Saima Thompson - The Importance of Slowing Down and Self Love

Live Like You Are Dying with Fi Munro PhD

In this episode we hear from Saima Thomason (aka Curry and Cancer) talking about food, self love and the importance of living for today. Saima Thompson runs award winning restaurant Masala Wala Cafe in South London, an entrepreneur and thanks to a recent cancer diagnosis now writer and public speaker. After being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at 29 years old Saima’s life changed forever, now a cancer patient she was determined to bring her worlds of food and health together. Proving to herself and others that palliative care isn’t the end of living. She suffered mentally after the news but through sheer determination she worked through life’s traumas with coping strategies and looks to carry the diagnosis with her. Her focus has been to raise awareness in BAME Communities as there is a total lack of conversation around disease let alone cancer, this is due to taboo and lack of education, integration especially with elders. Saima has written for Refinery 29, Huffington Post, VICE and featured in national campaigns for Macmillan Cancer Support, Cancer Research UK and Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. She guest cohosted the BBC 5 podcast You Me and The Big C speaking about the topic of culture and cancer and is currently working on a cook book. @curryandcancer