Breast Cancer Thriver Podcast

What if we could feel good, live effortlessly, and live a life where we be, do, and have!  Today I am sitting down with Sophie one of the first students in BCT who joined the very first round in October 2019. We are going to talk about how sustainable this life can be and how we can set goals and intentions going into next year!  Join Breast Cancer Thriver the first round starts January 2021!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to set goals and intentions for 2021 that are going to set us up for success
• Everything in life comes down to energy and intention
• Three simple steps to manifesting and living the be, do and have life
• How Sophie joined the first round of BCT feeling anxious, skeptical, fearful, and resistant
• The changes Sophie has seen since joining the program including going to scans alone

Key takeaways:

• When you focus on how you want to be and set the intention from there that is where the energy comes from
• You can feel confident in your prevention plan 
• You are worthy of a different life that isn’t focused on stress, anciset, and questioning everything

Action step:

Align yourself with how you want to feel, be, do and have.  Set your intentions from there and the energy will come from there!

Sophie said:

“The fear of recurrence was so intense that I didn't want to go this past life. And so option B was okay. I'm going to just be very careful, listen to myself, slow down the way I want it to. I was feeling that I was stopping living while the entire society, the entire family was still ongoing.  I felt so behind, I felt so incapable, and I felt excluded from society. I needed to do something.”

“I don't want to have this insane level of anxiety and fear. I don't want to make decisions out of fear. So I just continued this program thinking of next year, more long-term and, and every week that I was waiting for those calls and this work, and I was just like learning so much. The way you explained what made it, so 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

Sign Up For My Free Three Day Nutrition Workshop 

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It’s time to thrive in your breast cancer prevention plan and a huge part of that is nutrition.  Today I am going over the 5 pillars in the nutrition portion of your prevention plan. Join my free three-day online workshop to help you thrive in 2021, I’ll be covering eating for prevention without stress, guilt, anxiety, or decision fatigue, and so much more will be covered! Join here!!!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The five most important pillars when it comes to nutrition and prevention
• How you can incorporate these pillars even during the holidays
• Why it’s time to bring your sexy back and feel good in this next stage
• Simple steps to boost your immunity 
• The importance of increasing antioxidants in your nutrition plan

Key takeaways:

• It’s possible for you to become a breast cancer thriver you just have to believe
• Know that it’s ok to ask for help and be willing to get that support
• How to let go of that feeling of being trapped or restricted after breast cancer in any way including your nutrition

Action step:

Create a balance of allowance without guilt and trust, and doing so freely, safely and with trust within your body. 

Lauren said:

“I don't want you to ever feel trapped after breast cancer or restricted in any way. It's about creating this balance of allowance without guilt and trust and doing so freely and safely because you have created so much space and so much room for trust and integrity with your body. Because you're focusing on these five things the rest of the time, and even incorporating them during the holiday season.”

“Bringing systemic inflammation down is key and the easiest way to do that is through food. It doesn't matter how many supplements you take. If you're not changing your nutrition and putting in the right anti-inflammatory foods in your body. You'll never have that impact of bringing inflammation down with supplements alone because it's just not how it works.”

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

Sign Up For My Free Three Day Nutrition Workshop 

I'm already in the holiday spirit I'm sure you love the holidays too. It's such a fun time of the year, but there's also a lot of treats this time of year. In the years pre COVID there are also a lot of holiday parties that you went to. There was also a lot of temptation everywhere and I am all about living life, being present, and enjoying all of the things that this beautiful life offers especially with food.  So today I am sharing my tips you can apply to still enjoy your favourite holiday treats… but also keeping your holistic prevention plan in mind.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• My top three tips you can apply this time of year to enjoy the treats but still keeping your plan in mind
• How we can still enjoy the things we love without having to give something up
• Why our motivation needs to be aligned with our highest best version of ourselves
• Removing the autopilot decisions from your life

Key takeaways:

• Food is just food, dessert is just dessert and it will still be there today, tomorrow, and in January 
• Pay attention to your bodies cues and tweak as you listen to those signals
• You don’t have to feel powerless to your cravings and you can still enjoy what you love

Action step:

Learn to listen to what your body is telling you and start to make shifts and tweaks as you go

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.

Are you ready to thrive in 2021?  This FREE online workshop series will give you the tools you need to: eat for prevention without stress, guilt, anxiety, or decision fatigue, Lose weight sustainably (& keep it off!), feel confident in your body & bring sexy back, and de-stress so you have better sleep!  Join here!!

