Perusing the breast cancer support Facebook groups, I have found a huge number of posts from women saying they are trying to stay positive. In so many cases I wonder what possible benefit they would find from trying to stay positive when they are in a very difficult time. When it seems what they really need is some compassionate allowance of the negativity. Listen in for more.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't like using the term breast cancer survivor to describe myself. In this episode I walk you through the thought process I went through that brought me to this realization and what term I have shifted to instead.

I interview my client Jana about her experience after breast cancer treatments ended. Jana is a successful business woman who had always been able to bounce back from adversity. But breast cancer was different. She struggled with thinking about the future. She struggled with her emotions.

She shares which tools have helped her most in her recovery journey, and the things she hears in her mind in my voice that keep her moving forward.

Some women struggle with feeling happy after they get done with breast cancer treatments. There can be multiple reasons for this, but one I think shows up for most women is happiness inequality. In this episode I dive into what this is, how it presents, how it lowers your experience of happiness, and some ways to combat it.

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Women often struggle with the idea of accepting the fact that a cancer recurrence is a possibility. They push back on it because they think that accepting this idea means that they will be resigned. But this isn't true. Listen in to understand the difference.

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In this episode we talk about the cancer experience when you don't have a spouse, significant other, children or parents as the foundation of your support network and the surprising places that support can come from.

In this first-ever interview episode, I speak with Kathleen Brazie. The conversation was so good, we had to make it 2 episodes. In this first episode we talk about her philosophy of working with her body rather than fighting cancer, being an empowered partner on your treatment team, and the idea of taking on a new form or identity after treatments end.

Kathleen is the founder of Purple Boots Creative with the mission of empowering change through advocacy and movement.

Here's how you can connect with her:

• purplebootscreative.com
• Facebook - /PurpleBootsCreative

Going back to work after breast cancer can cause worries of overwhelm. In this episode I talk about what one of the Survival is Insufficient: Breast Cancer Recovery members did to prepare herself after we coached on this topic in a live Q&A call.

Women often tell me that they just wish they knew what their future held. Will the cancer come back? When? Will it be metastatic? But a very difficult situation I'm going through right now is showing me that knowing ahead of time comes with its own burden. One I'm not sure is worth the benefits.

In this impromptu, unscripted episode, I talk about a series of events that left me feeling a lot of negative emotions, and then how I worked through them. This is a real life example of how I use the work I teach breast cancer survivors in situations beyond breast cancer.