LOVE ON YOUR TATAS

Wear your pink to remember your mindset!

That’s right! I said tatas. Okay, for technical purposes from here on out I will refer to them as breasts. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I went pink. Yes, it was something fun I had been wanting to try for awhile, though doing it for something bigger than myself was what finally got me to go for it. That and because there has been a lot of illness and un-wellness popping up around me lately. Signs have been pointing to the need for not only self-care, but self-observance and intention around MINDSET.

My paternal grandmother, Ruby, died of breast cancer when I was four years old. The only vivid memory I have of her was lying with her in her hospital bed comforting her. When I reached a certain age and started going to gynecologist, it was made clear to me that I was at a high risk because of my grandmother. Not knowing what to do with that information, I kindly tucked it away and said I will deal with it when I am older. Well, here I am. Older. I turn 35 this year, and for a woman with my kind of family history, if I want to be on the safe side, it is about that time for me to start getting mammograms. But let’s back it up for moment. At age 23 I learned a valuable lesson about how to talk to my breasts. Yep. Talk to them. This has everything to do with MINDSET and the work that I now love doing with my clients.

In 2008 I studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. It was my senior year, an unorthodox time to leave my university, when most my friends were enjoying the fruit of their four-year labor by celebrating and partying. But I’ve always done things my way, and that usually ends up being the unorthodox way.

Anyway, I found myself at a beautiful homestay in Oaxaca city. The woman I was staying with was renting out one of her rooms to a middle-aged Canadian woman named Denise. Denise was magical. We became fast friends and she took me under her wing, showing and telling me the ins and outs of Oaxaca, what to do, where to go, what not to eat, where not to go.

The most valuable lesson of all that I learned from Denise was about my relationship to my body. She was a naturopath and all about holistic, preventative care. Here’s what she told me to do:

“Massage your breasts everyday talk to them.”

“ Talk to them? I get massaging them, but talking?”

“Oh yes! It’s all about what you think and how you speak to yourself.”

I was reminded of another teacher and mentor along the way that said, “Be careful what you tell yourself. Every cell is listening.” So, if we are negatively speaking to ourselves or at ourselves, our cells are listening and taking note. Not only that, our unconscious mind, which is highly suggestive, is listening as well. This is how disease can grow. This negative energy that turns into “negative tissue.” Make sense?

So my loves, massage your breasts and yes, tell them how much you love them, how beautiful and Awesome they are! Thank them for being healthy. Negative self-talk becomes negative belief becomes “negative tissue” becomes what I will not even say. You get the picture. Do it in the shower, do it with body lotion, have your partner do it to you (bonus erotic perk). Just make sure you do it! And of course, eat healthy, get exercise, find ways to destress like meditation, and get your check ups when it’s time.

With love and light and healthy tatas! -Natalie