About

So who is Marin? I am a passionate, feisty, quirky, tigress-mother to the best Child in the world, animal-loving, vegetarian yogini and mindfulness meditation practitioner. I am also an 11-year survivor of breast cancer and a new survivor of head and neck cancer, specifically, oropharyngeal.  The latter experience is what has given birth to this blog. In it, I hope to recount my emotional and spiritual growth as I endeavor to achieve healing from the Evil that has arrived. I know that in order to do this, I must listen to and respond to it’s message, that is, to come to know the lesson that cancer has come to teach me. I am convinced that only by deeply listening, releasing all that blocks my hearing and my ability to respond, and then by taking concrete action, will I find my Truth and, thus, my physical, emotional and spiritual health. 

This is the toughest assignment I’ve ever been given, but it has come at this time in my life because I am ready for it. There is a yogic saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” In my case, at this moment in time, cancer has become my teacher. I will learn what it has to teach me and then invite it to leave me alone…for good.