Where you can find BCT:

Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

Today I am talking about why emotional health is so important in your prevention plan.  I am sharing five steps you can take to rewire your brain and how there's such a clear impact of emotional health on your physical body.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How there is a clear impact between emotional health and physical health
• Why these emotional patterns just feel like they're impossible to change
• The deep inner work to shift out of these very automatic negative patterns that bring on these uncomfortable feelings
• That it's absolutely possible to live with confidence in your health and in your prevention plan

Key takeaways:

• You can live with peace in your mind, and in your body, in your heart trust, in your body's innate capacity to heal and to literally have joy at the forefront of everything
• Stress is impacting your other hormones in a negative way
• You can use these tools in an actual life-changing way that can shift your experience at a deep level

Action step:

Take these five steps to rewire your brain and get out of the stress and fear cycle.

Lauren said:

“You didn't know what you didn't know, but now you do, and you have an opportunity to change and take radical responsibility and ownership for your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. I hope it's clear from this episode that you absolutely can reprogram your beliefs. By doing so you can powerfully change your experience navigating life after breast cancer and completely get you out of the fear cycle.”

“So before I move on and get into the framework, I really just want you to take a deep breath and just say, let it go. Like, we all have limiting beliefs, myself included. It's totally okay. Remember, like it's not a bad thing. They're just things. And. We all have these beliefs, but all they are just subconscious programming, running in the background that was formed at a young age. That's all it is. We don't have to make it mean anything else about us.”

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:

Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

I'm doing an ask me anything episode and I am super excited for it because I'm just beyond grateful every minute of every day for the life I live and the incredible community that I get to lead. I'm truly honored and humbled to be recognized as a leader in the breast cancer community.  I can’t wait to get into today’s episode and talk about everything and anything!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• My day to day as a business owner
• How the fears and doubts try to run the show and my tips for stopping that
• Dr. Google and how to not let all the resources and information overwhelm you
• Why I do the dutch test annually
• And so much more!!!!!!

Key takeaways:

• That we are all humans and if we change nothing… nothing changes
• Your new normal does not have to be your new normal
• Finding support is key to thrivership

Action step:

Start to take aligned action and really look deep inside you

Lauren said:

“We're all human. We all have fears and insecurities and doubts, but if you let them run the show, they'll continue to run the show. Nothing changes if nothing changes. And I'm grateful that I chose belief in myself and what's possible over fear. If I acted from circumstance and let fear and insecurity and doubt run the show, BCT probably wouldn't exist.”

“Your new normal does not have to be your new normal. I refuse to. I subscribe to that narrative and I really, um, encourage and empower you to start to think that same way as well. And if you need some support with that, I am absolutely here to help you.”

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:

Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Facebook Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

A very common theme that I see most often, the one that really jumped out the most was that you wanted help with triggers specifically on how not to be triggered when you saw someone else's post online. That is why I am sharing my five steps you can do in the moment when you feel triggered and start to compare.  This is something I work on with my clients inside my signature Breast Cancer Thriver program.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to not feel triggered when you view other posts
• Stopping the scan to scan and looking deeper into ourselves
• Finding ways that we can still support our sisterhood and still take care of ourselves
• How life doesn’t have to be an either-or situation

Key takeaways:

• That life can be a both-and situation
• How we can switch our mindset and the tips to do that
• You can support your friends, your community, and yourself
• And really start to live in the present to see a change

Action step:

Take empowered action and do the backend work, stop living scan to scan, do the backend work, and live in the present.

Lauren said:

“Life is not a collection of either or scenarios. It's about choice. It's about abundance. It's about limitlessness. And one of my first mentors pointed out to me, you know, my own either-or mentality. She got me to shift my mindset. From either, or by adopting this mantra, it's not either, or it's both. And, and that was so helpful for me.”

“Stop and breathe and discern what emotion or emotions you're actually experiencing because that will help you heal. Let go, and prevent future spirals. So. It's important to pause, breathe and discern how you actually feel and take action on the emotion that you feel. So is it stress? Is it fear? Whatever it is, identify 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.

Where you can find Breast Cancer Thriver:

On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

There is so much fear and confusion around hormones and estrogen. I totally get it because, after a hormonal breast cancer diagnosis at 26, I was terrified of my hormones too. But what I learned over the last five years is that we are biologically wired to fear what we don't know.  It’s time to rewire our thinking and become educated so we can no longer fear what we don’t know. Stay Tuned BCT 2.0 is coming in January!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Why we are so afraid of what we don’t know
• Estrogen and how balancing it plays a vital role in your health
• How to reduce your exposure to synthetic estrogens
• What exactly are hormones and hormone blockers

Key takeaways:

• It’s so important to educate ourselves and not fear the unknown but rather become educated
• Reducing your stress exposure and looking at natural products (check out my IGTV’s on Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver)
• Thought patterns, negative self-talk, self-sabotaging behaviour, and really just beliefs about our health, our body, and being safe inside our body really affect hormonal health

Action step:

Take radical responsibility for your health, life, and body and take your power back.

