How I Prepare for My Preventative Mastectomy: Manifestation & Mindset Hacks

Learn how I prepared for my preventative double mastectomy, structured my whole year around it so I can live my best life, removed any fear and anxiety around it and felt calm and grateful even at the operating table. I’m sharing the mindset hacks and manifestation practices that helped me reach that mental state so you can do the same. Tune into the episode below: Show Notes: * What’s a mastectomy and how it works * Why I’m having it and why now * Choosing to believe empowering thoughts and reprogramming your subconscious mind * How I used the power of gratitude to remove negative emotions around the surgery * The first time I was offered to have the surgery, and how I changed my mind a year later * The first steps I took once I knew when the surgery will be * Why I detached from the outcome * The main thing that created pressure for me and how I removed it * One big daily habit I changed to make life after surgery easier * How I turned my mastectomy journey into a personal growth game * What I did the night before surgery that made me close the old chapter of my life and start the new one Transcript Hello everyone and welcome back to the show. If you’ve been here before, you know this is not the usual topic I cover. I teach business but also mindset and personal development and manifestation and love how all these fit together to help us live our best life and serve our purpose. But today things will be a little different around here. It’s because I’m about to have a preventative double mastectomy – and by the time this gets published it will already be done – but I just really felt like sharing how my prep period was. I’m not gonna go into detail about the surgery, feel free to do your own research. But in a nutshell, it’s for those who have a family history of breast cancer and have tested positive for the BRCA gene. That means they have a gene mutation and are more likely to also have breast cancer at some point. The preventative surgery is what can bring the chance down to a minimum and it consists of removing the breast tissue and replacing it with implants. The sooner you do that, the better. Many women all over the world do it in their early 20s. I’m 30 now so that’s a good moment. There are a few different methods for this surgery such as under or over the chest muscle. Mine will be under which means it has to be stretched enough so the implant can be placed under it. There are 2 ways to do that too, one is with immediate reconstruction, which means you put the implant and are good to go. The other one, which is the most common one, is to first put an expander under the muscle and slowly fill it with liquid over the course of a few weeks or months until it reaches the size you want your breasts to be. Then you stay this way for a few more weeks after which you have a second surgery – the reconstruction. Then they replace the expanders with the implants. That’s it. Why I’m Having a Preventative Mastectomy Now But as you might guess, this changes many, many things about your lifestyle. The pros are that you won’t need to keep going for check-ups all the time and worry about having cancer.