Breast Cancer Thriver Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lauren Neuburger
Your weekly dose of information and inspiration to help you reclaim control of your health, life, and body and THRIVE after breast cancer.
In today’s episode, I'm so excited to have my past client Karen join us today! With Karen's story I want it to really empower you, and I want you to be able to see yourself in Karen. And know that what's possible for her as possible for you too. Join Nutrition For Prevention here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Karen's journey of being a four year triple negative stage two breast cancer survivor
- How the breast cancer thriver community helped her navigate life after breast cancer
- Her biggest tips for overcoming "scanxiety"
- How to move to a live of being grateful and feeling blessed
Key takeaways:
- What you see in Karen (and others) is possible for you
- The past takes not just our futures away but also the present moment
- We may not be able to go back in time, but we can move forward
Action step:
It's really about moving forward with all of those realities as an integrated part of your experience. By living for you, you're making amazing, you know, beautiful creating blessings in your life forever.
Karen said:
“You asked, do you want to live your next four years like this? And I was like, no, I don't, and you were the first breast cancer survivor I talked to that, didn't really talk about breast cancer survivory. I can't even explain it.”
“You have to do the things that are in this course and, just continue them through your life. So you can have this calmness, but then you've got tools that when life gets anxious and crazy, you can always come back to it,”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Nutrition For Prevention, Join HERE!
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
In today’s episode, I want to offer some guidance about how to move forward in your healing, even if you still want some things to change. The reason this is so important is because when you're stuck in this energy of, I wish things were different, or I wish I could change this. It keeps your energy in your thoughts stuck in the past.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Moving through the energy that keeps us in the past
- Why things may feel hard (I.E. cooking, eating, etc)
- What’s preventing us from moving forward
- How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power
Key takeaways:
- Entertaining fear based thoughts get us nowhere
- The past takes not just out futures away but also the present moment
- We may not be able to go back in time, but we can move forward
Action step:
It's really about moving forward with all of those realities as an integrated part of your experience. By living for you, you're making amazing, you know, beautiful creating blessings in your life forever.
Lauren said:
“Because when you can learn to truly accept what is, that is when you can move forward and create what's next.”
“We can honor those realities and still live the healthiest, happiest, best life that you want.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Nutrition For Prevention, Join HERE!
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
I am super excited today to have Laura Carfang on the podcast! Laura is a true visionary, a true kind, compassionate, and open heart committed to serving the breast cancer community. It’s an honor to have her on the podcast. We are going to be talking all about resources, and support from day one.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Resources from Laura’s non-profit
- Supported needed from day one, to thriving
- Who is survivingbreastcancer.org
- And more on Laura’s story and her approach to support
Key takeaways:
- Finding creative ways to profound your healing journey
- The umbrella of information survivingbreastcancer.org has created to help empower you during your journey from day one
- Why as women we need to be supporting other women and how we can do that
Action step:
Showing yourself self-love. Remind yourself you deserve this time for you. And you deserve to connect to something bigger.
Laura said:
“How can we help the husbands who have lost their spouses to metastatic? How can we help the children? How can we help us who are living in going through it? We host a Thursday night Thrivers meetup every Thursday at 7:00 PM. Eastern it's on zoom”
“I thought it was going to be super easy to just go onto Google and look for a young breast cancer women in the Boston area, being a metropolitan area with access to some of the amazing hospitals that we have here. And I was shocked how hard it was to find people to talk to.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
[FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook
Where you can find Laura:
On Instagram @survivingbreastcancer.org
Their website www.survivingbreastcancer.org
I am super excited to record this episode because it’s been a hot minute since I have done a solo jam podcast. I felt really called to record this because let’s face it as lockdown restrictions lift, you're out more, and let’s face it people always want to indulge in summertime…. I thought let’s talk all about carbs! [FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The struggles and fears that come up with life after breast cancer
- Why the most logical place to start is with food
- Carbs, the good, the bad, the ugly
- Why this summer's one I want you to enjoy
Key takeaways:
- Getting into the vibration of, you're not making mistakes
- Why there are no mistakes only choices
- There are only choices and we need to start making those choices from a place of love
Action step:
Feel good about the choices you make and then start to shift out of that place of worry.
