Yes I Survived Cancer but That doesn't Define Me, by Debra Jarvis (Jimena López)

Yes I Survived Cancer but That doesn't Define Me, by Debra Jarvis

Debra Jarvis is a women who is a chaplain in a hospital for 30 years. In particular, she worked in a cancer center. In 2005, Debra’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, five days later Debra also have it. She was treated in the same hospital where she worked and she started making treatments.

Debra learned that the cancer is not only medicine, most dependent on the feelings and the faith. And discover that the objects are the least important in life. She makes clear that medicine has done a great job and that is wondeful.

Debra says to ignore who speaks of how we feel, we must paying attention to who speaks from his own experience. Because our experience only can we know.

She tells the story of a woman who treated in the past , she saw her one or two years later and excited they started talking. She told her that she had been horrible and how hard it had been. Debra was limited to hug and said, "Get down off your cross" and she said from the voice of experience.

She concluded the speech by saying: ‘’ being in the tomb means doing our own deep inner work around our wounds and allowing ourselves to be healed. We have to let that crucified self die so that a new self, a truer self, is born. We have to let that old story go so that a new story, a truer story, can be told. Claim your experience. Don't let it claim you.’’

Jimena López de Lamadrid