My life has not always been easy, but these last few years have been the hardest and yet, the most telling.

My spouse and I had just married August of 2015 and five months later his mother had passed away. Later that same year I found out I had Colon Cancer. In October of 2016, I was diagnosed with Stage 3B Colon Cancer. For years I had been not well but felt doctors were not listening to me. We moved to Colorado in May of 2015 and I was thankful I finally found a doctor who would hear me. I had my whole sigmoid removed and began chemotherapy. I was in and out of the hospital with various side effects and complications. In September of 2017 I was finally pronounced in remission. The doctors removed my Chemoport and the following year I did all I could to get healthy again.

My spouse and I celebrated by going to France in August of  2018. We were gone for nearly a whole month. In September after we were back, I did not feel well. I assumed it was my body getting adjusted to the food again. Then I got worse. I saw doctors but nothing was conclusive.

In February 2019, we found out my cancer had metastasized into my ovaries and thus my cancer was back.

We are a holistic, crunchy, health nut kind of couple. While I was in my first year of dealing with cancer I took a variety of herbs, kratom, MMJ, and a variety of supplements we found to be useful against cancer. The second time around was no different.

The other thing I did and found out was about the Mind-Body connection to my specific cancers. Colon cancer is supposedly present because the person is often a giver, not a receiver, and overachiever, and does too much. Yep, me to a capital T. Cancer in the ovaries has to do with sexual trauma and without going too in-depth into that, I will just say I concur.

My life has not been easy at all. Cancer was just a part of that. In my book Falling Into Fabulous: A Phoenix Rising I speak about my trauma and trials and my first cancer.

Cancer people tend to talk to other cancer people. I found out through talking to others that many started living their life differently. They started seeing their life’s mission or purpose more clearly.

The first time I recovered from cancer, I ate differently, I worked hard in my Toastmasters life to achieve my goals and I made it a point to speak to my family more often. I did not see my life alter in any drastic way.

Having cancer twice and beating it twice changed all that. Drastically.

I meditated more and became highly intune with myself and my body.

I sought out why I would have cancer twice and survive. I felt there had to be more to life than just to eat better.

I joined Toastmasters a few years ago to become a better speaker but until all of this happened I wasn’t really sure why. Now I knew. My mission was clear.

My mission was to Leave a Legacy of Love. To help others be strong in the face of adversity. To share my trials with others and share my stories of my life of my past and of my cancer journey. To uplift and inspire others in any way I can.

I do this by monthly putting together daily inspirations or affirmations that I post on Instagram and Facebook and Patreon. Each month I have a different theme that I meditate and pray about before writing the prompts. I put them together in Canva and then share them through Buffer.com to my social media.

I also leave a legacy of love by a program I am working on called Create a Life You Fall in Love With. So many people say to me

“How do you shine so bright when your world has been so dark? How do you live a life so rich and full no matter what?”

I create it. Now I help others create it as well.

Both of these programs are free. I do have a Patreon if anyone desires to support me. The more support I am able to receive of course the more I can do, but for me, it is not about the money, it’s about the message.

The idea is not to live forever but to leave a legacy on the world that will

If you would like to follow My Legacy of love Project

https://www.patreon.com/mylegacyoflove

If you would like to learn more about how to Create a life You Fall in Love With

https://www.facebook.com/groups/createalifeyoufallinlovewith/

~XoXo Trisha Trixie Hunter-Merrill