Lauren said:
“The goal of this episode is to really get you into the vibration of, you're not making mistakes. You, there are no mistakes. There are only choices. And we're going to get you to start making some choices from that place of love because then you, you feel good about them and you can start to shift out of that, that place and worry.”
“Because the only thing in this whole universe that we have control over is our choices.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
[FREE GUIDE!] Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
I am super excited today because I am joined by Lea Hughes who is an incredible soul, who is thriving with stage four breast cancer. She is the embodiment of living holistically and not letting your diagnosis mean anything about you and really using it as a catalyst to live in total alignment and use this diagnosis as an opportunity to be your best self live your best life.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- A more in-depth look at Human Design
- Why life after breast cancer is meant to be about happiness and joy and thriving
- Why we should not continue to live in fear
- How to be in alignment with your health, physical health, emotional health, and spiritual health
Key takeaways:
- Take conscious, empowered and proactive action
- Take back your power and not live in fear
- Live in total alignment and use this diagnosis as an opportunity to be your best self
Action step:
Decide that life after breast cancer can be whatever you want it to be.
Lea said:
“It’s really interesting because people always say, you know, like how traumatic must that have been to be diagnosed with stage four cancer. And as it was, you know, there's nothing kind of, there's nothing nice about that. But at the same time for me, it was, it was a really welcome change to the lifestyle that I've been living.”
“I think that was one of the penny drop moments for me, where I was like, wow, that's insane. Like, cause that is so me, I genuinely voiced like, I'm I wasn't angry. I wasn't, you know, there wasn't any, I wasn't sad. I was genuinely frustrated. Like I always used to feel like there was some, there was something inside of me that I wasn't allowing to come out. Like almost like this feeling of being like trapped inside myself, if that makes sense. And I think that human design just really allowed me to kind of let that out and to be like, okay, this is who I'm supposed to be.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook
Where you can find Lea:
On Instagram @lea.livingfurthur
Lea’s Website livingfurthur.co.uk
Lea’s Podcast The Whole Self Podcast
I am super excited because I am joined by my personal energy healing shamanic healing practitioners Rebecca. We are going to be talking all about becoming your best self using practical shamanic tools, how to incorporate that into your life, and really dive deeper into our personal healing journeys. FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Who is Rebecca and how did she enter my personal healing journey only a few months ago
- The benefits of using shamanic tools to heal
- Why sound healing is so powerful and clearing
- Rebecca’s best practices for introducing someone to this type of work and how to get started
Key takeaways:
- Why it’s so important to connect with your highest version of self
- How it’s so important to have a daily practice to connect to the vibration of their best selves
- You can take tiny steps of incorporating healing practices into your life and build upon them over time
Action step:
Recognizing there is so much more to your healing than just physical and it’s time to dive deeper into learning more about the vibrations and energy.
Rebecca said:
“So even just like how to set up sacred space because bringing some kind of meditation or way of prayer into our life. It just solidifies and sort of anchors in what our prayers are, what our intentions are. So just like how to set up a simple, sacred space, how to set, how to set up and use an altar. Um, it works with the directions because shamanism is very connected to nature, to the directions and to the elements.”
“We all have the ability to do this type of shamanic work. It doesn't mean we're meant to work with clients, but, but work for work on ourselves and our own energy fields. And so I believe we all have the ability to, you know, work with what you would call the unseen invisible realms.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links:
FREE GUIDE! Simplify Eating for Prevention Recipe eBook!
Where you can find Rebecca:
On Instagram @shamansisters
Visit her website and order book - shamansisters.com
Email proof of an order of her book to: admin@shamansisters.com to receive your $25 gift card to her crystal shop!
