Healing Mindset

What if the most important question after a cancer diagnosis isn't "What treatment do I start?" but "What questions haven't I asked yet?"

In this powerful episode of Healing Mindset, cancer patient advocate Rusty J. Roberts shares the deeply personal story that changed the course of his life. When his mother was diagnosed with stage IV cancer, she was given twelve weeks to live unless she underwent aggressive chemotherapy. After severe complications, she was sent home with no remaining treatment options and little hope.

Yet her story did not end there.

Rusty reveals how an integrative oncology clinic helped stabilize her condition, support her body through a life-threatening immune response, and ultimately contribute to a recovery that allowed her to live twelve more years. That experience led him to spend more than a decade working alongside physicians, helping thousands of families understand their options, ask better questions, and navigate the overwhelming world of cancer care.

This conversation is not about rejecting conventional medicine. It is about understanding that integrative care combines evidence-based conventional treatments with supportive holistic strategies designed to help patients tolerate treatment better, strengthen the body, and make more informed decisions about their care.

About the Guest:

Rusty J. Roberts is a cancer patient advocate who has spent more than a decade working alongside physicians in the field of integrative oncology. Following his mother's extraordinary recovery, he dedicated his work to helping patients and caregivers understand conventional and complementary treatment approaches, connect with experienced medical professionals, and become stronger advocates for themselves during one of the most challenging periods of their lives.

What You'll Learn:

• Why a prognosis is not always the whole story
• The difference between conventional, holistic, and integrative oncology
• How immunotherapy works by helping the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells
• What dendritic cell therapy is and why it is being explored in certain cancer settings
• Why hydration, nutrition, and physical activity matter during cancer treatment
• The questions patients and families should ask before making major treatment decisions
• Common mistakes caregivers make when supporting a loved one with cancer
• How to become a more informed and empowered participant in your own care.

Key Takeaways:

• A diagnosis is the beginning of a series of decisions, not the end of the story.
• Integrative oncology focuses on combining supportive therapies with conventional treatment, not replacing appropriate medical care.
• Patients should never hide supplements, therapies, or complementary approaches from their oncology team.
• Hydration and movement are often overlooked but critically important during treatment.
• Caregivers must protect their own health in order to continue supporting others.
• Asking one additional question at each appointment can lead to better understanding and better decisions.
• Hope becomes more meaningful when it is paired with information, support, and thoughtful medical guidance.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction: The question families often never ask

03:00 Rusty's mother's diagnosis and twelve-week prognosis

08:00 The chemotherapy complications that changed everything

13:00 Discovering integrative oncology

18:00 Understanding immunotherapy and the immune system

24:00 Dendritic cell therapy explained in simple terms

30:00 Why hydration, nutrition, and exercise matter during treatment

36:00 The importance of bringing a loved one to medical appointments

41:00 How patients can become stronger advocates for themselves

47:00 Resources for families seeking additional information and support.

Guest Resources:

Website: https://brio-medical.com/

Available through the website:

• Educational resources on integrative oncology
• Information about supportive cancer care approaches
• Patient advocacy consultation requests
• Integrative treatment planning resources
• Guidance for patients and caregivers seeking additional information.
• Listeners can schedule a complimentary consultation to better understand their integrative cancer treatment options, ask questions, receive personalized guidance on treatment paths that may best fit their diagnosis and goals, and, when appropriate, be introduced to physicians and clinics that specialize in those approaches.

Memorable Quote

"A diagnosis is not a single fixed sentence. It is the beginning of a series of choices, and informed hope begins with asking one more question than you planned to ask."

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A healing mindset is not relentless positivity. This episode makes room for the messy middle, where nothing is resolved yet and you keep going anyway.

Kim Rogers shares her own long road back to health with host Nazish, and what changed once she stopped outsourcing every question about her body. Her health views are personal experience rather than medical guidance, and they open a wider conversation about ownership and self-compassion.

About the Guest:

Kim Rogers spent years working in Western medicine before a long illness reshaped how she thought about healing. Known online as the Worm Queen, she founded RogersHood and hosts the podcast What's Eating U?

