We have always seen her beaming with love and happiness, and now her aggressive battle with Cancer has made Nadia Jamil even more positive toward existence.
Those who have followed her personal and professional trajectory know she never had an easy life. Our fighter has been through the immense struggle, but you will hardly find an interview of Nadia, a post, or a tweet from her where she has complained about her ordeals.
You will not find her ranting about her battles, being ungrateful, bitter, or trying to seek sympathy. In fact, she is empowering to the core. Her every story will move you, making you a believer that life can indeed be beautiful and it is just a matter of perspective.
never stops shining. Alhamdolillah. We turn away from it. But we always turn back for another morning 
#hope #healing #journeytowellness
She has been keeping us all updated with her progress throughout her cancer journey. The star accepted her disease and even became friends with her sickness. We saw her dancing through her radiation treatment, rocking a saree while posing with her doctors, and finding solace in her pet dog.
The Behadd actress used her celebrity power and status to uplift those around her, even standing up for abuse against women and voicing her supports towards the rape victims in Pakistan. Many might think cancer must have made her vulnerable and distraught. On the contrary, she is wiser, more lovable, inspiring, and all the more beautiful.
We contacted Nadia to catch up with her and have a heart-to-heart with her. The sweet soul bared it all and let us in on her private moments with her disease.
The whole Pakistan, the entire entertainment fraternity, and your fandom are super proud of you. How have you held yourself up in this entire phase?
I am so humbled and feel so blessed with everyone’s prayers. People have huge hearts. As for what got me through, the NHS is an amazing institution, it held most of me together throughout my illness. My mum came to my side and I had the good wishes of friends and family. I feel so grateful!
Allah blessed me with a sense of humor at the darkest times, a sense of self when I was the most alone, and Faith in His choices for me. Alhamdulillah, what more could I ask for!
With cancer also comes depression. From where did you stem the strength to struggle with your ailment?
Again the NHS helped me a lot as did my personal therapy. Meditation, prayer, Faith in Allah, in oneself, reaching out for someone to listen, and finding an incredible social media family of kind people, all helped.
The core strength came from me. I saw myself through it. And I was getting it from Allah. The awareness, that sadness and pain are a part of life and are teachers telling me something I need to listen to, has been an important lesson. It’s not an easy journey- Life. It’s not supposed to be, but we make it harder than it needs to be by resisting the inevitable change. We hold onto the past too desperately. Letting go of relationships, people, things, experiences, makes the journey a lot easier. They then stay in your life out of love not out of compulsionAlone is where the important lessons are learned, in silence and solitude.
You shared in an earlier interview about how hard it was to give up your hair. You look equally beautiful now. How have you maintained this positivity and look stunning while at it?
Thank you very much. We attach so much of our identity with how we look instead of what we do for ourselves and others. I didn’t realize how much I hide behind my hair until I let it all go- the hair and all the behaviors that attached themselves with it. I had to strip bare and be real. It felt wonderfully liberating and strong to look in the mirror and feel good without all the stereotypes.
People I loved told me I was unattractive to my face and it did not shake me. Because I liked what I saw in the mirror. I saw vulnerability, strength, honesty, and kindness. It made me smile.
What lifestyle changes have you now implemented post-treatment?
My bones are still a bit soft post-chemo and I’m still very dehydrated and burned from daily radiation for a month. I’m also struggling with diabetes and insulin injections. So eating healthy, pacing myself to exercise, stretch, and walk is all-important.
I try and keep my days simple and spend lots of time with my dog and in nature. I read poetry and am doing a literature course on Homer. Keeping it simple keeping it real.
What has the past year taught you? Do you like life and see this world differently now?
Yes. I do. I am alone. No one else can or should be invited to fight my battles for me. But I can appreciate love and kindness even as I fight my own battles and learn to parent myself more and more.
I never want to be in the emotionally vulnerable position of feeling abandoned by those I Iove, again. I must learn and have learned, people have their battles. No one abandons an adult, except the adult herself or himself. How I felt as a child can’t haunt me as an adult if I equip myself with a self-parenting spirit.
What was the best thing about this traumatic period?
Me and Allah. My Faith, Allah’s presence. Allah’s gift to me of my self. All the incredible social media family. My son’s strength.
What do you think can be done to more awareness of cancer in Pakistan?
We need to talk more about awareness. One in 3 women in the world will get breast cancer. Yet no one talks about self-examinations to our women, nor about getting assessed to catch cancer early. There is a fear around the name of cancer. We need to break the fear and stigmas so people learn how to examine themselves and go to doctors for examinations. The earlier we catch it the better.
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