I am super excited because I am joined by my own master energy practitioner Sarah Hardy. We are going to discuss spiritual tools for guilt, fear, and overwhelm. We will also dive a bit deeper into how we met each other, our experience of working with each other, and so much more.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Who is Sarah Hardy and how did she help me become the person I am today
- Why it’s so important to lean into the spiritual tools to let go of any feelings that no longer serve you
- How you can tap into these tools and use them whenever you feel like the guilt, the fear or the overwhelm are creeping in
- How to feel aligned and connected with your truth and power
Key takeaways:
- Why it’s so important to connect with your highest version of self
- How energy medicine and healing can change things
- It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you
Action step:
Wherever you are in your healing journey, hear these words, hear these tools, let them sink in. Today’s episode is for your highest good, and there's something in here for you.
Sarah said:
“So we can even just remove the labelling of the fear completely and just look at the frequency itself and say, I need to trust that the earth provides for me. I need to trust that I will survive. I need to just get outside, let the frequency of the earth come up into my body and shift my energy. And that starts to shift away from that heavier frequency of these fears so that sometimes we don't even have to go deeper into them.”
“And one of those shifts is the overthinking that we start to do right within this need to have these answers a big reason why we struggled to find them is that we're overthinking and we're overthinking from a very human-based place. Right? So we're overthinking our fears, right? Leading us into worrying about a lot of things and worry is the realm of imagination.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find Sarah:
On Instagram @solastahealingarts
Here website solastahealingarts.com
I am super excited today to have Breast Cancer Thriver graduate Jen Scoles-Sequin. Jen is going to be sharing her journey, what led her to join Breast Cancer Thriver, and how it’s possible to live your best life after breast cancer. Our next round of Breast Cancer Thriver starts May 17th and we are over 40% full! You can join Breast Cancer Thriver here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Jen’s time in Breast Cancer Thriver
- Her journey to living the best life possible after breast cancer
- The mindset shifts she needed to make so this was possible
- Jen’s top tips for living toxin-free
Key takeaways:
- Peeling back the layer and making decisions from I choose too not I have to
- Tomorrow is another new beginning to embody your highest version of you
- You can live the life you want
Action step:
When you start doing things out of love for yourself, not out of fear, it just changes your energy. It just changes your vibration.
Jen said:
“My transformations, I feel, came more from some of the emotional work that we did and the limiting beliefs and things than it did. Then just solely through the changes in diet and things like that.”
“It's hard stuff to go through, um, to deal with the emotions and the journaling prompts in this course. Um, I mean, there were times where it would take me, I'd have to take me like five or six attempts to get through some of the modules. Like I couldn't do it all at one time because it brought up so much stuff.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find Jen:
On Instagram @jsequin
Jen’s Website: www.getoiling.com/jsequin
There's so much that's on my heart right now. I feel called to share all of it because I feel very deeply that what I am going through and experiencing now in my life… More specifically how I'm healing from it in an authentic way that grows me and moves me forward to being a better version of myself would help my listeners. Also, Breast Cancer Thriver is now accepting applications, apply now!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- What happens when you continue to deny wounds and push the healing away
- The pressure we put on ourselves
- Why it’s important to become aware of the pattern of thinking that isn’t serving you
- How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power
Key takeaways:
- Why it’s important to feel safe in our bodies again
- The benefits there are to really freeing yourself again because you are worthy
- When you make choices, really think of your future self
Action step:
You have the power to let that pain go. You have the power to choose joy. You have the power to choose peace. You have the power, you have the power to end your suffering.
Lauren said:
“When you make choices, really think of your future self. If you have a spiritual practice, what would your highest self-guide or spirit want you to do at this moment? Like, make a choice from that perspective that can really help you be in alignment.”
“I hope that hearing my experiences of moving through them, usually with grace, but sometimes not so gracefully. As I grow into this next level version of myself, that it will really help you grow through what you're going through and feel more peace, ease, joy, and serenity in your life.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Join Breast Cancer Thriver
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Join Breast Cancer Thriver
I am super excited today because we are joined by Tina Conrad, DJ breast cancer today. You may know her from Instagram, Tina is such a source of light and positivity in our beautiful breast cancer community here. This conversation is all about faith which is such an important part of my life, but it wasn't always that way. I share my story with my faith, how I went from not having a practice, to having a really deep connection with the universe God's source my creator. It was such a really great conversation because we have different vehicles to practice our faith, but it's the same result.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The importance of seeking out other resources for support
- The different vehicles to practice faith and what it may look like for you
- How to incorporate this type of practice into your day
- Tina’s breast cancer journey both as the survivor and the daughter of one
Key takeaways:
- We can rely on something other than just our own willpower and strength
- Letting go and surrendering to a higher power
- That higher power is going to look different for everyone
Action step:
You have to let go of the old, to create space for the new, and there's something that's so powerful about letting go and surrendering to a higher power outside of you.
