Incurable

How does going through cancer change your identity? How does it change you as the person? How about other family members?

Is there a better way to understand our identity and how we process? And what does it mean to be a third child in regards to identity when dealing with life & death.

In this episode, Rhonda and Clayton also talk about the impact from decades of NOT dealing with grief.

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Why is processing cancer (or anything difficult) so hard? Why do we resist processing the big things in life straight away?

Rhonda and Clayton explore their tentativeness to process the incurable cancer diagnosis and why. What stage of 'grief' are they in?

They also talk about living with the decision of stopping certain treatments to allow different treatments to happen – and the consequences of those decisions (both good and bad). And what control do cancer patients really have?

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Could there be a worse word than cancer or incurable?

We discover the word that Rhonda hates in the midst of incurable cancer.

Hear from her about making the most of each moment despite her diagnosis. And this episode helps us understand who Rhonda is … things like family, faith, connecting to people, her sensitivity and art. And how she takes part in MMA!

We also hear more about who Clayton is… things like radio, family, laughter and faith.

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This first episode introduces the concept of a family dealing with the words 'Incurable cancer'. Rhonda and Clayton ask each other to react to that news. And they start exploring the difference between thinking through this news and feeling the news.

Their conversation includes discussion on how the individual processes versus how family members process it. And it answers the question, (right in the moment) - would you rather be told it was incurable cancer or just cancer?

This episode was recorded in Rhonda's hospital room and starts with the unexpected circumstances that led to the cancer diagnosis. Connect to the incurable podcast group to hear other stories and share yours at incurablepodcast.com

In your final months of living would you dedicate time to recording down your thoughts, feelings and perspective so others could benefit from it? Rhonda Bjelan did.

Coming May 1st is the new podcast, Incurable.

Incurable is a real time journey after being given a diagnosis of incurable cancer. It is a mother and sons exploration of what you go through in the last months of life, Raw, honest and designed to help others understand this period in someone (and their families) life.

It is for those who might be about to go through something similar, for friends and family to understand and for the simply curious. Incurable explores what it means to die, to live and asks what happens to belief & trust in God during a terminal cancer journey.

Join Rhonda Bjelan and her son Clayton as they share what it means to be given the word 'Incurable'.