Lauren said:

“What I've learned over the last five years is that your hormones aren't the problem. Hormonal imbalances are so simply taking this medicine in isolation without incorporating some other lifestyle changes to address your hormonal imbalance. That's missing a big piece of the puzzle and when you're missing pieces of the puzzle, there are these wide gaps in things you don't understand. It creates more fear, more stress, more anxiety, and contributes in large part to why you feel just really unsupported and kind of stress on a regular basis throughout your prevention plan.”

“You will have a physical body, which, you know, we are addressing with these imbalances, but you also have an emotional and a spiritual body and imbalances in these areas create imbalances in the physical body. So when we're talking about estrogen and balancing estrogen, I want you to understand that it's not just, you know, about the amount that your body makes and what you can eliminate. You know, through food and exercise in these things, it's really understanding that your thoughts, limiting beliefs, negative patterns, self-sabotage all of these things are all affecting the hormonal health and your physical body.”

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.

It’s time to continue to take action in our treatment plans and truly feel competent, safe in your body, living without the fear of recurrence.  The first step in feeling like this is nutrition, it’s also the first module in my signature program.  Which is why I am offering something I don’t normally do…. module 1 of my signature 12-week prevention and thrivership program as a stand-alone mini-course! You can sign up for the course here!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How important nutrition is so a holistic prevention plan
• The effect stress has on other areas of your life
• The three main nutrition plans for breast cancer prevention
• The physical messages your body is sending you

Key takeaways:

• Take inspired action in your prevention plan
• Address the low hanging fruit like nutrition, and you start to feel really confident and safe and supported here in your physical body
• Remember it’s ok to change and adjust things when it comes to nutrition

Action step:

Identify what is causing you stress, worry, and anxiety in your treatment plan

Lauren said:

“In order to get to that place of feeling safe and confident in your body and confident in your prevention plan and living with the daily stress and fear of recurrence on your mind. Again, that is so possible that transportation is so possible, but we have to start with the most accessible place that the stress and the fear is coming from into your world.”

“Now you have information available to you to make an informed choice, you can take empowered action based on what your intuition is telling you. Without fear, you have knowledge now, and knowledge is the precursor to experience. So learn, listen, and take empowered action. Now that you have information and you have a gut instinct, that's something to really, really, really lean into.”

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 Prevention Mini-Course

Where you can find Breast Cancer Thriver:

Breast Cancer Thriver’s Instagram: @iambreastcancerthriver

Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook

nutritiousdeliciouslife.com

Today I sit down with Bethany Webb is Yoga Therapist, Cancer Thriver, and Certified Facilitator for The Work of Byron Katie (Mindset Coach).  Bethany shares with us her journey on how she thought she was the healthiest she could be till she heard those three little words, you have cancer. We talk about her journey and how five years later she is living her most authentic, fulfilling, joyful, and purposeful life in full integrity with herself.  She also has a free copy of her latest book for all you Thrivers! Grab My Guru Cancer on Amazon!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Mindset and how it can be such a powerful tool to carry you through
• The belief system of our subconscious mind and how it works
• Listening to that inner voice in her heard and letting it guide you
• How you can still combine holistic and conventional medicine and celebrate them both as a gift

Key takeaways:

• How important it is to express gratitude for the littlest things like holding your partner’s hand during treatment
• Why it’s so important to change your perspective on how you are looking at things
• How you can turn your pain into purpose

Action step:

Identify your current thoughts on your situation and flip your perspective to see the purpose.

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:

A copy of Bethany’s book “My Cancer Guru”

Where you can find Bethany Webb:

Bethany’s Facebook Page

Bethany’s Instagram @bethanywebbyoga

Bethany’s Website bethanywebb.com

Today I am sitting down with Tania Koulakian who is the programs and digital media manager from The Tigerlily Foundation.  We are discussing their unwavering commitment to take action, how they show up in really powerful ways and game-changing ways. We are also chatting about spirituality and how that can help us to thrive! Tania shares a glimpse into the Tigerlily’s 2020 virtual spirit retreat! Join the retreat here - https://www.tigerlilyfoundation.org/2020-virtual-spirit-retreat/

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The power of spirituality and how it can affect how we thrive
• The importance of surrounding yourself with a foundation that takes action and makes an impact
• The lapse in care for young women going through breast cancer
• Why we need to advocate, educate, empower, and support young women going through and after breast cancer. Which is exactly what the Tigerlily Foundation does
• How the Tigerlily foundation came to be

Key takeaways:

• How to connect with your spiritual path and why the virtual retreat is the perfect time
• How you can join and help to take inspired actions
• My journey on getting connects with the Tigerlily foundation

Action step:

Become informed and empowered about your health

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:

Mukta Cork Yoga Mat

2020 Virtual Spirit Retreat

Where you can find Tania and the Tigerlily Foundation:

Tania’s Instagram

Tigerlily Foundation’s Instagram

Tigerlily Foundation’s Website

Tigerlily Foundation’s Twitter

Tigerlily Foundation’s Facebook

Tigerlily Foundation’s 5K

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