Breast Cancer Thriver Podcast

In today’s episode, I'm so excited to have my past client Karen join us today! With Karen's story I want it to really empower you, and I want you to be able to see yourself in Karen. And know that what's possible for her as possible for you too. Join Nutrition For Prevention here!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Karen's journey of being a four year triple negative stage two breast cancer survivor
• How the breast cancer thriver community helped her navigate life after breast cancer
• Her biggest tips for overcoming "scanxiety"
• How to move to a live of being grateful and feeling blessed

Key takeaways:

• What you see in Karen (and others) is possible for you
• The past takes not just our futures away but also the present moment
• We may not be able to go back in time, but we can move forward

Action step:

It's really about moving forward with all of those realities as an integrated part of your experience. By living for you, you're making amazing, you know, beautiful creating blessings in your life forever.

Karen said:

“You asked, do you want to live your next four years like this? And I was like, no, I don't, and you were the first breast cancer survivor I talked to that, didn't really talk about breast cancer survivory. I can't even explain it.”

“You have to do the things that are in this course and,  just continue them through your life. So you can have this calmness, but then you've got tools that when life gets anxious and crazy, you can always come back to it,”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

Nutrition For Prevention, Join HERE!

Where you can find BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

In today’s episode, I want to offer some guidance about how to move forward in your healing, even if you still want some things to change. The reason this is so important is because when you're stuck in this energy of, I wish things were different, or I wish I could change this. It keeps your energy in your thoughts stuck in the past.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Moving through the energy that keeps us in the past
• Why things may feel hard (I.E. cooking, eating, etc)
• What’s preventing us from moving forward 
• How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power

Key takeaways:

• Entertaining fear based thoughts get us nowhere
• The past takes not just out futures away but also the present moment
• We may not be able to go back in time, but we can move forward

Action step:

It's really about moving forward with all of those realities as an integrated part of your experience. By living for you, you're making amazing, you know, beautiful creating blessings in your life forever.

Lauren said:

“Because when you can learn to truly accept what is, that is when you can move forward and create what's next.”

“We can honor those realities and still live the healthiest, happiest, best life that you want.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

Nutrition For Prevention, Join HERE!

Where you can find BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

I am super excited today to have Laura Carfang on the podcast! Laura is a true visionary, a true kind, compassionate, and open heart committed to serving the breast cancer community. It’s an honor to have her on the podcast. We are going to be talking all about resources, and support from day one. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Resources from Laura’s non-profit
• Supported needed from day one, to thriving
• Who is survivingbreastcancer.org
• And more on Laura’s story and her approach to support

Key takeaways:

• Finding creative ways to profound your healing journey
• The umbrella of information survivingbreastcancer.org has created to help empower you during your journey from day one
• Why as women we need to be supporting other women and how we can do that

Action step:

Showing yourself self-love. Remind yourself you deserve this time for you. And you deserve to connect to something bigger. 

Laura said:

“How can we help the husbands who have lost their spouses to metastatic? How can we help the children? How can we help us who are living in going through it? We host a Thursday night Thrivers meetup every Thursday at 7:00 PM. Eastern it's on zoom”

“I thought it was going to be super easy to just go onto Google and look for a young breast cancer women in the Boston area, being a metropolitan area with access to some of the amazing hospitals that we have here. And I was shocked how hard it was to find people to talk to.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

[FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook

Where you can find Laura:

On Instagram @survivingbreastcancer.org

Their website www.survivingbreastcancer.org

I am super excited to record this episode because it’s been a hot minute since I have done a solo jam podcast. I felt really called to record this because let’s face it as lockdown restrictions lift, you're out more, and let’s face it people always want to indulge in summertime…. I thought let’s talk all about carbs! [FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The struggles and fears that come up with life after breast cancer
• Why the most logical place to start is with food
• Carbs, the good, the bad, the ugly
• Why this summer's one I want you to enjoy

Key takeaways:

• Getting into the vibration of, you're not making mistakes
• Why there are no mistakes only choices 
• There are only choices and we need to start making those choices from a place of love

Action step:

Feel good about the choices you make and then start to shift out of that place of worry.

Lauren said:

“The goal of this episode is to really get you into the vibration of, you're not making mistakes. You, there are no mistakes. There are only choices. And we're going to get you to start making some choices from that place of love because then you, you feel good about them and you can start to shift out of that, that place and worry.”

“Because the only thing in this whole universe that we have control over is our choices.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

[FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook.