Tina said:
“My mom was diagnosed when I was in my young twenties. I think I was 25 and that really pulled our family all together, but then she had a recurrence about three years later and it really made me angry and it really kind of for a time severed my ties maybe to some of that faith. I think there is something about, you know, the faith that you grow up with, but then the faith that you find when you're an adult and I can be very moved now.”
“But now I truly feel if I can help one more person, see God, the way that I see them too, you know, then I'm really making a difference in this world. So if anyone has any questions or wants to reach out or, you know, Even wants to have a debate. Like I welcome it. Um, you know, I just think it's, it's great to have conversations about faith and be, and be transparent about who you are.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find Tina:
On Instagram @djbreastcancer
DJ Breast Cancer Podcast
DJbreastcancer.org
I am super excited today because it's another unscripted episode today! These ask me anything episodes are so much fun. I just love to teach that's when I feel so aligned and connected to my truth and my power. So I have been receiving tons of DMS about what supplements do I take? What types of things do I do to detox? You know, what am I eating, what am I avoiding eating all of these things. So let’s dive in!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- What is my breast cancer prevention diet
- Is it really safe to drink wine while in prevention
- How else can we support our bodies besides taking supplements
- How to feel aligned and connect with your truth and power
Key takeaways:
- How to make decisions and feel good about them
- Why I am the anti-inflammatory queen and I want you to be also
- It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you
Action step:
Feel good about the decisions you are making. When you feel good about those decisions and you start to move through that doubt, that creates space to move through that anxiety.
Lauren said:
“It's really about always connecting to the highest version of you and making a decision to consume or not to consume based on what the highest version of you needs.”
“Just even that simple act of just setting an intention, you are, you're welcoming in. Your intuition and guidance to start speaking, you know, to you and through you. And it's going to open you up to more possibilities. So, um, how I support my body to prevent recurrence.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Nutrition Genome
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Today’s episode is an ask me anything! I am sharing the top asked questions I receive, Including; how ayahuasca impacted my spiritual growth, health-related questions, and so much more. Nothing is really off-limits today!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How to balance your hormones if you can't take HIs
- What is Ayahuasca and how it impacted my spiritual growth
- The importance of being the highest version of you and honouring her
- What sort of supplements I take on a day to day basis
Key takeaways:
- Spiritual growth is something that can change your life and is so important to thriving
- Living in your highest truest version of self is going to change so much around you
- Imbalance in our physical body is the same thing in our spiritual body
Action step:
Look at the imbalances you are feeling spiritually and how you can create harmony
Lauren said:
“If we have unresolved emotional issues, That's something that's in our emotional body, but that creates, um, you know, imbalance in our physical body and the same thing in our spiritual body. If we have an imbalance there it can create disease in our physical body.
“I'm here to bring that level of healing in a way that's accessible, to everybody. And for me, she was like for you to do what you want to do in this world, you got to go in and open that, that door and that box within yourself.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Nutrition Genome:
https://nutritiongenome.com/shop-nutrition-genome/ref/553/
Where you can find BCT:
Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Today I am joined by therapist and Creator Of Solution Journal Box Mikaela Beck. Mikaela also joined BCT in March 2020 right before the pandemic. She made a bold choice to start a business which is such a shining example of living fully without fear and knowing what's possible when you truly commit to yourself. Mikaela is sharing simple tools with us to move through anxiety, and sharing a special code with our listeners!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Tools used to help move through anxiety
- The benefits of disconnecting from whatever is causing us stress or we worrying about for fifteen minutes a day
- Mikaela’s fifteen-minute process for journaling and using it to our advantage
- Why life after breast cancer can be the best years of your life
- How to stay connected to that highest version of you to thrive with ease
Key takeaways:
- The power of journaling, and a routine you can implement
- To process emotions so that the emotion doesn't get so big and take over everything
- The power you have to be in control of your prevention plan and not live scan to scan
Action step:
Disconnect for fifteen minutes a day from whatever is stressing you out or making you worry.
