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Carrie Crary of Carrie’s Healing Cafe, became familiar with the challenges cancer poses through her work as in the VA radiation department and her only personal battle with the disease. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
Carrie Crary of Carrie’s Healing Cafe, became familiar with the challenges cancer poses through her work as in the VA radiation department and her only personal battle with the disease. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
Carrie Crary is no stranger to cancer care.
Crary had worked as a nurse in the radiation department at the Phoenix Veterans Administration and had survived one bout with cancer before becoming a registered nurse.
Then, in 2018, she received the news that changed her life.
Crary learned that she had stage four breast cancer and the outcome didn’t look good.
“Initially, I was just freaked out,” she said. “I was (having) anxiety attacks in the middle of the night and it was just devastating being told that you only have so long to live. It was traumatizing.”
Crary said she began seeing signs about alternative care that she attributes to a higher power.
“God started putting things in my life that led me to start researching alternative care,” Crary said. “I went into a smoothie shop and the owner sat down with me and started talking to me about all these therapies and different things like to take and to do as far as juicing and different things.
“I sat on a bench at work at the VA and had a patient come and sit next to me and just randomly start talking to me about all these things they knew nothing about – what I’m going through – and it just kept coming at me through friends, family and strangers alike.”
From there, Crary began doing her research on alternative medicine and care and she stumbled upon a book titled “Chris Beats Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally” which introduced Crary to Gerson Therapy.
That therapy is a natural treatment that activates the body’s ability to heal itself through an organic, plant-based diet, raw juices, coffee enemas and natural supplements.
“Juicing is huge because that’s high nutrition that you’re just flooding your cells with which makes your immune system extremely strong,”
Crary became intrigued with clinics that offered alternative medicine and discovered Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers in Cancun, Mexico. There, she began experimenting with alternative treatments for her cancer in addition to taking a drug prescribed by her doctors that targets the protein that causes her cancer to spread.
After about a month of treatment in Mexico, Crary began to notice a significant improvement in how she felt mentally and physically while partaking in treatments like putting herself in a hyperbaric chamber – a pressurized oxygen chamber that floods cells with oxygen – and using heat-based detoxification.
Inspired by her results, Crary purchased an infrared sauna, hypothermia unit, INDIBA radiofrequency machine, a hyperbaric chamber, therapeutic ultrasound technology, PEMF technology and Vibe Lymph Therapy.
“The infrared sauna and hypothermia both detoxify through sweating by putting the body through heat and mimicking a fever,” Crary said.
Her INDIBA machine also allows customers to lay on a grounding pad where they can use a probe to go over areas that have cancer, inflammation or an injury by creating apoptosis, which destroys cancer cells.
“I try to use the hyperbaric chamber twice a week and I rotate between the two heats — the hypothermia machine and the infrared sauna — daily and then I do the near-infrared lighting daily as well,” she said.
Because of this, Crary decided that she had to share her knowledge with the masses, which is why she decided to open Carrie’s Healing Cafe in May in a space nestled off of Pinnacle Peak Road and Pima Road – not far from the Mayo Clinic.
“I also utilize Mayo Clinic and I know people do utilize Mayo Clinic and so I feel like this is a great kind of area for health care,” Crary said.
Although the business name of Carrie’s Healing Cafe may sound like a restaurant, Crary admits that was by design.
“It was going to be a cafe,” Crary said with a laugh. “The cafe aspect is we have a menu but it’s a menu of therapies.”
Her space also offers a cafe-like lounging room where customers can read books, chat and relax as they learn more about the science behind the services offered at Carrie’s Healing Cafe.
She also wants the space to be a place for people to find positivity.
“The message throughout the clinic is you working on yourself is huge while you’re going through cancer and getting that positive frame of mind and that I can do attitude will help with the fight.
Carrie’s Healing Cafe is located at 8876 E. Pinnacle Peak, Scottsdale.
carrieshealingcafe.com, https://youtu.be/o1hPe7oxHsU.
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