Key Takeaways:

• Healing is messy. Expecting it to be tidy is what keeps people stuck.
• Sit in the discomfort. Feeling it through is the work, not a detour.
• Notice the thing you did that you did not like, then correct it. That is the shift.
• Look at your own problem the way you would look at a friend's.
• Be your own advocate and bring real questions to the professionals caring for you.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://rogershood.com

Podcast: What's Eating U?

Instagram: @mrsrogers.hood

TikTok: @mrsrogershood

Episode Chapters: (approx.)

[00:00] The Space Between. Nazish opens on what shifts before the pain does.

[02:00] Not Forced Positivity. What a healing mindset actually asks of you.

[04:30] Trained in the Body, Untrained in Healing. Kim on what her career did not teach her.

[10:00] Old Blueprints. Why familiar patterns feel safer than the unknown.

[14:20] Handing Over the Question. Self-awareness and being your own advocate.

[19:00] A Regular Tuesday. Correcting yourself in real time, without the shame spiral.

[25:30] Sit In It. Nazish and Kim on overthinking, self-talk, and letting it move.

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What if the biggest obstacle to your healing isn't your past, but the story you keep telling yourself?

In this thoughtful episode of Healing Mindset, counselor Stephanie McAllister explores how our inner dialogue shapes the way we see ourselves, the choices we make, and the life we believe we're capable of creating.

Drawing on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Stephanie explains the powerful relationship between our thoughts, emotions, and actions. She shares practical ways to recognize negative self-talk, interrupt limiting beliefs, and gradually replace old narratives with healthier, more compassionate ones.

This conversation reminds us that healing doesn't happen through perfection. It begins with awareness, self-kindness, and the courage to tell ourselves a different story.

About the Guest:

Stephanie McAllister is a professional counselor and the founder of Virtual Connect, a Canada-based virtual counseling practice. She specializes in helping individuals build healthier mindsets, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and create meaningful, lasting personal growth through evidence-based therapeutic approaches.

What You'll Learn:

• How negative self-talk shapes your daily life
• The connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
• Why awareness is the first step toward healing
• A simple CBT framework for changing limiting beliefs
• How to recognize unhealthy inner narratives
• Why self-compassion creates lasting change
• Practical strategies for building a healthier mindset
• When reaching out for professional support can help

Key Takeaways:

• Your thoughts influence your emotions and your actions.
• Healing begins by noticing the stories you tell yourself.
• You deserve the same kindness you offer to others.
• New thought patterns require practice and patience.
• Progress isn't about perfection. It's about consistency.
• Small mindset shifts create lasting personal growth.
• Awareness opens the door to meaningful change.
• Seeking help is a sign of strength, not weakness.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:00 The impact of negative self-talk

05:00 Understanding thoughts, feelings, and actions

09:00 Why awareness matters

13:00 Rewiring limiting beliefs

17:00 Building healthier thought patterns

22:00 Practical mindset exercises

27:00 When to seek professional support

30:00 Where to connect with Stephanie McAllister

Guest Resources:

🌐 Website:

https://virtualconnect.ca

📧 Email:

[email protected]

Services include:

• Virtual counseling across Canada
• Free 15-minute discovery call
• Individual mental health support
• CBT-informed counseling

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Meet Arnold Beekes, founder of Brain Athletes, who joins The Healing Mindset to talk about why lasting healing starts with personal responsibility, not outside help.

Listeners will hear why self-kindness and challenging "I'm not good enough" are central to healing, plus habits that support it.

About the Guest:

Arnold Beekes is founder of Brain Athletes and a coach who has lived and worked across five countries. A former executive turned entrepreneur, he helps people build healthier mindsets and self-trust.

