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Lifeshocks: How Life Awakens You to Your Most Authentic, Loving, & Creative Self
Let Cancer Transform Your Life~
In this interview, Sophie Sabbage shares how cancer is transforming her life. Sophie’s terminal cancer diagnosis was a lifeshock and it also awakened her to her most authentic, loving, and creative self. Sophie is living with terminal lung cancer despite being given a few months to live over five and a half years ago. Upon hearing her diagnosis, Sophie vowed not to be a victim and took charge of her treatment. Furthermore, Sophie shares how she found the unlikely gifts of cancer and how the illness is transforming her life. In addition, we talk about lifeshocks, those unwanted and unexpected moments in our lives, and how they can awaken us to our most authentic, loving, and creative selves.
Sophie is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers: The Cancer Whisperer, translated into twelve languages, and Lifeshocks, 2018 winner of the international Nautilus Gold Award for personal growth books. As a transformation specialist, Sophie equips people to engage powerfully with challenging lifeshocks. Also, she has nearly thirty years experience as both a business consultant and as a Senior Trainer with the More To Life Foundation. In addition, Sophie is a professional speaker.
In this episode, Sophie talks about the impact of fear on wellbeing and even on medical outcomes. Her experience of living with cancer, adversity, uncertainty, and facing death is very relevant and useful to the current coronavirus situation. Finally, Sophie says “I have cancer, it does not have me.”
Episode Highlights:
- First, Emily introduces her guest, Sophie Sabbage.
- Then, Sophie shares how she learned about her cancer. She tells us she pushed her doctors for scans.
- After that, Sophie talks about her daughter who recently turned 10.
- Sophie explains lifeshocks, those unwanted moments in time. She tells us that she is fortunate to have a toolkit for dealing with lifeshocks.
- Next, Sophie shares that she was dying of fear. In other words, when the doctor told her she was going to die, she started dying.
- Furthermore, Sophie says she needed to get through fear to have a chance to stay alive.
- Sohpie discusses the symptoms she experienced before her cancer diagnosis.
- She listened to her intuition and pressed the doctor for scans that saved her life.
- Sophie shares that she wrote her book, The Cancer Whisperer, to help patients navigate the psychological and emotional territory of a cancer diagnosis.
- No one offered Sophie emotional support and she describes what it was like to sit in oncology ward waiting for her cancer treatment. She then describes the moment that led her to write the book.
- Sophie explains, “If we don’t take hold of our fear as patients, our fear will take care of us and make the decisions and run the show.”
- She stresses the importance of not handing all of the power to the doctor.
- Then Sophie explains her darkest hour, when she learned she had multiple brain tumors.
- After that, she talks about the ways in which she educated herself and took charge of her treatment.
- Sophie says the primary reason she’s still alive is the medical treatments she received.
- After that, Sophie talks about how she took control of her appointments, even delaying a treatment so she could see her daughter’s nativity play.
- In other words, she says, “If I fit my life into cancer, I’m going to die soon in spirit if not in body. But if I fit cancer inside my life, I’m more likely to have a life.”
- Next, Sophie shares how the late Dr. K. Bradford Brown taught her to find unlikely gifts in unwanted happenings.
- After that, she explains why she wrote her second book: Lifeshocks And How to Love Them.
- Dr. K. Bradford Brown taught Sophie his mantra: There is no event by which and through which life its self is not trying to awaken you to your most authentic, loving, and creative self. There is no event that is not speaking to you.
- Lifeshocks are collision points between what we expect and how it really is.
- In other words, we run into reality and think it should be different. But actually these moments challenge our expectations, our conditioning, our belief in very profound ways.
- Sophie says “Sometimes we rise to our destinys when we’re brought to our knees.”
- Next Sophie and Emily discuss the lifeshock of the COVID-19 crisis and how we’re being humbled and reminded of what really matters.
- Sophie explains that if she held onto anything that said her life doesn’t matter she wouldn’t have been able to put energy into herself to stay alive.
- According to Sophie, the only way out of fear is through it - no way over or around it.
- Sophie shares that there is pain and suffering and illness in life but we make it worse because of how we interpret it as happening. In other words, fear is self generated by what we think.
- Sophie can control the quality of her life as long as there is breath in her body.
- Some people are free of cancer but not really free mentally.
- Everything we feel is from the neck down. Our breath brings us into our bodies and our feelings.
- Next Sophie talks about her studies and work and how they prepared her for her cancer diagnosis.
- Emily talks about benefit of sharing stories and how they can help other people move onward.
- Sophie introduces a caveat on sharing stories saying, we must be conscious of where we’re coming from when we tell our stories. She tells her story to enhance our lives.
- Finally, Sophie states “I don’t want even this podcast to be about my story. I want it to be about there is no lifeshock by which and through wich life is not awakening you to your most authentic, loving, and creative self. That’s what I want this podcast to be about and that is for everyone who’s listening. Everyone.”