Mikaela said:
“You know, children, spouses bills, like whatever, whatever it is, it stresses you out or that it's just something that you feel like you have to constantly, you know, be worried about. Like, um, for me, Understanding that 15 minutes a day has helped me so much. Like it could probably help other people, and just buy a helper, you know, my mentality always is, oh, how can I help this person?”
“I'm doing really great because I started this program like now a year ago where I was able to just figure out who I am and not be so scared of cancer, but also to just happen to like my energy and to be able to use that energy for good and not feel like I'm a burden and not feel like I'm somebody that has to be anxious because, you know, That's what, you know, productive people do or something like that.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
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Where you can find Mikaela Becker:
On Instagram @soulution_journal_box
soulutionbox.com
Use Code BCT20
Going down the mental spiral of anxiety isn’t helping us in any way, shape, or form. You try to push away this spiral every single time it comes back but you end just feeling more anxious. I know this has come up alot for people in my own community and I am confident everyone listening has experienced this too. This episode is going to focus specifically on how to get out of that loop where you start to question why you got cancer.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- A plan to help break the loop of anxious feelings and thoughts
- To take back control of your mind and really start living again
- Why it’s so important to remind ourselves that we are not our anxious thoughts
- How to see these negative thoughts as an opportunity to heal and grow
Key takeaways:
- It’s time to shift and really let love be your teacher
- This methodology is something you can use as a way to actually spiral up instead of down
- You can choose what you want to do next when you start to spiral down and think negative thoughts. You can choose to realign your energy
Action step:
You are a beautiful soul. You are deeply loved and that you are love.
Lauren said:
“It's just when an anxious feeling comes up, it's just, you can process and you release it. There's like nothing beyond that, like that 15 minute car ride where I talk to myself, like it was a done deal and I was completely fine after it's just, it doesn't trigger an emotional spiral. It doesn't build up.”
“It took a lot of personal growth, a lot of investments in coaches and learning to cultivate a whole heck of a lot of self-love as I let go of a ton of pain. But I was able to see my diagnosis as a message to take responsibility for my actions and my inactions and take responsibility for my health and my life going forward.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Welcome back to another episode of The Breast Cancer Thriver podcast. Today we are talking all things anxiety which is one of the number one things my clients want to work on. I really just want you to live life with joy without worry lurking in the background, draining your focus and your energy, and without anxiety.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Ways anxiety might be showing up in your life (and you aren’t even fully aware of it)
- Why this anxious state does not have to be your new normal and you don’t have to accept it
- How we naturally want to avoid this feeling, but then that just perpetuates the cycle
- How to overcome the fear of recurrence and truly thrive after breast cancer
Key takeaways:
- In order to let anxiety go for good, the first step is to stop accumulating more charges
- A three-step system to help you in the moment let the anxiety go
- You are not an anxious person, you are a beautiful person who is experiencing anxiety
Action step:
All of these things can fall into place effortlessly because you are doing them from a place of love, strength, confidence, emotional freedom, and emotional strength
Lauren said:
“ I had embraced the truth of who I was because I was able to let this struggle go and be able to do that. I was finally able to go to scans without having a meltdown beforehand. I could finally read information online for prevention and not be triggered, because I was afraid of what I was missing. I could finally look in the mirror and embrace all of me. I could stop second-guessing all my choices and just enjoy my life in the present moment.”
