Adeline Pasteur, through her profession as a communicator, is used to playing with words.
She made her cancer a strength by listening to what her body had to transmit to her as a message through this ordeal. She published My cancer, what luck! by Editions Mama éditions.
Metro, work, sleep. Our hectic daily lives where we want to live beyond our limits, where we don’t want to miss anything that life offers us, where we talk about surpassing ourselves, where we aim for perfection , where information is available at any time and any place and travels at lightning speed, sometimes pushes us to “always more”.
This is undoubtedly what made Adeline Pasteur ignore for a long time the small symptoms that presented themselves to her one after the other like recurring migraines, barely seeing them because her professional life as a business manager was so full. , leaving him no space to listen to himself.
A cancer to free yourself from everything that had to be freed
Undoubtedly feeling unconsciously that she was reaching a turning point in her life, shortly before the announcement of her triple negative breast cancer – one of the most aggressive – she, who had been self-employed for 15 years, had just be hired as an employee.
Fate overwhelmed her because her mother and grandmother had died of this illness.
She then started doing what she does best: writing, putting words that make sense, on her blog Saint Soutif. Beyond the chest pun, she made her cancer her priesthood, giving her all the interest she had previously lacked for herself. On this blog we feel throughout the articles, humor takes an assumed place, and words chase away evils.
In fact, this forced stop questioned her a lot. Her schedule no longer being punctuated by medical terms, she finally took the time to question the smallest detail of her life. This introspection opened her eyes to the fact of having forgotten herself to the detriment of others. This cancer became an end – that of her previous life – but above all also, a beginning – that of a new life more in accordance with who she really is –, beyond any social or family injunction. Because she could almost say that the deaths of her mother and her grandmother are also one of the axes which pushed her to question what no longer had any place in her lineage.
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Thus, she had the impression of becoming an actor of her remission, rather than enduring it.
« I had the impression that by getting rid of what no longer had meaning for me, I was removing all the weight of my cancer. I imagined that all this sorting in my life left more room for the light that would lead me toward healing. This whole journey was for me like a breadcrumb trail that I visualized by my side, reminding me where I came from and making me aware of my real needs. I have freed myself from many inner weights and yet I have never felt as rich as I do today. I was finally able to connect to the very essence of my soul. », explains with a smile, Adeline Pasteur.
But make no mistake, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were the basis of his recovery. She also considers the treatments as valuable help so that for once, she does not have the mental burden of succeeding on her own, alone. Alternative therapies complemented the usual protocol and helped her transcend what was happening to her.
A book to heal and restore Faith
She, who juggles with words on a daily basis to enhance her clients’ communication, wanted to go further than the blog.
« I wanted to leave an even more lasting mark. The book has something comforting with its pages that we turn one after the other, something also very symbolic in the face of what I experienced. I wrote it to move forward and continue my mental and physical healing, to evolve further, but also for my loved ones, and especially for all the people like me who will experience this tsunami in order to inspire them to make it a force ».
My cancer, how lucky! is published by Mama éditions.
Early readers were often intrigued by seeing his cancer as an opportunity. Adeline Pasteur recalls that this is how she chose to live it, she who had made non-choices all her life.
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