Breast Cancer Thriver Podcast

I am super excited today because it's another unscripted episode today! These ask me anything episodes are so much fun. I just love to teach that's when I feel so aligned and connected to my truth and my power. So I have been receiving tons of DMS about what supplements do I take? What types of things do I do to detox? You know, what am I eating, what am I avoiding eating all of these things. So let’s dive in! 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What is my breast cancer prevention diet
• Is it really safe to drink wine while in prevention
• How else can we support our bodies besides taking supplements 
• How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power

Key takeaways:

• How to make decisions and feel good about them
• Why I am the anti-inflammatory queen and I want you to be also
• It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you

Action step:

Feel good about the decisions you are making. When you feel good about those decisions and you start to move through that doubt, that creates space to move through that anxiety. 

Lauren said:

“It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you and making a decision to consume or not to consume based on what the highest version of you needs.”

“Just even that simple act of just setting an intention, you are, you're welcoming in. Your intuition and guidance to start speaking, you know, to you and through you. And it's going to open you up to more possibilities. So, um, how I support my body to prevent recurrence.”

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 Genome

Where you can find BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Today’s episode is an ask me anything! I am sharing the top asked questions I receive, Including; how ayahuasca impacted my spiritual growth, health-related questions, and so much more. Nothing is really off-limits today!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to balance your hormones if you can't take HIs
• What is Ayahuasca and how it impacted my spiritual growth
• The importance of being the highest version of you and honouring her
• What sort of supplements I take on a day to day basis

Key takeaways:

• Spiritual growth is something that can change your life and is so important to thriving
• Living in your highest truest version of self is going to change so much around you
• Imbalance in our physical body is the same thing in our spiritual body

Action step:

Look at the imbalances you are feeling spiritually and how you can create harmony 

Lauren said:

“If we have unresolved emotional issues, That's something that's in our emotional body, but that creates, um, you know, imbalance in our physical body and the same thing in our spiritual body. If we have an imbalance there it can create disease in our physical body. 

“I'm here to bring that level of healing in a way that's accessible, to everybody. And for me, she was like for you to do what you want to do in this world, you got to go in and open that, that door and that box within yourself.”

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 Genome:
https://nutritiongenome.com/shop-nutrition-genome/ref/553/

Where you can find BCT:

Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Today I am joined by therapist and Creator Of Solution Journal Box Mikaela Beck. Mikaela also joined BCT in March 2020 right before the pandemic. She made a bold choice to start a business which is such a shining example of living fully without fear and knowing what's possible when you truly commit to yourself. Mikaela is sharing simple tools with us to move through anxiety, and sharing a special code with our listeners!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Tools used to help move through anxiety
• The benefits of disconnecting from whatever is causing us stress or we worrying about for fifteen minutes a day
• Mikaela’s fifteen-minute process for journaling and using it to our advantage
• Why life after breast cancer can be the best years of your life 
• How to stay connected to that highest version of you to thrive with ease

Key takeaways:

• The power of journaling, and a routine you can implement
• To process emotions so that the emotion doesn't get so big and take over everything
• The power you have to be in control of your prevention plan and not live scan to scan

Action step:

Disconnect for fifteen minutes a day from whatever is stressing you out or making you worry.

Mikaela said:

“You know, children, spouses bills, like whatever, whatever it is, it stresses you out or that it's just something that you feel like you have to constantly, you know, be worried about. Like, um, for me, Understanding that 15 minutes a day has helped me so much. Like it could probably help other people, and just buy a helper, you know, my mentality always is, oh, how can I help this person?”

“I'm doing really great because I started this program like now a year ago where I was able to just figure out who I am and not be so scared of cancer, but also to just happen to like my energy and to be able to use that energy for good and not feel like I'm a burden and not feel like I'm somebody that has to be anxious because, you know, That's what, you know, productive people do or something like that.”

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:
soulutionbox.com
Use Code BCT20

Where you can find Mikaela Becker:
On Instagram @soulution_journal_box
soulutionbox.com
Use Code BCT20

Going down the mental spiral of anxiety isn’t helping us in any way, shape, or form. You try to push away this spiral every single time it comes back but you end just feeling more anxious.  I know this has come up alot for people in my own community and I am confident everyone listening has experienced this too. This episode is going to focus specifically on how to get out of that loop where you start to question why you got cancer. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• A plan to help break the loop of anxious feelings and thoughts 
• To take back control of your mind and really start living again
• Why it’s so important to remind ourselves that we are not our anxious thoughts 
• How to see these negative thoughts as an opportunity to heal and grow

Key takeaways:

• It’s time to shift and really let love be your teacher
• This methodology is something you can use as a way to actually spiral up instead of down
• You can choose what you want to do next when you start to spiral down and think negative thoughts. You can choose to realign your energy

Action step:

You are a beautiful soul. You are deeply loved and that you are love.