“I was so open and receptive to making these changes in a way that was so effortless because it was so aligned with the truth of who I was. It wasn't forced, it just, it just felt so easy and I teach you that exact methodology to have it all feel easy.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
I am sharing how to set boundaries without feeling selfish and guilty. Now, after I just finished applying these same steps in my own life I felt really called to share the four steps to setting boundaries without feeling selfish or guilty. Sharing real-life scenarios and how you can apply them today.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- This missing link and the reason why your boundaries never stick (spoiler alert this is step one)
- How to identify what areas or people or situations in your life require boundaries
- Why your voice a powerful energy center and how to use it to set boundaries
- How to be consistent in your boundary setting and sticking to them even if it feels uncomfortable at first
Key takeaways:
- Your voice is the most powerful energy center in your body
- Compassion is everything and calling it for yourself allows you to just witness your feelings without judgment
- Stepping up and asserting your needs in a beautiful angelic assertive way that's in alignment with the highest version of you
Action step:
Remain committed to this process and follow these steps as often as you need, because this truly does have the power to radically change your life with compassion and consistency
Lauren said:
“It's not just a surface-level activity that you're doing. You stepping up and setting boundaries around social media or around a person or around your care or around your meals. It's you stepping up and asserting your needs in this beautiful angelic assertive way that's in alignment with the highest version of you. It's actually rewiring the whole subconscious programming that led to people-pleasing and feeling guilty for setting boundaries in the first place.”
“The second someone needed help with something, or there was a party. You know, someone wanted me to make appetizers because I brought the best apps. I would drop everything and I would go. It didn't matter that I wanted and truly needed time to myself. I had said so many times that I was going to say no more and I needed a better self-care practice around saying, no, but I still found it really freaking difficult.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
In today’s episode, I am sharing part one of my ayahuasca healing journey. My goal in part one is to present as much information to you and maybe it plants a seed in your consciousness. Which will help you to make informed decisions about what's right for you and for your healing journey. You can also still enrol for BCT join here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- My experience and why I chose to make this apart of my healing journey
- What exactly is Iowaska and my health disclaimer to you
- The ceremony and how everything flowed
- How your subconscious becomes your conscious
Key takeaways:
- We can always continue to evolve, grow, and expand
- We're exactly where we're meant to be right now
- Trust everything that is happening to you is for your highest good
Action step:
It’s time to totally love and accept every single part of you
Lauren said:
"It's like you have so much clarity and you're so aware. Everything is very present. It's not like you can't remember stuff. It's totally the opposite of being drunk. It’s even like the opposite of being high, it's like you have conscious thought, but you're also like accessing parts of your brain that you've never been able to access where you're also accessing your subconscious.”
“I know I'm just scratching the surface of who I can become because I truly see the limitlessness of what we are capable of as human beings on this earth, as we are just like spiritual beings given this human body. Because we are, you know, connected to spirit, we connect to God. We are connected to the universe. We can always continue to evolve, grow and expand. So I love where I'm at and I love that.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Join The Next Round Of BCT - Still Open For Enrolment
In today’s episode, I am sharing the second part of my two-part series all about my ayahuasca healing journey. In the second part, I am going to talk even more about the retreat and how I booked a second. I am also sharing my obsession with plant medicine and share my personal experience. You can also still enrol for BCT join here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why I booked a second retreat and I could not be more excited
- I am planting the seed and sharing my personal experience with plant medicine
- Every human requires a balanced masculine and feminine energy
- How I realized I wasn’t truly forgiving and I was only hurting myself
Key takeaways:
- You are so worthy of a healthy body and you are a healthy body
- When we naturally are in alignment with who we are. Then we naturally and effortlessly do the things that we need to
- Answer the call to things you are naturally being compelled to
Action step:
I teach my clients it’s be, do, and have. The first step is we have to just be
Lauren said:
“I realized that if I'm not forgiving, I'm only hurting myself because I'm still carrying a wrecking ball around behind me. I'm still just filtering every experience in my life through these blinds. As just a victim and as all of these things. And I'm only hurting myself.”
