Suzy Griswold – Survivor and founder of HealingStrong cancer support groups
Chris Beat Cancer: Heal With Nutrition & Natural Therapies
Chris Wark
4.7 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today I have the great pleasure of sharing an interview I did with my dear friend and fellow cancer survivor Suzy Griswold, founder of HealingStrong.
Suzy was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2009. Three months after surgery and radiotherapy, the cancer spread to her lymph nodes. When chemotherapy was recommended, Suzy began investigating alternative, natural and non-toxic cancer treatments and discovered the Gerson Therapy and the power of radical life change and faith. Eighteen months later she was cancer free!
In September 2013, with a team of big-hearted volunteers, Suzy organized a faith-based holistic cancer conference called HealingStrong, and asked me to speak and emcee it, which was an incredible honor. The conference was a really special gathering of like-minded survivors and thrivers that birthed a big idea.
Three months later, Suzy started a HealingStrong a free monthly support group in the Atlanta area with a focus on education, encouragement and sharing empowering resources to help patients take control of their life and health.
The HealingStrong support group model is about rebuilding the body, restoring the soul, and renewing the spirit. In the last seven years, HealingStrong groups have been founded in hundreds of cities and is now the largest network of holistic cancer support groups in the world. And it’s still free.
I’m a huge fan and supporter of HealingStrong and Suzy Griswold is one of my favorite people in the world. She is a truly an amazing person with some wonderful wisdom to share. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Chris and today I am interviewing my very special sweet friend, Susie Griswold. |
| 0:06.5 | Susie is a holistic cancer survivor with a remarkable healing story and also the founder of Healing Strong, |
| 0:14.3 | which is a nonprofit that I am a huge proponent of that connects cancer patients with each other in local support groups |
| 0:24.9 | to get love and support and encouragement and resources to help them survive and thrive. |
| 0:30.6 | And so she is a remarkable, incredible human being and such a sweet person. |
| 0:38.3 | And anyway, just glad to be with you, Susie. |
| 0:40.9 | Glad to see you. |
| 0:41.5 | How are you? |
| 0:42.5 | Great. |
| 0:43.5 | So good to see you too, Chris. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | So why don't we start with your cancer story and then we'll talk about healing strong too. |
| 0:51.3 | Okay. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, in 2009, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. |
| 0:57.1 | I was actually headed into surgery for a complete radical hysterectomy at the time. |
| 1:02.9 | And they found this little lung or this little nodule. |
| 1:05.9 | And the doctor said, you really need to get it checked out. |
| 1:08.9 | We did the biopsy. And they said, definitely you need to get it checked out. We did, you know, did the biopsy. And they said, |
| 1:13.6 | definitely you need to have it removed. So this took precedence. And I'm so glad it did because they |
| 1:18.8 | actually removed the thyroid nodule. I did whatever they told me to do. I did the radiation |
| 1:25.3 | and the follow-up scans from that point on for the next |
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