Resources Mentioned:
- Sophie’s Books: The Cancer Whisperer & Lifeshocks - and How to Love Them
- Sophie’s email: [email protected]
- Sophie’s TEDx on grief
- Learn more at https://sophiesabbage.com/ and http://www.cancerwhispering.com/ to include Sophie’s on-line Masterclass
- Sophie Sabbage LinkedIn
- Emily Harman
- Soul Pajamas
- Onward: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Onward Movement Facebook Group
- PodcastPress
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Let Cancer Transform Your Life~
In this interview, Sophie Sabbage shares how cancer is transforming her life. Sophie’s terminal cancer diagnosis was a lifeshock and it also awakened her to her most authentic, loving, and creative self. Sophie is living with terminal lung cancer despite being given a few months to live over five and a half years ago. Upon hearing her diagnosis, Sophie vowed not to be a victim and took charge of her treatment. Furthermore, Sophie shares how she found the unlikely gifts of cancer and how the illness is transforming her life. In addition, we talk about lifeshocks, those unwanted and unexpected moments in our lives, and how they can awaken us to our most authentic, loving, and creative selves.
Sophie is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers: The Cancer Whisperer, translated into twelve languages, and Lifeshocks, 2018 winner of the international Nautilus Gold Award for personal growth books. As a transformation specialist, Sophie equips people to engage powerfully with challenging lifeshocks. Also, she has nearly thirty years experience as both a business consultant and as a Senior Trainer with the More To Life Foundation. In addition, Sophie is a professional speaker.
In this episode, Sophie talks about the impact of fear on wellbeing and even on medical outcomes. Her experience of living with cancer, adversity, uncertainty, and facing death is very relevant and useful to the current coronavirus situation. Finally, Sophie says “I have cancer, it does not have me.”
Episode Highlights:
- First, Emily introduces her guest, Sophie Sabbage.
- Then, Sophie shares how she learned about her cancer. She tells us she pushed her doctors for scans.
- After that, Sophie talks about her daughter who recently turned 10.
- Sophie explains lifeshocks, those unwanted moments in time. She tells us that she is fortunate to have a toolkit for dealing with lifeshocks.
- Next, Sophie shares that she was dying of fear. In other words, when the doctor told her she was going to die, she started dying.
- Furthermore, Sophie says she needed to get through fear to have a chance to stay alive.
- Sohpie discusses the symptoms she experienced before her cancer diagnosis.
- She listened to her intuition and pressed the doctor for scans that saved her life.
- Sophie shares that she wrote her book, The Cancer Whisperer, to help patients navigate the psychological and emotional territory of a cancer diagnosis.
- No one offered Sophie emotional support and she describes what it was like to sit in oncology ward waiting for her cancer treatment. She then describes the moment that led her to write the book.
- Sophie explains, “If we don’t take hold of our fear as patients, our fear will take care of us and make the decisions and run the show.”
- She stresses the importance of not handing all of the power to the doctor.
- Then Sophie explains her darkest hour, when she learned she had multiple brain tumors.
- After that, she talks about the ways in which she educated herself and took charge of her treatment.
- Sophie says the primary reason she’s still alive is the medical treatments she received.
- After that, Sophie talks about how she took control of her appointments, even delaying a treatment so she could see her daughter’s nativity play.
- In other words, she says, “If I fit my life into cancer, I’m going to die soon in spirit if not in body. But if I fit cancer inside my life, I’m more likely to have a life.”
- Next, Sophie shares how the late Dr. K. Bradford Brown taught her to find unlikely gifts in unwanted happenings.
- After that, she explains why she wrote her second book: Lifeshocks And How to Love Them.
- Dr. K. Bradford Brown taught Sophie his mantra: There is no event by which and through which life its self is not trying to awaken you to your most authentic, loving, and creative self. There is no event that is not speaking to you.
- Lifeshocks are collision points between what we expect and how it really is.
- In other words, we run into reality and think it should be different. But actually these moments challenge our expectations, our conditioning, our belief in very profound ways.
- Sophie says “Sometimes we rise to our destinys when we’re brought to our knees.”
- Next Sophie and Emily discuss the lifeshock of the COVID-19 crisis and how we’re being humbled and reminded of what really matters.
- Sophie explains that if she held onto anything that said her life doesn’t matter she wouldn’t have been able to put energy into herself to stay alive.
- According to Sophie, the only way out of fear is through it - no way over or around it.
- Sophie shares that there is pain and suffering and illness in life but we make it worse because of how we interpret it as happening. In other words, fear is self generated by what we think.
- Sophie can control the quality of her life as long as there is breath in her body.
- Some people are free of cancer but not really free mentally.
- Everything we feel is from the neck down. Our breath brings us into our bodies and our feelings.
- Next Sophie talks about her studies and work and how they prepared her for her cancer diagnosis.
- Emily talks about benefit of sharing stories and how they can help other people move onward.
- Sophie introduces a caveat on sharing stories saying, we must be conscious of where we’re coming from when we tell our stories. She tells her story to enhance our lives.
- Finally, Sophie states “I don’t want even this podcast to be about my story. I want it to be about there is no lifeshock by which and through wich life is not awakening you to your most authentic, loving, and creative self. That’s what I want this podcast to be about and that is for everyone who’s listening. Everyone.”
Resources Mentioned:
- Sophie’s Books: The Cancer Whisperer & Lifeshocks - and How to Love Them
- Sophie’s email: [email protected]
- Sophie’s TEDx on grief
- Learn more at https://sophiesabbage.com/ and http://www.cancerwhispering.com/ to include Sophie’s on-line Masterclass
- Sophie Sabbage LinkedIn
- Emily Harman
- Soul Pajamas
- Onward: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Onward Movement Facebook Group
- PodcastPress