“Everything else was just like this download, like you are so worthy of a healthy body. You are a healthy body, like all of these things. Then after that healing circle, I was just like, never been happier my whole life. I truly just felt like my body became a new body. It was like the energy that I always wanted to have, the way I wanted to respond to stress.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Join The Next Round Of BCT - Still Open For Enrolment
Being triggered like that and having all of the fear and anxiety around food and research constantly isn’t thriving. That's surviving and that's not living. Over here at Breast Cancer Thriver we are about growing through that transcending beyond that and taking radical responsibility for your life. Taking back your power and thriving. This is exactly why Sophie, a graduate of BCT is the perfect guest to share her tips on thriving after breast cancer. Join BCT today!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Looking at your prevention plan and really seeing what’s missing
- Taking back your power and owning it
- Why we can let go of anxiety and how that will help us live fully
- How you can take responsibility of your prevention and thrive
Key takeaways:
- Surviving doesn’t always mean thriving
- Looking at your prevention plan with love and curiosity to close any gaps in your plan
- It’s ok to ask for help and allow someone else to help you thrive
Action step:
This is your year of transformation, letting go of the fear of the pas,t and claiming your healthy, abundant future because it's yours
Sophie said:
“I just kind of felt really alone. I just didn't really feel like I could speak to any one of my age that would kind of understand. I remember looking online, I was going into internet forums, counsellor forums and the terminology was quite negative. I just really just didn't know what I was doing.”
“You are more powerful and stronger than you think you are. Just follow your heart and let your heart guide you. Just step into your higher power. You can do anything that you want to do. ”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Join The BCT 12 Week Prevention and Thrivership Course
It’s time to let go of the fear, all of the stress, anxiety, and pretending to be fine. Let’s lock that back up in 2020 for good and walk into 2021 like the queen you are! I am sharing my top ten things I do for prevention to help you close that door for good! Apply to join the next round of Breast Cancer Thrivers!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How to start to regain the sense of control over your body, your life, and your health
- Cutting out the guilt when it comes to eating and our nutrition plan
- Why it’s important to expand your mindset, beliefs on what’s possible, and thrive
- How to leave the resistance and really trust yourself and everything you are doing
Key takeaways:
- You can’t change a body that is resistant to change
- It’s time to do something you’ve never done but this can lead to thriving
- It’s important to rebuild that trust with your body
Action step:
Learn to really purge and let go of the anger, the resentment, and the sadness. To really start thriving in life after breast cancer.
Lauren said:
“There are things that happen in life after breast cancer, that truly do suck and there's challenges and I'm not putting rainbows and roses on this telling you it's all okay. There's challenges. But when you live in that space of the challenge, and this is hard, this is why it's always going to be like this.”
“Just pretending it doesn't exist until the next scan comes up, or you have to think about it again because that's not living. That's surviving. That's not thriving. And we didn't do all of this work in the first seven steps to just survive. We did all that to thrive. AB, and that is what we're going to do.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthrive
Apply To Join The Next Round Of BCT
Learn To Thrive In 2021 With This Free Workshop
What if we could feel good, live effortlessly, and live a life where we be, do, and have! Today I am sitting down with Sophie one of the first students in BCT who joined the very first round in October 2019. We are going to talk about how sustainable this life can be and how we can set goals and intentions going into next year! Join Breast Cancer Thriver the first round starts January 2021!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How to set goals and intentions for 2021 that are going to set us up for success
- Everything in life comes down to energy and intention
- Three simple steps to manifesting and living the be, do and have life
- How Sophie joined the first round of BCT feeling anxious, skeptical, fearful, and resistant
- The changes Sophie has seen since joining the program including going to scans alone
Key takeaways:
- When you focus on how you want to be and set the intention from there that is where the energy comes from
- You can feel confident in your prevention plan
- You are worthy of a different life that isn’t focused on stress, anciset, and questioning everything
Action step:
Align yourself with how you want to feel, be, do and have. Set your intentions from there and the energy will come from there!
Sophie said:
“The fear of recurrence was so intense that I didn't want to go this past life. And so option B was okay. I'm going to just be very careful, listen to myself, slow down the way I want it to. I was feeling that I was stopping living while the entire society, the entire family was still ongoing. I felt so behind, I felt so incapable, and I felt excluded from society. I needed to do something.”
