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Crazy Sexy Cancer

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Even though I'm a professional writer, words fail me. I'm sitting here at my computer with my fingers poised in touch-type position waiting for one gigantic capsule of brilliance to come out. Nope, still nothing. So I'll make my rave less-than-brilliant. Even though her DVD is genius!

Three words: Get this DVD. Six words: Even if you don't have cancer.

Kris Carr has done the miraculous: She has turned the whole conversation of cancer and healing and empowerment, and creative control upside down to invite all of us to look at our lives and even mortality through brave, fresh, fun, authentic eyes. She's a delight to watch; informative to listen to; an inspiration to emulate. She may actually make me do the unthinkable: shove kale down the feed tube of my juicer and give it a try. (Needless to say, I'm a juicing newbie; but her influence is bringing this Chocolate girl around.)

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I saw this on TLC, and it's a beyond charming look at what would normally be a private struggle with cancer.
Kris Carr is an amazing inspirational young lady and she inspired me so much to live my days to a much more full extent!
She has an open heart that she is sharing with the world.
I have purchased a few extra copies for friends now as I don't want to give up my own.

I'm not sure why her name is not FIRST on her DVD (lists Rodney Yee who stars in an extras chapter)!

Here is a wonderful exploration of young folks with cancer. Her worldwide search for cures and potent diets are inspiring. I work for hospice and plan to reccommend this video and companion book to my patients. The extras on the video include yoga for healing and vegetarian diet help. I think that this is a very important video for most people as nowdays we all now people struggling with this disease. Also for those of us who want to avoid cancer, there are plenty of tips for us.

I was diagnosed with Colon Cancer in May 2008. Had surgery, found out the cancer spread to my lymph nodes and liver. I was scared to death. My friend Marganne kept telling me about the Craze Sexy Cancer lady she was on TV, and wanted me to read the books. It took me months to find the courage to start reading about cancer. I thought the more I read, the more I researched, the more I'd see that I was in big trouble. Well, I finally got the books six months later, and my life has been turned around. So many things clicked with me, that I can say, WoW, Kris totally gets it.

since ready her book, a had to make some changes to Team Diane!! I let go of my oncologist at my primary hospital, whose bedside manner didn't jive with me, and now see a second year oncology Fellow, who works under the first oncologist. He is so patient with me, hugs me when I need it, and is not afraid to hold my hand and look me in the eye and explain what is happening to me. As it turns out my new Main Man at Penn State Hershey Medical Center was in residency with one of my two oncologist I see at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. My Team calls each other with ease to discuss my case. Thank you Chris for giving me the strength to let go of a very, highly trained oncologist, for someone who is also highly trained and educated, genuinely cares about me.

This is just one of the many truly life changes experiences that have come out of the CRAZY, SEXY, CANCER series. I've got my GalPal's, who comes to chemo with me, and turn it into a party. I try to turn everything I do into a little party.

Sincerely,
ryderone@verizon.net

Every time I see it I pick up another gem. This documentary isn't about cancer, it's about wellness, about living. We ALL need to step back and examine how we individually and collectively are living our lives. And how that is impacting the health of our species. Kris had an in-your-face wake up call. What is going to take for YOU to start truly taking care of yourself? I recommend starting with this DVD! Absolutely inspiring!

I think this documentary is fantastic. This film does a wonderful job of documenting Kris Carr's journey through varying emotions dealing with cancer. I think that's one of the greatest attributes of this film, it shows the good and the bad, over a spectrum of issues related to finding out you have cancer. To even the question of "who wants to date a cancer chick?" Very well done, and entertaining. A great film for anyone dealing with cancer, or interested in alternative healing.

Bravo!

I happened to stumble upon this when it was airing on Lifetime a few years ago. I was lying on the couch, channel surfing, eating a bag of Cheetos. I'm so glad I found it. Kris is so charismatic and enjoyable to watch. Every woman should watch this film. 2 years later, I was still thinking about the movie quite a bit and couldn't help purchasing the DVD. I watch it every few months now. This movie has led me to eat better, travel more and enjoy life. Life is too short to waste it sitting on the couch eating Cheetos!

