We’re back—fashionably late, but here nonetheless! In this episode, Glynn shares an honest update on life in remission, reflecting on his mindset and the ongoing balance between remission and the fear of recurrence. We also chat about the future direction of the podcast and offer some thoughts on managing post-cancer anxiety.

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

You can also follow us on Instagram.

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something good comes out of cancer? It certainly can if we see it that way.

Cancer can be a sharpening stone for life’s purpose. It can show us what matters to us and what really doesn’t. And…what matters does not have to be the big achievements or the flashy glory soaked goals. For so many, life is clarified to show us the absolute beauty in the ‘smaller’ things.

Glynn shares with us a little about how cancer sharpened his purpose mid-treatment, and how it’s all sitting now that he’s no longer in chemo chair.

We also get a good update on how remission feels. Does it feel normal? Like nothing happened?

Big thanks to Kate Forster for letting us play her piece, 'Why having a Purpose in life is bulls*#*t". Kate can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/kateforsterwrites/

We refer to a good life design book in this episode, called Living Forward, by Michael Hyattt and Daniel Harkavy

Another book the whole world should read is Man’s Search For Meaning, by Viktor E Frankl

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

You can also follow us on Instagram.

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wait…men get breast cancer?! Who knew?! 1% of all breast cancer cases occur in men, and our guest in this episode, Wayne Bell, is in that 1%.

Wayne talks us through the ins and outs of it all. How he discovered it, his treatment journey, some of the mental side of it all, and what tattoos he’s considering to incorporate his scar on his pec from his breast cancer removal surgery.

Through this episode we have learned that male breast cancer is more common than we thought. Men need to know this is a possibility so we check all of our bits, and not just the testicle, like they taught us school. Thanks go out to Wayne for being a legend and being willing to share the rollercoaster ride he’s been on.   

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

You can also follow us on Instagram.

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Without trust in others, we’d be anxious all the time and everything would be a threat. The cancer journey requires a lot of trust in doctors, nurses, pharmacists, technicians. The stakes feel high, we feel vulnerable, and we often have to outsource our healthcare to folks we have very little relationship with.

So, how do we do it? What can we trust in? What can we think about? Is trust a choice? Is trust earned? What level of distrust is normal? Glynn answers some of these questions as he shares his journey through his own treatment and what he considered.  

In this episode, we briefly discuss the IPSOS Global Trustworthiness Index. If you’re interested for a look, take a peek using the URL below, or just give it a google. 

https://www.ipsos.com/en/ipsos-global-trustworthiness-index-2024

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

You can also follow us on Instagram.

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever been 17 years-old, had a 12 hour brain surgery and then raised half a million dollars? One man has - Baxter Hutchinson. He’s a true cancer legend with a great story to tell.

Baxter shares with us how an athlete approaches cancer treatment and all the messy side effects along the way. Through some very low lows, he trained himself back into health with a steely resolve. Give this man a goal, and he’ll go beyond it. 

This guy’s story is hard, yet his perspective is awesome; a perspective changed by cancer, and he would say for the better. We are all lucky to get to listen to this tale of courage, determination and grit.   

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Was all of Glynn’s chemo and radiation worth it? Did it do the job?

This episode is special - there’s nothing planned or scripted here. Glynn spoke to his oncologist about 90 minutes before this episode was recorded. He found out the results of the scan that looked inside and he lets us in on the truth of it all. This one’s a bit more raw…and a true piece of real life. It’s just two old friends, facing the hard parts of life, and sharing in a milestone together.   

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scanziety - What a beast! Going through the scanning machine and getting the results can be a scary process. Some struggle with the machine itself - It’s a bit of a tight squeeze. Finding out results, well…that’s also a sobering reality to sit in; is the news good or bad? The lead up in the weeks before the whole thing can also be a serious challenge to sit with the worry and ‘what ifs’.

This episode was recorded the day before Glynn’s big scan that tells him the news - did all that radiation and chemo work? Is the cancer still there or has it been blasted outta here?

Glynn lets us in on how he’s feeling, what he’s doing to manage his own scanziety, and gives lots of other things to think about when sitting on the edge of big, potentially scary, news like scan results.

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Got someone in a crisis, and you don’t know how to help? Want to do something but you’re not sure what? This episode is for you. 

Here is the rub: we can’t always fix the issue/diagnosis, that's up to the health professionals. But as friends, we can help our mates cope by making our care active, rather than passive. We can turn our 'thinking of you's' into actionable gestures. And we can get our caring out of our heads and into the world.

In this episode, Glynn gives us some things to think about, in regards to what good helping can look like and what should be considered. We look at what actually makes a difference. Glynn also opens up the playbook of things that were done for him and his family that they really appreciated during the diagnosis and treatment journey. 

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. Often, the best place to start is your family doctor or GP. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk immediately, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

12 Rounds of Radiation, 6 Rounds of chemo, 8 months of treatment and 56 laxatives later, Glynn has finished cancer treatment. In this episode, he reflects on what he did well, some of his 'cancer stats', and what he’d do differently.

And the most surprising thing? Glynn found treatment harder on his mind than on his body. While this won’t be true for everyone’s cancer journey, as a psychologist, Glynn shares his perspective on how to keep the mental-health impacts of treatment to minimum. 

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.   

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So you’ve told your kids about your cancer. Now what? Who else in their life do you tell? Can the kids tell their mates? Do their teachers need to know? What other info do the kids need to know? Glynn and Jaz share the ways their parenting approach had to shift at times. They discuss practical things they did to allow life to be as normal as possible whilst also protecting Glynn’s struggling immune system.

Mentioned...

-Camp Quality (https://www.campquality.org.au/) who provide programs and services to young people and their families for free, including free accommodation around Australia to help families reconnect.         

- Caring Kids (https://caringkids.org.au/caringkids-toy-box/) is the organisation that send out joy boxes to young carers of cancer patients.

-The Cancer Council has some great resources on talking to young people about cancer, specifically, at this link: (https://www.cancervic.org.au/cancer-information/children-teens-and-young-adults/talking-to-kids-about-cancer/overview.html)

Canteen is another great resource for supporting young people affected by cancer and has some helpful information that can assist young people in adjusting to a parental cancer diagnosis. (https://www.canteen.org.au/young-people/parent-carer-cancer)

Books discussed in this episode include ‘Hey Warrior: A Book for Kids About Anxiety’ by Karen Young. This is an excellent read that discusses the mind and brain when kids (actually, grown ups too) are anxious. Karen Young has also written ‘Hey Awesome’, which is worth a read. We also chat about ‘The Invisible’ String by Patrice Kast and ‘The Memory Tree’ by Britta Teckentrup - Both beautiful kids books about grief.  

We would love to hear from you if this episode resonated with you, if you have questions, or if you just want to let us know you’re listening. You can email us at [email protected]

New episodes of Chemotional Rollercoaster are published weekly, on Wednesdays, Australian Eastern Time.

Lastly, Chemotional Rollercoaster is not a substitute for seeking one’s own professional advice. The strategies and skills discussed in all Chemotional Rollercoaster episodes are either what has worked for Glynn or his guests, specifically, or are things discussed in a general way. Anyone who is dealing with their own health issues, mental or physical, should seek their own professional advice on what may help to support them, uniquely. If anyone is struggling, and needs to talk, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 

If you do want to access a psychologist for you or your kids, seeing your GP or family doctor for a referral is an excellent place to start.  

Thanks go out to Rory Chambers, as always, for his music featured in this episode ([email protected]). 

Chemotional Rollercoaster is presented by Glynn Chambers

Production, sound and editing by Rose Paton

Music by Rory Chambers ©2024 [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.