![]() ![]() But when she learned a few months later that a mass in her right breast was stage IIIB triple negative breast cancer, she finally understood. Right here is where you begin.”Īt the time, Doby didn’t entirely grasp what the reiki master meant. It was during this session when a reiki master would stop to hover her hands over Doby’s sternum, pointing to the right side of her chest, and tell her, “Here. ![]() Feeling as though she had nothing left to lose at that point, Doby booked an appointment for the healing energy technique. ![]() “I found myself caught in the space between doubting my relationship with my body and knowing something wasn’t right.”ĭoby’s grandmother eventually suggested a reiki and craniosacral therapy session. “All of my questions continued to be met with pushback about my young age, healthy appearance and mental health,” says the 36-year-old Dallas-based storyteller and artist. Neurologists, family physicians, naturopaths, specialists-it didn’t matter what field Doby could anticipate a health care professional discounting her lived experience as she searched for answers relating to her well-being. In the two years leading up to her cancer diagnosis, time and time again, Danielle Doby listened to these dismissive sentences slip through doctors’ mouths. Writer and artist Danielle Doby shares the lessons she’s learned about gratitude, grief and the infinite influence of cancer. ![]()
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