I am excited about the book that I just finished reading, Radical Remission by Kelly A. Turner, PH.D. She put together a smashing collection of good solid knowledge about healing and health. It was a ten year Camino for her completing this. Thank you Dr Turner and friends!

Haven’t been this excited about reading material since receiving the Pilgrim Beatitudes back in 2014. They both are an awakening, a springboard and an organizing structure. We tackled the ten Beatitudes one at a time back then to squeeze every last drop out of them and I intend to write about the “common factors” in a similar fashion.

The “common factors” are factors that kept coming up in interviews with a thousand cancer patients that beat the odds and somehow were cured of their cancer. It is a very precious list, a distillation. What did these precious few people do to place them in this position.

It may take a few days of introduction before we actually tackle the list but we will get started. This information, these ideas or notions are valuable to people with disease and to healthy folks. It just seems like a good way to tackle life in general. If we can look at cancer as imbalance, this is balance.

Oh, another half hour just appeared in my schedule here so I will keep going. Last night I took the time to triage the list for my own clarity. In other words I broke the nine factors down into three groups. The first group were the ones that I thought I was doing a great job at and in someways better than the book described. OK, that was easy to find those three. Then I grouped three that I was doing but that could use improvement. And lastly was a group that I really needed help on to get sorted out and going.

I have to put all this in my own words as it occurs and applies to me. This is how I see it and how I wrestle with it. You and yours are different people with different backgrounds and different needs but the factors are common factors. The topics are important to all of us. People that got this particular Darwin Award by surviving and possibly thriving in spite of cancer used these notions to help them get there. So listen up!

Oh, this is going to be fun, not easy but fun. We are going to squeeze juice out of these notions but also out of me as we go. And you might ask why am I doing this? Why be so vulnerable in front of the world? Well, that is because one of the factors that I rated myself highly on is “Embracing Social Support”.
You dear readers and friends are a large part of my social support and we have been doing a great job so far and this is furthering that. So, off we go…

Walking in a few moments on this beautiful morn. The light has a reddish cast from the wildfire smoke that has settled into the Puget Sound basin. It is not oppressive but there. Embracing social support loves, Felipe.