Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

Not so long ago, there was a time when food was a focus of daily life solely for survival. People farmed, hunted, gardened, canned, and put a lot of effort into ensuring there would be enough food to keep them alive.

Now there are so many food options that the choices are overwhelming; it's easy to overconsume and become overwhelmed.

Add in the fear factor after breast cancer, and there's a whole new layer of confusion.

You worry about:

The right choice

The safe choice

What will heal you

What will help you lose weight

What will prevent inflammation

And that's how the diet industry gets you or leaves you overwhelmed, and you just give up.

In this show, I'll give you some insight into something more important than what food to choose, what diet to follow, or what new supplement to take…what you think about food and your food choices.

Sound too simple? Check out this episode and see what you think.

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We judge our looks, our decisions, our accomplishments, our strengths, and our weaknesses.

We blame ourselves for just about everything we can think of including how other people think and feel.

Then a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease happens and there are so many more things we can beat ourselves up for, not the least of which is what we did to get cancer in the first place.

Isn't it time to start having your own back?

Imagine a life where you don't decide how you'll punish yourself before you even try something.

A life where you just say to yourself, it's ok, you did your best, don't beat yourself up…and then you listened to yourself.

Well, you can have that life.

Check out this week's episode to hear more about how to have your own back.

When we make the choice to wait and see what an external circumstance might create, we're making the choice not to engage in our life.

In this scenario, we are the ones who step out of life, even if we fool ourselves into thinking the circumstance (i.e. cancer) is the cause.

In this episode, you'll hear more about subtle ways in which we give up power over our lives.

How our brains offer us thoughts that we don't have to accept.

And words we can become more aware of to help us see when we're choosing to step back and let life roll on without us.

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Better Than Before Breast Cancer - Life Coaching Membership

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A blessing and curse in life is that we never really arrive.

We're always in the process of life, but we often miss what's happening in the process because we think we should be somewhere else.

We think we should have more time, more money, different circumstances.

We think we should be doing more, especially compared to the next person.

But the truth is, you're exactly where you should be…in the process.

The process can be beautiful, and it can be messy.

But being present for it takes a tremendous amount of pressure off you for not being somewhere else.

You may never get the time you want in life, but you can learn so much in the time you have.

Referred to in this episode:

Confusion After Breast Cancer Workshop

Better Than Before Breast Cancer- Life Coaching Membership

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

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How many times in life have you felt unworthy, worthless, unloved, or broken because of another person's words or actions? Wouldn't it be nice not to feel that ever again?

It is possible.

Not because you can control what other people think or do.

It's possible because you can learn that your worth is inherent and has nothing to do with anyone else's thoughts or actions.

Listen to this week's episode and become more aware of what you tell yourself other people are thinking and what you decide that means.

Learn the importance of stepping into your authentic self and how the need to control or judge other people's actions will fall away when you do that.

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Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership

Confusion after Breast Cancer Workshop

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Have you ever wondered if you have a fear of being happy?

Do you feel guilty when taking care of yourself, but you see someone else struggling?

If so, you're not alone.

Fear of happiness, or cherophobia, is identified by specific thoughts and behaviors that might be more common than you think.

In this episode, hear about those symptoms along with:

-Real-life examples of the fear of happiness

-9 questions you can ask yourself to see where you fall on the fear of happiness scale.

-Actions you can take to manage the fear of happiness in your life and create more space for embracing joy.

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Better Than Before Breast Cancer – Life Coaching Membership

Cherophobia Explained: Fear of Happiness & How to Overcome It

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What would you think if I asked you to tell me something every day for a month that you loved about yourself?

Well, I asked my members to do just that. In this week's podcast, I want to share some of the things they had to say about learning to love themselves unconditionally.

I have to say that people were a little nervous at first, and some had to process blocks even to say loving things about themselves.

But, when you hear what they have to say, I know you feel inspired by what they've discovered.

As you hear the prompts they were asked to respond to, I hope you also explore those questions for yourself so you can drop more judgments and love yourself unconditionally.

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When I look back over the past 10 years I'm amazed at how much my perspective of cancer has changed.

I thought I had it beat because I was always down for the fight.

But the most important thing I've learned is that the best way to get back to life is to let shit go.

It took many years for me to figure out that grieving was a necessary part of healing.

Even when I did figure out it took working through my own process and supporting many other women in doing the same before I really saw the power of allowing yourself to grieve.

We humans aren't that different from each other.

Our brains process trauma in similar ways and the steps of processing grief are well established.

The problem after breast cancer is we're conditioned to fight how we feel rather than process it and allow ourselves to grieve.

In this episode we'll talk about the importance of that process and how allowing yourself to grieve can give you the ability to grow.

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If you lost your hair during chemo and had to endure the weird regrowth stages, watched it grow back looking like someone else's hair, or watched it thin due to menopause and hormone treatments then you know…it's not just hair.

But you may have heard that comment from others along the way.

Hair and our identity are closely entwined.

We change our hair to fit our stage of life, reflect our personality, and fit into religious or cultural norms.

We judge people based on what their hair looks like

We envy thick, lush hair.

It signifies youth, fertility, sexuality and so much more.

A bad hair day can affect your self-confidence and not allowing yourself to experience the emotions that your thoughts around hair loss bring up can create more pain than the loss itself.

In this show, I'll dig into hair, what it means to us, how we can think about it in healthier ways, and what solutions are available to support your healthy locks while you love yourself along the way.

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Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership

American Hair Loss Association What to Know About the Latest Advancements in Treating Women's Hair Loss

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When your closet is full, it's a challenge to find anything and overwhelming to think about clearing it out.

When your mind is full with an idea or belief it's hard to see any other way to be or any other path that can be taken.

That's a painful place to be and a place we often put ourselves in when we believe there's only one way for an experience to go.

It's where we get stuck when we believe life isn't happening in the right way or the fairway.

And it's why you need to stop yourself sometimes and create enough space to stop creating more suffering than you need to endure.

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