Lauren said:

“It's just when an anxious feeling comes up, it's just, you can process and you release it. There's like nothing beyond that, like that 15 minute car ride where I talk to myself, like it was a done deal and I was completely fine after it's just, it doesn't trigger an emotional spiral. It doesn't build up.”

“It took a lot of personal growth, a lot of investments in coaches and learning to cultivate a whole heck of a lot of self-love as I let go of a ton of pain. But I was able to see my diagnosis as a message to take responsibility for my actions and my inactions and take responsibility for my health and my life going forward.”

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 BCT: 

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Welcome back to another episode of The Breast Cancer Thriver podcast. Today we are talking all things anxiety which is one of the number one things my clients want to work on. I really just want you to live life with joy without worry lurking in the background, draining your focus and your energy, and without anxiety.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Ways anxiety might be showing up in your life (and you aren’t even fully aware of it)
• Why this anxious state does not have to be your new normal and you don’t have to accept it
• How we naturally want to avoid this feeling, but then that just perpetuates the cycle
• How to overcome the fear of recurrence and truly thrive after breast cancer

Key takeaways:

• In order to let anxiety go for good, the first step is to stop accumulating more charges
• A three-step system to help you in the moment let the anxiety go 
• You are not an anxious person, you are a beautiful person who is experiencing anxiety

Action step:

All of these things can fall into place effortlessly because you are doing  them from a place of love, strength, confidence, emotional freedom, and emotional strength

Lauren said:

“ I had embraced the truth of who I was because I was able to let this struggle go and be able to do that. I was finally able to go to scans without having a meltdown beforehand. I could finally read information online for prevention and not be triggered, because I was afraid of what I was missing. I could finally look in the mirror and embrace all of me. I could stop second-guessing all my choices and just enjoy my life in the present moment.”

“I was so open and receptive to making these changes in a way that was so effortless because it was so aligned with the truth of who I was. It wasn't forced, it just, it just felt so easy and I teach you that exact methodology to have it all feel easy.”

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 BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

I am sharing how to set boundaries without feeling selfish and guilty. Now, after I just finished applying these same steps in my own life I felt really called to share the four steps to setting boundaries without feeling selfish or guilty. Sharing real-life scenarios and how you can apply them today. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• This missing link and the reason why your boundaries never stick (spoiler alert this is step one)
• How to identify what areas or people or situations in your life require boundaries
• Why your voice a powerful energy center and how to use it to set boundaries
• How to be consistent in your boundary setting and sticking to them even if it feels uncomfortable at first

Key takeaways:

• Your voice is the most powerful energy center in your body
• Compassion is everything and calling it for yourself allows you to just witness your feelings without judgment
• Stepping up and asserting your needs in a beautiful angelic assertive way that's in alignment with the highest version of you

Action step:

Remain committed to this process and follow these steps as often as you need, because this truly does have the power to radically change your life with compassion and consistency

Lauren said:

“It's not just a surface-level activity that you're doing. You stepping up and setting boundaries around social media or around a person or around your care or around your meals. It's you stepping up and asserting your needs in this beautiful angelic assertive way that's in alignment with the highest version of you. It's actually rewiring the whole subconscious programming that led to people-pleasing and feeling guilty for setting boundaries in the first place.”

“The second someone needed help with something, or there was a party. You know, someone wanted me to make appetizers because I brought the best apps. I would drop everything and I would go. It didn't matter that I wanted and truly needed time to myself. I had said so many times that I was going to say no more and I needed a better self-care practice around saying, no, but I still found it really freaking difficult.”

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 BCT:

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

In today’s episode, I am sharing the second part of my two-part series all about my ayahuasca healing journey. In the second part, I am going to talk even more about the retreat and how I booked a second. I am also sharing my obsession with plant medicine and share my personal experience. You can also still enrol for BCT join here!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Why I booked a second retreat and I could not be more excited
• I am planting the seed and sharing my personal experience with plant medicine
• Every human requires a balanced masculine and feminine energy
• How I realized I wasn’t truly forgiving and I was only hurting myself 

Key takeaways:

• You are so worthy of a healthy body and you are a healthy body
• When we naturally are in alignment with who we are. Then we naturally and effortlessly do the things that we need to 
• Answer the call to things you are naturally being compelled to

Action step:

I teach my clients it’s be, do, and have.  The first step is we have to just be

Lauren said:

“I realized that if I'm not forgiving, I'm only hurting myself because I'm still carrying a wrecking ball around behind me. I'm still just filtering every experience in my life through these blinds. As just a victim and as all of these things. And I'm only hurting myself.”

