Beating the Odds: A Cancer Survivor’s Guide to Holistic Healing

Holistic healing may have a mixed reputation in the cancer community, but you won't get that reaction from Georges Cordoba. The 12-year cancer survivor credits a regime of holistic practices combined with the power of faith for helping him beat the odds. His story is not just about surviving; it's about thriving and discovering a new purpose in life. Show Notes | Transcript "I'm going to be the first family member from my Greek side that survives this thing." - Georges Cordoba In this transformative conversation, Georges and I explore how understanding your physical health, tapping into divine guidance, and serving others can open doors to healing and abundance you never thought possible. Georges shares his incredible journey from a conventional cancer treatment approach to embracing holistic healing methods. Through Georges' experiences, we uncover valuable insights that can benefit anyone, regardless of their current health status or life circumstances. Discover how to: Recognize the signs that it's time for a significant life change Implement holistic practices into your daily routine without feeling overwhelmed Harness the power of forgiveness to release emotional burdens and promote healing Key insights include: The crucial link between emotional well-being and physical health Why maintaining a balanced pH in your body is essential for overall wellness The importance of self-love and self-care in your healing journey How to approach nutrition holistically, considering not just what you eat, but how you eat Whether you're facing health challenges, seeking to prevent future issues, or simply looking to enhance your overall well-being, this episode offers practical wisdom and inspiration to help you take charge of your health and live your best life. Tune in to discover how you can create your own miracles through the power of holistic living! 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Well, tune in and stay tuned, I should say, because I've got a transformative conversation coming up that's going to reveal how understanding your physical health, tapping into divine guidance and serving others can unlock a level of healing and abundance you never thought possible. But first, I do want to welcome you to Live Love Engage, especially if this is your first time. I am Gloria Grace, founder of Align to Shine Academy, and I work with spiritually minded women entrepreneurs to help them break free from self doubt and really step into their highest potential. And I'm really looking forward to this conversation today. Our guest is Georges Cordoba and He is a 12 year cancer survivor and best selling author of Beating the Odds about his holistic journey to conquer advanced cancer. And he's also a holistic health and life coach, functional nutritionist, Reiki teacher, hypnotherapist, among other things. And his mission is to help people live their best lives. And I know that's what we're all about here on this program is to, you know, live fully. And so let's, without further ado, let me bring him on so we can start, start this conversation. So welcome Coach Georges to Live Love Engage. Thank you. Thank you, Gloria, for inviting me. I'm honored to be in your show and, and share some interesting stuff that applies to everyone, whether you're rich or poor and whatever your ethnicity, this, this disease, cancer doesn't care. But I'm very excited to share with you. Well, I am too. And you know, I thought we'd start out for talking about one of the things you, you say is that, you know, everyone has mountains to move on during their life journey. And yours certainly your deepest mountain was overcoming cancer by, you know, transitioning from conventional treatment. You did go down that route to a more holistic approach. So I thought we'd stop by checking out what led you to make this significant shift and what were the initial steps you took. Yeah, you know, I like to real, real quick you have a better understanding of the answer to your question. I have to share with you guys because your mindset is very important. But I, I have to share with you guys about my journey since I was a youngster, 4 years old. I'm half Greek and my parents from my Greek family migrated after World War II to South America, Venezuela, which is where I'm from. And my, my father's family migrated to Venezuela, from Madrid, Spain to Venezuela and the two, the two families met there. But what I want to share is on my Greek side of the family, when I looked at the, basically the landscape of my family, I really felt that I was going to be doomed because at the age of four, I saw my grandfather lose his life of cancer. Cancer. Then maybe six or seven, two. Between the age of six and 10, two of my grandmother's sisters passed of cancer. Then my godfather, which was also a family from Greece that migrated to Venezuela, my, my mother's cousin, he was my godfather, he passed away from cancer. So far you look, you, you see the pattern later on, another family member, another brother of my grandfather, then my uncle, My mother's brother, a 55, died of cancer. And three weeks before I was diagnosed, my mother, my dear mother, pass of cancer. So I grew up basically with the belief that cancer would take anybody's life. And then here I am, I get diagnosed. At the time, our blessing, our five kids were very young, from 7 to 13. Pair of twins that were 10 years old at the time as well. And that created a lot more anxiety on me. But at the end of the day, after the emotional roller coaster that anybody that has been diagnosed with cancer, we all go through the same thing with humans. The fear, you know, denial, angry. Why me? I'm a good person, you know, I, I, I do great. And in the city, we go to church, we do stuff in missionary work. Why me? But I, when, when all that stuff went away, took about a week, I, I kind of sat down and I said, you know what? I'm going to be the first, the first family member from a Greek side that survives this thing. And I went on my journey. And to get back to your question, I was the first thing, and this is important to know, as a hypnotherapist, I could tell you there's 13 rules of the mind. But one of the rules of the mind is that the mind goes to what is familiar. And in the west, what is familiar when you get a chronic disease. But I say cancer, which is my experience, everybody goes to an oncologist. There's no question. Everybody just finds an oncology or look for, looks for referrals and stuff. And then that's the first thing we do. We go to an oncologist, which by the way, in many cases becomes your, let's say, your guy, quote, unquote. Whatever they say you do, you give all your power. We give all our power to this person, this man or woman. Yeah. And that's what I did. I mean, I Have two doctors in my family. One is a medical doctor, they're married. One is my. My daughter's. They're both my. My daughter's godparents. And, And. And Stefano, he's. He's a surgeon, and. And down there in. In south and southeast Florida, in Miami. And so, you know, when. When I started this thing, it was right away surgery. I had my first craniotomy because it showed up in my. The top of my scalp. And they had to really get in there and take it out. And then right away I went to the first treatment, let's say period, four months, and. Which was really crazy. I just. I couldn't really take it. They were trying interferon, which is something that really worked for. They had it for people with hepatitis, but it. It so happened. You know, medicine is trial and error. They found out that this person also had melanoma, which is what I had. And he worked. So. So I started four months into this, after one surgery, this. This treatment, the. Oh, and by the way, on my first craniotomy, actually, right away, Right away, something presented on my. On my right ear. And so they biopsy, and it was a. A positive lymph node. So they decided to. To do a. Something they call the. It's. It's a sentinel. Sentinel biopsy to see where this liquid would drain. And it was actually draining to my right. So they decided to open me up. That was my second surgery, by the way. I went through 10 years of surgeries and 10 surgeries. Thank God for the surgeries because it's not that I'm against medical, especially the neurosurgeon. He had to raped me four times, five times. The first one was not as bad, but so my second surgery, they removed 23 lymph nodes from my. From my neck, from my. From this side of my. My. From the right side, the right neck. But there were three of those, 23 that they could not get to. So what. What happened there is that they had to sacrifice a muscle in my. In my neck to take those three out. And they turned out to be the three that were positive. Of course, that was good that they were aggressive today. This is really uncomfortable sometimes when I shave and all this stuff, you know, years later. So, you know, so that. That's. That was the pattern. Your question? It was okay. Surgery, treatment, remission, quote, unquote. I don't like that word. Yeah, Recurrence, surgery, treatment, remission for almost eight years, Gloria, on year eight, that was. I was going to go into my....