Can learning to breathe properly cure your anxiety?

I did promise this newsletter wouldn’t be about cancer. Who wants to read about cancer all the time? Not me, and I’m cancer’s target audience.

But I wanted to explain why I’ve been feeling so anxious lately, and why I’ve veered from manifesting and mushrooms to anti-anxiety tips.

Do you like stats? I do usually, but here are some I didn’t love to hear.
If you’ve had successful treatment for triple negative breast cancer, there’s a 40% chance it’ll be back within 2-5 years. The doctor said, because mine was grade 3 (the fastest-growing type), and there were two separate tumours, and it had spread to the lymph nodes and, even after 20 weeks of chemo, the post-surgery pathology report showed evidence of cancer in my breast and lymph nodes… sheesh. Those odds have gone from 40/60 to probably about 60/40 in cancer’s favour.

But!

I had eight cycles of Capecitabine as adjuvant chemotherapy, which has been shown to reduce the risk of recurrence. Maybe that brings it back down to the original 40/60…