This is how my personal healing experiment became an opportunity to educate women about HPV treatment options and their power of choice-making. I share my story of regression and guide the reader through a decision-making process. My intention is to help women feel empowered to take their health into their own hands and to encourage them to continue experiencing joy every day, even in the wake of an unsettling diagnosis.
My Hypothesis
I can heal myself from stage-zero cervical cancer, at age 50, while keeping my cervix, my heart and my mind intact. Leveraging methods I learned throughout my career in software engineering, I designed my own healing experiment to prove out this hypothesis.
One Process - Infinite Possibilities
In this book, we walk together through my own decision-making process that is based on the scientific method and augmented with the power heart and mind. This can be a guide to any problem-solving really: but for our purpose now in addressing HPV and cervical dysplasia, this process is used to define your own personal experiment in self-healing.
My Experiment
Part 1: The treatment plan I designed for myself required a commitment to incorporate alternative medicine into my everyday life. I approached this as my own personal experiment in self-healing, and measured my progress with standard cervical cancer screenings.
Procedures
- Naturopathic medicine: anti-inflammatory diet, supplements and natural topical treatments.
- Yoga practice: breathe (pranayama), movement (asana), meditation, and mantra.
- Thank you: create a vision of gratitude transforming all expected results into tangible actions of being grateful.
- Measurement: Cancer progression screenings according to the ACOG schedule of Well-Women ages 40-65.
Your Own Healing Experiment
You are not alone in this! Every year in America there are 250,000 to a million women who receive a cervical dysplasia diagnosis. In Part 2 of the book, we walk through the decision-making process that facilitates the development of your own healing experiment. The foundation is to apply self-observation to understand your own Joy and make actionable decisions. Each step of the way I provide plenty of resources: my story as an example, references including materials lists, space for journaling your findings and thoughts and words of experience from women just like you who have faced the same choices.
Novak, Teresa Marie: - Teresa Marie Novak has been described as 'too kind for the industry' during her day job as an enterprise analyst in software engineering. Terrie was born in 1967 and the second adopted child of a loving and generous mid-west family. She grew up in Ft. Collins, Colorado and when she wasn't in school or band camp, she was exploring mountain campsites or her grandparents' 100-acre farm in Liberty, Nebraska. She studied engineering at CU Boulder and finished her undergraduate degree in physics at East Carolina University. In the 1990s Terrie began coding for an educational software company. With this start in tech industry, she made a career of helping people define their problems and desires. Terrie used industry standard methods in systems analysis thousands of times as she led others in creating and implementing processes and products that bring about change. Terrie learned of the healing power of meditation, yoga and the mind-body connection when she was introduced to the idea by a mental health councilor during treatment for panic attacks and chronic gut and back pain. After she tried naturopathic medicine to heal from HPV and cervical dysplasia and discovered the high statistics associated with over-treatment of LEEP in America, she knew her experience could become an opportunity to educate women about HPV treatment options and the power of choice-making. This is Terrie's first book, and corresponding courses on the application of the infinity flower transformation process are in development. Terrie self-identifies as solo-poly and has been in a polyamorous triad for over five years, which is a likely topic for an upcoming project.