Key Takeaways:

• He encourages people to take an active role in their own healing rather than placing all responsibility on outside help.
• Turning the inner critic into an inner cheerleader is one of his core practices for emotional healing.
• The belief "I'm not good enough" often starts in childhood and can be consciously worked on and changed.
• He frames healing as happening from the inside out: your inner state shapes how you experience the outside world.
• Movement, food, sleep, and a safe environment are basic daily foundations he says healing work depends on.
• Feelings are meant to be felt and understood, not suppressed; suppressing them tends to make them stronger.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: brainathletes.club
• Free 30-minute session available via the contact page

Episode Chapters:

• [00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset & Meet Arnold Beekes (approx.)
• [04:00] The Biggest Misconception About "Healing Mindset" (approx.)
• [08:00] The Inner Critic vs. the Inner Cheerleader (approx.)
• [13:00] Where the Belief "I'm Not Good Enough" Comes From (approx.)
• [18:00] Living From the Inside Out in Everyday Life (approx.)
• [23:00] The Basics: Movement, Food, Sleep, and Safety (approx.)
• [28:00] What to Do When Old Patterns Resurface & Where to Find Arnold (approx.)

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There is a quiet that arrives after everything falls apart, and it asks a hard question: who are you now? This episode is for anyone standing in that stillness, wondering how to begin again. Host Ria sits with Jennifer Halls to explore what real healing asks of us.

You will leave with a gentler definition of healing, not as fixing or going back, but as moving toward your bigger self. Jennifer shares simple, grounded ways to hear your intuition and trust your own pace.

About the Guest:

Jennifer Halls is an intuition consultant and author based in South Carolina. She left a decade-long museum curatorial career to help people connect with their intuition, and she navigated her own MS diagnosis by tuning into that same inner guidance. Her book is called "You know."

Key Takeaways:

• Healing is not fixing. It is reconnecting with your bigger self and moving forward, not returning to who you used to be.
• Name what you feel, especially fear. Naming it in the body loosens its grip and lets you choose with clarity.
• Mind the space between deciding and acting. A pause can be constructive, not weakness, when you know what it holds.
• Try the body-check practice: ground through one foot, then make a plain statement and notice whether you tighten or open.
• Let yourself linger. Not every season is for pushing forward, and stillness is part of the process too.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://youknow.net

YouTube

Book: You know. How to Invite and Nourish a Relationship with Your Intuition

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] The Quiet After Everything Falls Apart. Sitting in the stillness that asks who you are now

[03:00] Walking Away at 33. Leaving a curator's career to follow a quiet knowing

[07:00] Healing Is Not Fixing. Why moving forward matters more than going back

[12:00] Naming What the Body Holds. Meeting fear without shame

[17:00] The Space Between Deciding and Doing. When a pause becomes a gift

[22:00] A Practice You Can Try. Grounding through the body to hear your intuition

[27:00] Learning to Linger. Trusting your own timeline to heal

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This episode is for anyone who thinks change needs one big dramatic moment. Host Sreemedha talks with philosophy professor Peg O'Connor about how real transformation is built through small, repeated choices.

Peg shares what recovery taught her about regret, why some regret helps us grow while other kinds quietly corrode us, and why a positive vision matters as much as knowing what to leave behind.

About the Guest:

Peg O'Connor is a professor of philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College and author of several books on addiction and recovery. She speaks openly about her own recovery from alcoholism.

Key Takeaways:

• Real friendship means people who share your values and help you grow, not just people to have fun with.
• Not all regret is harmful, the kind that leads you to repair a mistake can make you stronger.
• Real change needs two things: a clear sense of what feels wrong, and a positive vision to move toward.
• Life is often bittersweet, expecting only good or only bad times to last sets you up for disappointment.
• You can't control what happens to you, but you always have some say in your attitude and effort.

Connect With Peg O'Connor:

Website: pegoconnorauthor.com

Instagram & TikTok: @thesoberphilosopher

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome & Introduction — Sreemedha opens The Healing Mindset and welcomes Peg O'Connor

[03:00] (approx.) Philosophy for Everyday Life — why philosophy isn't just for classrooms

[08:00] (approx.) What Aristotle Teaches About Friendship — choosing people who help you grow

[14:00] (approx.) The Two Faces of Regret — when it helps you and when it corrodes you

[19:00] (approx.) The Two Ingredients of Real Change — naming what's wrong and having a vision

[24:00] (approx.) Living the Bittersweet — holding onto both joy and hardship

[28:00] (approx.) Closing Reflection — the small, sustainable movement of change

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This episode is for anyone who has been quietly avoiding a feeling they don't want to look at. Doug Red Hail Pineda, founder of The Church of Psychedelics, joins The Healing Mindset to talk about what it actually means to turn toward pain instead of running from it.

