When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 my world flipped upside-down. I went from being immersed in the day to day opportunities and challenges of life…family, career, friends…to having to contemplate my mortality. The view of my potential end seemed far too close and so my reality shifted to fighting a battle to survive. It wasn’t just altering course – get sick, recover, resume, it was a seismic shift that completely changed my life.
Anyone who has had cancer knows the uphill battle we fight from the moment of diagnosis and through the long months, and years of treatment. My final surgery was in 2017. Radiation, chemo, major abdominal surgery, infections, more surgery…and then adjusting to life afterwards. Nothing was or is the same. Yet life is deeper, sweeter and layered with more meaning now.
When I was diagnosed I did the only thing I know. I had been a professional writer since graduating from university, and so I wrote about my cancer years with such motivation. It made sense to record the biggest challenge in my life to date. It wasn’t until I lost my sister Jane to the same (familial) cancer that I had, in the same place, but at a later stage, that I put my pen down. I survived and she didn’t. We had gone through the same treatment and I had made it through…she had fought courageously for six long years. She was there for me every step of the way, and I for her…and then she was gone. It would be three years before I had the heart to write again.
Early last year, I began to look at my unfinished manuscript “Revealing Light”. So much had happened since 2015. I had fully immersed myself in my clairvoyant and psychic abilities which had only grown stronger with the cancer. I had grieved for my sister, and for myself…I didn’t want our story…the cancer story, to be lost and so I began to write again, documenting my spiritual evolution post cancer. I delved into survivor’s guilt, the astrology at the time of my illness and looked at the tarot through a physical and spiritual lens. I wrote about connecting with nature and animals, and the richness of living spiritually. Whatever physical abilities that had been impaired as a result of cancer, my spiritual abilities had soared and my writing documented the process from its beginning onwards.
After finally finishing the manuscript…it took me seven years…I sent it off to UK publishers Collective Ink and was offered a traditional publishing contract. The book, Revealing Light – How cancer illuminated my divine blueprint will be published in January 2025. Pre orders are now available through Amazon UK who distribute worldwide and I will be talking more about how cancer reawakened my dormant psychic and clairvoyant abilities over the coming months. More information on the book is here: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/revealing-light-cancer-illuminated-divine-blueprint
This book is about the gifts received through adversity, about learning in the fiery waters of a spiritual baptism that many cancer warriors experience and how crisis can shatter existence to reveal divine purpose in life – a blueprint we agreed to before we were born.”
Maryann, Revealing Light…