put out quickly

 • neighborhoods stay vibrant

 • the immune police are strong

 • trauma is cared for

 • citizens feel supported

Cancer doesn’t grow in order.

Cancer grows in chaos.

And healing—real healing—is restoring order, nourishment, peace, sunlight, movement, relationships, forgiveness, and Original design.

It’s not about ignoring treatment.

It’s about understanding the whole story of why the city fell and how to rebuild it stronger than before.

To Be Continued…

I’d love to hear about your thoughts or journey with cancer or someone you love’s journey. 👋

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