Doug shares why healing has to happen from the root, not just the surface, and why the real work begins after the breakthrough, in the slow, ordinary practice of integration.

About the Guest:

Doug Red Hail Pineda is the founder of The Church of Psychedelics, a spiritual community exploring natural plant medicine as a tool for self-inquiry and healing. He is also an author and spiritual teacher working at the intersection of Native American spirituality and modern consciousness practices.

Key Takeaways:

• Healing has to reach the root of a wound, not just manage its surface symptoms, or the same pain keeps growing back.
• A guide can only take you as deep as they've gone themselves; look for people who've actually faced what you're facing, not just studied it.
• Courage in healing means staying present while your sense of self feels disrupted, not being fearless.
• Integration, what you do in everyday life after a breakthrough, is often the most important and most overlooked part of healing.
• Healing rarely meets people by asking them to become someone else first; it meets them where they already are.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://thechurchofpsychedelics.com

Newsletter: https://thechurchofpsychedelics.com/newsletter

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dougredhailpineda

Instagram: instagram.com/doug_red_hail_pineda

Episode Chapters

[00:00] Cold Open — the turning point in how we see our struggles (approx.)

[03:00] The Biggest Misconception About Having a Healing Mindset (approx.)

[08:00] Spiritual Being, Human Experience: Two Lenses for Healing (approx.)

[14:00] Why Healing Has to Reach the Root, Not Just the Leaves (approx.)

[20:00] Finding a Guide Who's Actually Faced the Same Truth (approx.)

[26:00] Courage, Ego, and Staying Present With the Truth (approx.)

[31:00] Integration: The Real Work That Happens After (approx.)

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A healing mindset is not about staying positive all the time or having every answer figured out. Educator and author Wahida Mohamed joins Healing Mindset to explain why real healing starts with introspection, small daily gratitude, and the willingness to keep choosing yourself, even on the hardest days.

Wahida shares stories from her book Wisdom Feast, practical ways to notice when your cup is empty, and why reconnecting with childhood passions can be one of the simplest paths back to yourself. A warm, grounded conversation about healing as a daily practice, not a destination.

About the Guest:

Wahida Mohamed is a trained secondary teacher with more than 30 years of experience in education, an author, poet, and podcaster. She wrote Wisdom Feast: What Would You Like to Be Remembered For, and is the founder of Wisdom Feast Ltd.

Key Takeaways:

• Healing mindset starts with introspection: understanding yourself before trying to understand your environment.
• Community support, whether from family, friends, or local groups, can carry you through challenges even without a large family network.
• A daily gratitude practice, even for small things, builds awareness that naturally multiplies over time.
• Reconnecting with what made you happy as a child can point you back toward your passion as an adult.
• Looking after yourself first, through rest, movement, or quiet time, isn't selfish, it's what allows you to show up for others.
• A setback is a wake-up call to pause and reset, not proof that things will keep going wrong.

Connect with Wahida Mohamed:

Website (mentioned in episode): https://www.wahidamohamed.com

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/wahida-mohamed-9554a943

Email: [email protected]

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to Healing Mindset: what this practice really means

[03:00] (approx.) The Biggest Misconception: healing mindset isn't forced positivity

[08:00] (approx.) Stories from Wisdom Feast: community, courage, and reconnecting with passion

[14:00] (approx.) Everyday Signs of Healing: the quiet shifts we tend to miss

[19:00] (approx.) Starting a Gratitude Practice: journaling, noticing, and refilling your cup

[24:00] (approx.) When the Cup Is Empty: recognising setbacks as a wake-up call

[28:00] (approx.) The Closing Reflection: choosing yourself, even on the hard days

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There is a moment when you realise you have carried something so long you have forgotten what lightness feels like. Rand Timmerman has had several of those moments across eighty years, and none of them arrived because the difficulty disappeared.