As someone currently fighting cancer, I had been looking for almost anything in regards to fighting cancer on your own terms and being pro-active in your health care. I would go for treatment everyday (and still do) but when I leave the hospital and go home, nothing I did at home would be beneficial towards fighting cancer. I felt like my doctors were doing the work but that I wasn't putting in any additional effort, just going with the flow. I wanted a resource that was also geared towards young adults battling cancer. This documentary is about a young adults' cancer journey and not just sitting by as doctors performed tests on her, but by also being pro-active and taking an important role in her healing journey, through nutrition and eastern forms of healing. This documentary has helped to inspire me to make a change in my own life, outside of cancer, so that it may benefit me and change the course that my disease has taken. This documentary for me is one step to seeing my healing journey in a whole new light and to helping me become more aware of what I can do to help myself. I highly recommend this movie for cancer fighters, survivors, caregivers, friends and family of those with cancer and anyone who wants to be able to better understand the opportunities that are available for us to become active participants in our health.

This is a great resource for those who are themselves or with loved ones facing cancer. This documentary explores the choices and journey of a young woman with a cancer diagnoses. She decides to open up to answers beyond the convention offerings of the medical industry, and basically ends up doing well by following a whole foods diet incorporating living foods and regenerative juices- which are the foundation and bedrock of traditional naturopathy, and offered to anyone through numerous seminars as well as centers and therapeutic approaches such as Hippocrates Institute, Ann Wigmore training, Gerson therapies- its basically all the same- to support your immune system and general balance , while embarking on tissue cleansing through a regenerative whole foods plant based diet.

There is one scene where she visits an Expo, which lumps obviously well- trained practitioners in with people selling crystals and gimmicks - and that sends the wrong message to the mainstream- there are thousands of serious , well trained, highly experienced and educated healing arts practitioners who offer and facilitate methods that work, so I was sad to see them portrayed with clowns and crystal hawkers- it sends the wrong message, and misinforms - although those expo's still exist, there are better ways to inform ourselves about traditional naturopathy, living foods healing diets, and the professional benefits of bodywork therapies, herbs, hydrotherapy, and natural medicine.

Yet the overall inspirational message of this story cannot be beat! This is an important, utterly life changing topic and deserves full exploration, not the passive victimization so common in our culture.

I also highly recommend the perspectives offered in "Healing Cancer" (Mike Anderson), "Dying to Have Known", and "The Beautiful Truth". Although everyone is free to make their own choices, thankfully we are learning that there is a "cancer industry" with an agenda to fear-monger people into making quick and radical choices which may destroy their innate healing capacities rather than support them. While this is not the message of this particular film, one can perhaps read between the lines, as it were- Kris avoids these "treatments" and ends up being the one with vitality, vigor, and strength to run, power walk, do yoga, and engage in creating her life without interruption beyond the initial stages in 2003 of inquiry. I wonder - would her doctors have said what they did had they not been on film, under those circumstances? Or would they have pressured her into debilitating chemo, surgery, radiation, and poo-pooed juicing and live foods as the doctors in the above mentioned films did ?? I recommend seeing them all- easy enough to do with media available from amazon via digital download/pay per view.

Also recommended is (book) The Cancer Industry- The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment. The truth shall set you free.

I'd heard so much about this book on the 'cancer support' blogs that I wanted to read it and was so pleased to get it at such a good price. The attitude is very uplifting for a person experiencing cancer, as long as you can accept the author's 'non-religious' way of dealing with her diagnosis. Some readers with cancer may not be able to accept a person who didn't have to have surgery, chemo or radiation as representative of their own cancer journeys, and may not relate to this author. Most of the author's avant garde diet and bowel cleansing routines to hold her cancer at bay were over the top for me, but if you have an open mind and are able to read around her ideas you disagree with, there are many good tips and life-affirming philosophies that make this a worthwhile read for a cancer patient/survivor.