Where you can find BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

I am super excited today because I am joined by Lea Hughes who is an incredible soul, who is thriving with stage four breast cancer. She is the embodiment of living holistically and not letting your diagnosis mean anything about you and really using it as a catalyst to live in total alignment and use this diagnosis as an opportunity to be your best self live your best life.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• A more in-depth look at Human Design
• Why life after breast cancer is meant to be about happiness and joy and thriving
• Why we should not continue to live in fear
• How to be in alignment with your health, physical health, emotional health, and spiritual health 

Key takeaways:

• Take conscious, empowered and proactive action
• Take back your power and not live in fear
• Live in total alignment and use this diagnosis as an opportunity to be your best self 

Action step:

Decide that life after breast cancer can be whatever you want it to be. 

Lea said:

“It’s really interesting because people always say, you know, like how traumatic must that have been to be diagnosed with stage four cancer. And as it was, you know, there's nothing kind of, there's nothing nice about that. But at the same time for me, it was, it was a really welcome change to the lifestyle that I've been living.”

“I think that was one of the penny drop moments for me, where I was like, wow, that's insane. Like, cause that is so me, I genuinely voiced like, I'm I wasn't angry. I wasn't, you know, there wasn't any, I wasn't sad. I was genuinely frustrated. Like I always used to feel like there was some, there was something inside of me that I wasn't allowing to come out. Like almost like this feeling of being like trapped inside myself, if that makes sense. And I think that human design just really allowed me to kind of let that out and to be like, okay, this is who I'm supposed to be.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook

Where you can find Lea:

On Instagram @lea.livingfurthur

Lea’s Website livingfurthur.co.uk

Lea’s Podcast The Whole Self Podcast

I am super excited because I am joined by my personal energy healing shamanic healing practitioners Rebecca. We are going to be talking all about becoming your best self using practical shamanic tools, how to incorporate that into your life, and really dive deeper into our personal healing journeys. FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Who is Rebecca and how did she enter my personal healing journey only a few months ago
• The benefits of using shamanic tools to heal
• Why sound healing is so powerful and clearing
• Rebecca’s best practices for introducing someone to this type of work and how to get started

Key takeaways:

• Why it’s so important to connect with your highest version of self
• How it’s so important to have a daily practice to connect to the vibration of their best selves 
• You can take tiny steps of incorporating healing practices into your life and build upon them over time

Action step:

Recognizing there is so much more to your healing than just physical and it’s time to dive deeper into learning more about the vibrations and energy.

Rebecca said:

“So even just like how to set up sacred space because bringing some kind of meditation or way of prayer into our life. It just solidifies and sort of anchors in what our prayers are, what our intentions are. So just like how to set up a simple, sacred space, how to set, how to set up and use an altar. Um, it works with the directions because shamanism is very connected to nature, to the directions and to the elements.”

“We all have the ability to do this type of shamanic work. It doesn't mean we're meant to work with clients, but, but work for work on ourselves and our own energy fields. And so I believe we all have the ability to, you know, work with what you would call the unseen invisible realms.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links:
FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook!

Where you can find Rebecca:

On Instagram @shamansisters

Visit her website and order book - shamansisters.com

Email proof of an order of her book to: [email protected] to receive your $25 gift card to her crystal shop!

I am super excited because I am joined by my own master energy practitioner Sarah Hardy. We are going to discuss spiritual tools for guilt, fear, and overwhelm.  We will also dive a bit deeper into how we met each other, our experience of working with each other, and so much more. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Who is Sarah Hardy and how did she help me become the person I am today
• Why it’s so important to lean into the spiritual tools to let go of any feelings that no longer serve you 
• How you can tap into these tools and use them whenever you feel like the guilt, the fear or the overwhelm are creeping in
• How to feel aligned and connected with your truth and power

Key takeaways:

• Why it’s so important to connect with your highest version of self
• How energy medicine and healing can change things
• It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you

Action step:

Wherever you are in your healing journey, hear these words, hear these tools, let them sink in. Today’s episode is for your highest good, and there's something in here for you.

Sarah said:

“So we can even just remove the labelling of the fear completely and just look at the frequency itself and say, I need to trust that the earth provides for me. I need to trust that I will survive. I need to just get outside, let the frequency of the earth come up into my body and shift my energy. And that starts to shift away from that heavier frequency of these fears so that sometimes we don't even have to go deeper into them.”

