Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

She Got a Second Heartbeat — and a Second Chance at Life 💫 | Rooted in Wellness Podcast

2 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A woman diagnosed with stage-four cancer on Thanksgiving 2000 shares how her foundation in self-care helped her navigate treatment without fear. She discovered vitality and profound lessons in her darkest moment, and now offers hope to other patients facing similar diagnoses.

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Thanksgiving of 2000.

Stage four cancer.

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Most of us never really expect to face our own mortality at a very young age. And this is exactly while what you did. This was Thanksgiving of 2000. They came in my room and they said I had stage four cancer. I know it gives me chills. It's like just so hard believe. But I wasn't fearful in that moment. So by the time I was given this diagnosis of cancer, I had a lot of fundamental knowledge of how to really take good care of myself and then hire the doctors that could give me this conventional treatment. What I do try to deliver that message of hope to knowing with my patients that they, too, can attain their vitality during this very. What can be perceived as difficult time, and to look for these lessons because life was magnificent at a time when we're so scared of maybe dying, we are more alive than anyone could ever imagine.