From a childhood Christmas with one repaired wagon under the tree, to Vietnam, to law, to nearly losing his life to alcohol in his sixties, to hiking the Appalachian Trail at seventy-two with his brother. His throughline is simple and hard: you can change course, and you only ever have to manage the next step.

Content note: this conversation includes discussion of alcohol addiction and recovery, war, and a brief reference to a hospital stay under suicide watch. If any of it lands close to home, please reach out to someone you trust or a qualified professional.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Rand R. Timmerman, Esq. grew up poor in a small village in upstate New York, served with the Marines in Vietnam, and went on to a career in law. He is the author of A Spiritual Passage, the account of hiking the Appalachian Trail with his brother Ron when they were seventy-two and seventy-one, and he has been sober for over twelve years.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• His resentment of poverty became fuel rather than bitterness, and shaped everything after.
• Every time a door opened, he took it. He did not need to know how it would work out.
• For years he read his drinking as a moral failing before understanding it differently.
• He credits recovery to a twelve step programme, a mentor, and a higher power he had to be willing to ask for help from before he believed in it.
• Helping other men stay sober is part of how he stays sober himself.
• 2,200 miles, fourteen states, 600 mountains. He never planned past the next step.
• He fell nearly every day, broke four hiking poles, and finished anyway.
• The road of happy destiny is the road itself, not somewhere the road ends.
• The old man planting a tree he will never harvest: live as though you will not die.
• At eighty, after two months of blindness, waking up able to see is the whole day made.

CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:

Website: https://www.randtimmerman.com

Email: [email protected]

Book: A Spiritual Passage, which includes around 500 photographs from the trail

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset: meeting your pain differently (approx.)

[02:00] Christmas 1951, one wagon under the tree, and the look on his parents' faces (approx.)

[06:00] Janitor shifts, pin setting, and leaving college for the Marine Corps (approx.)

[10:00] Vietnam, becoming a lawyer, and two brothers on very different spiritual paths (approx.)

[15:00] Alcohol in his late fifties, and the help he could not give himself (approx.)

[20:00] The Appalachian Trail at seventy-two: falling daily, one step at a time (approx.)

[25:00] The road of happy destiny, and Zorba the Greek and the fruit tree (approx.)

[28:00] Two months blind at seventy-nine, gratitude, and where to find Rand (approx.)

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Most emotional turmoil is not a character flaw. It is the predictable output of a system nobody ever explained to us. If you keep returning to the same fear, shame or frustration even when you know it is not serving you, this conversation on emotional regulation and rewiring the brain is for you.

Alan Bodnar shares his self-driving framework: your automatic responses are the accelerator, and deliberate attention through mindfulness is the brake. You will leave with a practical way to interrupt old emotional habits, a plain-language grasp of neuroplasticity, and permission to stop taking your reactions so personally.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Alan Bodnar is the author of The Self-Driving You and the founder of the project of the same name. Over a decade he worked through more than 500 books across neuroscience, behaviour, AI and mindfulness to build an original framework for understanding automatic human responses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Emotions are wired responses from experience, not evidence of who you are.
• The sympathetic nervous system is the accelerator. Slowing the breath engages the brake.
• Where attention goes, neural patterns grow. Attaching to a thought strengthens it.
• Interrupting a pattern works better than suppressing it. Redirect, do not fight.
• Mindfulness belongs in the gaps of an ordinary day, not only in long sittings.
• Rewiring takes hundreds of repetitions, which is why patience is part of the method.

CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:

Website: https://www.theselfdrivingyou.com

Instagram, LinkedIn and X: @theselfdrivingyou

Book: The Self-Driving You, available on Amazon and Audible

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset: why emotional turmoil is a system, not a flaw (approx.)

[02:30] What people get most wrong about emotional regulation (approx.)

[06:00] The accelerator and the brake: how breath reaches the nervous system (approx.)

[10:00] Why the same emotional habit keeps firing, and what plasticity really means (approx.)

[15:00] Drop the story, go to the energy: interrupting instead of suppressing (approx.)

[19:30] A medical emergency abroad and the one thing still in his control (approx.)

[25:00] Mindfulness as mental training, plus where to find Alan and his book (approx.)

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