“And one of those shifts is the overthinking that we start to do right within this need to have these answers a big reason why we struggled to find them is that we're overthinking and we're overthinking from a very human-based place. Right? So we're overthinking our fears, right? Leading us into worrying about a lot of things and worry is the realm of imagination.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Where you can find Sarah:

On Instagram @solastahealingarts

Here website solastahealingarts.com

I am super excited today to have Breast Cancer Thriver graduate Jen Scoles-Sequin.  Jen is going to be sharing her journey, what led her to join Breast Cancer Thriver, and how it’s possible to live your best life after breast cancer.  Our next round of Breast Cancer Thriver starts May 17th and we are over 40% full! You can join Breast Cancer Thriver here!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Jen’s time in Breast Cancer Thriver
• Her journey to living the best life possible after breast cancer
• The mindset shifts she needed to make so this was possible
• Jen’s top tips for living toxin-free

Key takeaways:

• Peeling back the layer and making decisions from I choose too not I have to
• Tomorrow is another new beginning to embody your highest version of you
• You can live the life you want

Action step:

When you start doing things out of love for yourself, not out of fear, it just changes your energy. It just changes your vibration.

Jen said:

“My transformations, I feel, came more from some of the emotional work that we did and the limiting beliefs and things than it did. Then just solely through the changes in diet and things like that.”

“It's hard stuff to go through, um, to deal with the emotions and the journaling prompts in this course. Um, I mean, there were times where it would take me, I'd have to take me like five or six attempts to get through some of the modules. Like I couldn't do it all at one time because it brought up so much stuff.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Where you can find Jen:

On Instagram @jsequin

Jen’s Website: www.getoiling.com/jsequin

There's so much that's on my heart right now. I feel called to share all of it because I feel very deeply that what I am going through and experiencing now in my life… More specifically how I'm healing from it in an authentic way that grows me and moves me forward to being a better version of myself would help my listeners. Also, Breast Cancer Thriver is now accepting applications, apply now!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What happens when you continue to deny wounds and push the healing away
• The pressure we put on ourselves 
• Why it’s important to become aware of the pattern of thinking that isn’t serving you
• How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power

Key takeaways:

• Why it’s important to feel safe in our bodies again
• The benefits there are to really freeing yourself again because you are worthy
• When you make choices, really think of your future self

Action step:

You have the power to let that pain go. You have the power to choose joy. You have the power to choose peace. You have the power, you have the power to end your suffering.

Lauren said:

“When you make choices, really think of your future self. If you have a spiritual practice, what would your highest self-guide or spirit want you to do at this moment? Like, make a choice from that perspective that can really help you be in alignment.”

“I hope that hearing my experiences of moving through them, usually with grace, but sometimes not so gracefully. As I grow into this next level version of myself, that it will really help you grow through what you're going through and feel more peace, ease, joy, and serenity in your life.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links I mention in this episode:

Join Breast Cancer Thriver

Where you can find BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Join Breast Cancer Thriver

I am super excited today because we are joined by Tina Conrad, DJ breast cancer today. You may know her from Instagram, Tina is such a source of light and positivity in our beautiful breast cancer community here. This conversation is all about faith which is such an important part of my life, but it wasn't always that way. I share my story with my faith, how I went from not having a practice, to having a really deep connection with the universe God's source my creator. It was such a really great conversation because we have different vehicles to practice our faith, but it's the same result. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The importance of seeking out other resources for support
• The different vehicles to practice faith and what it may look like for you
• How to incorporate this type of practice into your day
• Tina’s breast cancer journey both as the survivor and the daughter of one

Key takeaways:

• We can rely on something other than just our own willpower and strength
• Letting go and surrendering to a higher power
• That higher power is going to look different for everyone

Action step:

You have to let go of the old, to create space for the new, and there's something that's so powerful about letting go and surrendering to a higher power outside of you.

Tina said:

“My mom was diagnosed when I was in my young twenties. I think I was 25 and that really pulled our family all together, but then she had a recurrence about three years later and it really made me angry and it really kind of for a time severed my ties maybe to some of that faith. I think there is something about, you know, the faith that you grow up with, but then the faith that you find when you're an adult and I can be very moved now.”

“But now I truly feel if I can help one more person, see God, the way that I see them too, you know, then I'm really making a difference in this world. So if anyone has any questions or wants to reach out or, you know, Even wants to have a debate. Like I welcome it. Um, you know, I just think it's, it's great to have conversations about faith and be, and be transparent about who you are.”

Thanks so much for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!

If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Where you can find Tina:

On Instagram @djbreastcancer

DJ Breast Cancer Podcast

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