Rebeccah Silence was seven months pregnant when she got a cancer diagnosis. She frames it as a choice: fight to live or live to die. She chose to fight, drawing on her background in therapy and coaching to navigate the illness as an opportunity for deeper healing.
For anybody out there with a hard diagnosis right now, you only have one of two choices. You're going to fight to live or you're going to live to die.
What I'd like to talk about is about trying to maintain your mental wellness when you just found out that you have cancer.
I'll never forget the Tuesday I got the diagnosis and I'm 7 months pregnant. And living my dream. You know, you and I did a radio show. We've been doing this like 15 years. It's insane. That, that radio show changed my life. Within 2 weeks, I had a 6-month waitlist, right? And we're selling out every woman's retreat, and I'm getting married again, and then I get pregnant again. And the dream, the way I had visualized it, everything, boxes checked. And I thought I was going to have a life of smooth sailing and that all of the trauma of my past doing all the work to emotionally heal. Like, I really thought those days were behind me. And then I get a diagnosis and I have no family history and I had to trust myself and my fight to fight to live. And I said, like, I'm gonna burn the option that I'm gonna die. And I am very well aware that I might die, but I am gonna live like I'm gonna live. And I want you to live like you're gonna live. And I remember hearing what I call God's voice say to me, okay, Rebeccah, so who are you gonna be now? Are you going to be who you say you are now? And my God, the answer was yes. Like, I am going to be the emotionally healed me. I'm going to practice what I've built and created with the practice of emotional healing, bringing the best of therapy and the best of what I know about coaching. And, and I'm going to live as who I said I was, and I am going to live like I'm going to live. And what you need to know is cancer isn't more powerful than you, okay? Nothing outside of you is more powerful than you. But cancer is not more powerful than you. And it is a really hard, gut-wrenching diagnosis and it is going to change your life. But it can have you more healed, more free, more you than you've ever been, with permission to have the right priorities. You either are choosing to live like you're going to live or live like you're going to die. And I want you living and If you don't have this book yet, Coming Back to Life, you gotta get it right now. Take in the power of who you can become in the face of this. This isn't the moment that defines you or defeats you unless you let it, and you don't have to.