“Everything else was just like this download, like you are so worthy of a healthy body. You are a healthy body, like all of these things. Then after that healing circle, I was just like, never been happier my whole life. I truly just felt like my body became a new body. It was like the energy that I always wanted to have, the way I wanted to respond to stress.”

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 BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Join The Next Round Of BCT - Still Open For Enrolment

In today’s episode, I am sharing part one of my ayahuasca healing journey. My goal in part one is to present as much information to you and maybe it plants a seed in your consciousness. Which will help you to make informed decisions about what's right for you and for your healing journey. You can also still enrol for BCT join here!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• My experience and why I chose to make this apart of my healing journey
• What exactly is Iowaska and my health disclaimer to you 
• The ceremony and how everything flowed
• How your subconscious becomes your conscious 

Key takeaways:

• We can always continue to evolve, grow, and expand
• We're exactly where we're meant to be right now
• Trust everything that is happening to you is for your highest good

Action step:

It’s time to totally love and accept every single part of you

Lauren said:

"It's like you have so much clarity and you're so aware. Everything is very present. It's not like you can't remember stuff. It's totally the opposite of being drunk. It’s even like the opposite of being high, it's like you have conscious thought, but you're also like accessing parts of your brain that you've never been able to access where you're also accessing your subconscious.”

“I know I'm just scratching the surface of who I can become because I truly see the limitlessness of what we are capable of as human beings on this earth, as we are just like spiritual beings given this human body. Because we are, you know, connected to spirit, we connect to God. We are connected to the universe. We can always continue to evolve, grow and expand. So I love where I'm at and I love that.”

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 BCT:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Join The Next Round Of BCT - Still Open For Enrolment

Being triggered like that and having all of the fear and anxiety around food and research constantly isn’t thriving. That's surviving and that's not living. Over here at Breast Cancer Thriver we are about growing through that transcending beyond that and taking radical responsibility for your life. Taking back your power and thriving.  This is exactly why Sophie, a graduate of BCT is the perfect guest to share her tips on thriving after breast cancer.  Join BCT today!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Looking at your prevention plan and really seeing what’s missing
• Taking back your power and owning it
• Why we can let go of anxiety and how that will help us live fully
• How you can take responsibility of your prevention and thrive

Key takeaways:

• Surviving doesn’t always mean thriving
• Looking at your prevention plan with love and curiosity to close any gaps in your plan 
• It’s ok to ask for help and allow someone else to help you thrive

Action step:

This is your year of transformation, letting go of the fear of the pas,t and claiming your healthy, abundant future because it's yours

Sophie said:

“I just kind of felt really alone. I just didn't really feel like I could speak to any one of my age that would kind of understand. I remember looking online, I was going into internet forums, counsellor forums and the terminology was quite negative. I just really just didn't know what I was doing.”

“You are more powerful and stronger than you think you are. Just follow your heart and let your heart guide you. Just step into your higher power. You can do anything that you want to do. ”

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 BCT:

 Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Join The BCT 12 Week Prevention and Thrivership Course

It’s time to let go of the fear, all of the stress, anxiety, and pretending to be fine.  Let’s lock that back up in 2020 for good and walk into 2021 like the queen you are! I am sharing my top ten things I do for prevention to help you close that door for good! Apply to join the next round of Breast Cancer Thrivers! 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to start to regain the sense of control over your body, your life, and your health
• Cutting out the guilt when it comes to eating and our nutrition plan
• Why it’s important to expand your mindset, beliefs on what’s possible, and thrive
• How to leave the resistance and really trust yourself and everything you are doing

Key takeaways:

• You can’t change a body that is resistant to change
• It’s time to do something you’ve never done but this can lead to thriving
• It’s important to rebuild that trust with your body

Action step:

Learn to really purge and let go of the anger, the resentment, and the sadness.  To really start thriving in life after breast cancer. 

Lauren said:

“There are things that happen in life after breast cancer, that truly do suck and there's challenges and I'm not putting rainbows and roses on this telling you it's all okay. There's challenges. But when you live in that space of the challenge, and this is hard, this is why it's always going to be like this.”

“Just pretending it doesn't exist until the next scan comes up, or you have to think about it again because that's not living. That's surviving. That's not thriving. And we didn't do all of this work in the first seven steps to just survive. We did all that to thrive. AB, and that is what we're going to do.”

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 BCT:

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthrive

Apply To Join The Next Round Of BCT

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