The Second Half

Renee Newell talks about her incredible story of getting stage IV breast cancer when she was six months pregnant with her third child.   

Dr. Cecily Havert talks about mental health.  Dr. Havert is a family doctor with special interests in women’s health and mental health.  She’s been practicing for over 15 years.  She also teaches medical students at Georgetown University.   She’s gotten a number of awards including Washingtonian Magazine’s top doctor award numerous years including the last three years.  On today’s show, she talks about mental health issues affecting women and the tools to help treat mental health.   Rebecca also shares the story of her own struggles with anxiety and the tools that have helped her. 

Adrienne Wichard-Edds talks about having panic attacks for over twenty years and the tools she has learned to manage them.  Adrienne is a writer whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, Billboard Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and Arlington Magazine.  

Rebecca shares why she started the podcast and then talks to the New York Times best selling author Anna Whiston-Donaldson about the tragic accident eight and a half years ago that took her 12-year-old son, and her journey forward after that heartbreaking day.  Anna is the author of Rare Bird, her memoir about losing her son, and of the children’s book Hugs from Heaven, written as a poem to help young children dealing with the loss of a loved one.  Her other works have been published in the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, and the Huffington Post.