Ep. 34 - From Stage Four to Cancer Free: One Woman's Path Through Fear, Faith, and Healing

What does it take to face stage four cancer twice and come out the other side not just surviving, but fully alive?Pam Feinberg-Rivkin was re-diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2020, this time with a spot on her liver, and just a year after losing a brother to cancer. She had already done the chemotherapy, the radiation, the surgery. But she knew something else was needed, something the oncology appointments couldn't offer. That search led her to Dianne Porchia, a spiritual therapist and holistic practitioner who Pam found through the documentary Heal while sitting alone on the Fourth of July, terrified and looking for a way through.Dianne's path into this work is its own story worth hearing. A divorce, a massage session that opened an unexpected floodgate of emotion, a master's degree in spiritual psychology, and years of working with law students, cancer patients, and anyone carrying wounds they hadn't yet found words for. Her approach moves beyond the thinking mind into what she calls the deeper levels of the heart, the soul, and the subconscious, where the inner saboteur lives and where real shifts begin. She speaks honestly about trauma, the inner child, and why so many people with serious illness share a pattern of giving endlessly to others while quietly neglecting themselves.Five and a half years later, Pam is cancer-free. She travels, she volunteers with her therapy dog at a cancer center, she created this podcast. Dianne now tends a regenerative eco-farm in Oregon and continues seeing clients from around the world. Their conversation is a quiet testament to what becomes possible when Western medicine and inner healing work are allowed to exist side by side. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is admit that treatment alone was never going to be enough.Contact Pam Feinberg-Rivkin:Facebook: @FeinbergCareInstagram: @FeinbergCareLinkedIn: Feinberg Consulting IncYouTube: @FeinbergConsulting8059