Healing, the ancient art of therapeutic intervention, once required sacred rituals and secret knowledge about the power of medicinal plants, energetic vibrations and indigenous wisdom. Today, we think about curing illness as surgical and pharmaceutical combat: we must fight, beat and conquer in order to heal. But when breast cancer survivor Lisa Zayas combines the ancient healing art of Qi Gong with modern medicine, a more comprehensive approach to saving her life yielded a positive, even miraculous outcome. Zayas tells the story of working with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner Dr. Effie Chow, a QiGong master, who takes her on a radical journey to recover from a terminal, incurable diagnosis with the elixir of self-love.

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