Hosted by Kosha Joubert Produced by J'aime Rothbard.

When Teddy Frank was diagnosed with breast cancer, her initial reaction was one of shock and denial. Then a more competent part of herself — a part she recognised from her ancestral lineage — took charge, seeking to gather as much information as possible about her treatment options.

The visceral experience of existential terror came on much more slowly – and with it an initiation into what it means to feel at first helpless, and then embraced by a much bigger force.

In this episode, Teddy speaks about the encounter with the illness that served as the impetus for her to join Dana Revnic and Ntombiyethu Biyase to offer Journeying with Breast Cancer: A Path of Personal and Collective Learning and Growth. This year-long Integration Lab — one of 48 such Labs hosted by the Pocket Project in 2026 — aims to establish new architectures of emotional, energetic, ancestral and collective support for women around the world dealing with a diagnosis of the disease.

With breast cancer the most common form of cancer worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation, Teddy, Dana and Ntombiyethu's Lab will explore the associated shock, fear of dying, and anxiety over a possible recurrence, to grief for loss of fertility, disfigurement, shame and stigma stemming from cultural norms of feminine beauty. Isolation, over-giving as caretakers, and lack of self-care all play a role in women's experience of this disease.

The intention is to build a global community of women committed to developing their capacity to include and witness their own and each other's experience, grow a sense of interdependence between participants,, and align with the innate self-healing mechanism of Life itself.

As Teddy tells What Is Collective Healing? co-host Kosha Joubert: "I couldn't respond for a long time. I needed to go very still. And the beauty is that that stillness has infused every cell of my body. Because when do we as women get to really stop? How sick do we have to be before we allow ourselves to be cared for?"

Teddy also speaks about the ancestral echoes in her Jewish identity that her diagnosis touched in her — a theme that connects her Lab with her wider work co-facilitating calls in the Pocket Project's Jewish Trauma Relief Project.

This Lab is one of 48 Integration Labs the Pocket Project is offering in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click here. (Registration closes on 20 January, 2026).

Further Resources:

Integration Labs 2026

Journeying with Breast Cancer

Jewish Trauma Relief Lab

About Teddy Frank:

Teddy brings compassionate attunement and embodied experience to guide clients to release blockages and align with their natural state of flow.

As a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), she has over 30 years in trauma-informed somatic therapy (Reichian/Bioenergetics), polyvagal theory, transformational facilitation, is a Yoga instructor (RYT) and initiate of Swami Satchidananda, and breast cancer survivor.

She has studied with Thomas Hübl since 2017, is a Senior Assistant in Core Group, has run four Global Trauma Labs/Groups, is a certified collective trauma facilitator and Timeless Wisdom Training graduate.

Teddy is an executive coach with Mobius executive leadership and Founder of Humanenergetics, an organisation dedicated to restoring healthy relationships with self, others, and the world.