“I don't want to have this insane level of anxiety and fear. I don't want to make decisions out of fear. So I just continued this program thinking of next year, more long-term and, and every week that I was waiting for those calls and this work, and I was just like learning so much. The way you explained what made it, so easy.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Sign Up For My Free Three Day Nutrition Workshop
Join the next round of Breast Cancer Thriver
It’s time to thrive in your breast cancer prevention plan and a huge part of that is nutrition. Today I am going over the 5 pillars in the nutrition portion of your prevention plan. Join my free three-day online workshop to help you thrive in 2021, I’ll be covering eating for prevention without stress, guilt, anxiety, or decision fatigue, and so much more will be covered! Join here!!!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The five most important pillars when it comes to nutrition and prevention
- How you can incorporate these pillars even during the holidays
- Why it’s time to bring your sexy back and feel good in this next stage
- Simple steps to boost your immunity
- The importance of increasing antioxidants in your nutrition plan
Key takeaways:
- It’s possible for you to become a breast cancer thriver you just have to believe
- Know that it’s ok to ask for help and be willing to get that support
- How to let go of that feeling of being trapped or restricted after breast cancer in any way including your nutrition
Action step:
Create a balance of allowance without guilt and trust, and doing so freely, safely and with trust within your body.
Lauren said:
“I don't want you to ever feel trapped after breast cancer or restricted in any way. It's about creating this balance of allowance without guilt and trust and doing so freely and safely because you have created so much space and so much room for trust and integrity with your body. Because you're focusing on these five things the rest of the time, and even incorporating them during the holiday season.”
“Bringing systemic inflammation down is key and the easiest way to do that is through food. It doesn't matter how many supplements you take. If you're not changing your nutrition and putting in the right anti-inflammatory foods in your body. You'll never have that impact of bringing inflammation down with supplements alone because it's just not how it works.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Sign Up For My Free Three Day Nutrition Workshop
I'm already in the holiday spirit I'm sure you love the holidays too. It's such a fun time of the year, but there's also a lot of treats this time of year. In the years pre COVID there are also a lot of holiday parties that you went to. There was also a lot of temptation everywhere and I am all about living life, being present, and enjoying all of the things that this beautiful life offers especially with food. So today I am sharing my tips you can apply to still enjoy your favourite holiday treats… but also keeping your holistic prevention plan in mind.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- My top three tips you can apply this time of year to enjoy the treats but still keeping your plan in mind
- How we can still enjoy the things we love without having to give something up
- Why our motivation needs to be aligned with our highest best version of ourselves
- Removing the autopilot decisions from your life
Key takeaways:
- Food is just food, dessert is just dessert and it will still be there today, tomorrow, and in January
- Pay attention to your bodies cues and tweak as you listen to those signals
- You don’t have to feel powerless to your cravings and you can still enjoy what you love
Action step:
Learn to listen to what your body is telling you and start to make shifts and tweaks as you go
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Are you ready to thrive in 2021? This FREE online workshop series will give you the tools you need to: eat for prevention without stress, guilt, anxiety, or decision fatigue, Lose weight sustainably (& keep it off!), feel confident in your body & bring sexy back, and de-stress so you have better sleep! Join here!!
Where you can find BCT:
Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
Today I am talking about why emotional health is so important in your prevention plan. I am sharing five steps you can take to rewire your brain and how there's such a clear impact of emotional health on your physical body.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How there is a clear impact between emotional health and physical health
- Why these emotional patterns just feel like they're impossible to change
- The deep inner work to shift out of these very automatic negative patterns that bring on these uncomfortable feelings
- That it's absolutely possible to live with confidence in your health and in your prevention plan
Key takeaways:
- You can live with peace in your mind, and in your body, in your heart trust, in your body's innate capacity to heal and to literally have joy at the forefront of everything
- Stress is impacting your other hormones in a negative way
- You can use these tools in an actual life-changing way that can shift your experience at a deep level
Action step:
Take these five steps to rewire your brain and get out of the stress and fear cycle.
Lauren said:
“You didn't know what you didn't know, but now you do, and you have an opportunity to change and take radical responsibility and ownership for your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. I hope it's clear from this episode that you absolutely can reprogram your beliefs. By doing so you can powerfully change your experience navigating life after breast cancer and completely get you out of the fear cycle.”
“So before I move on and get into the framework, I really just want you to take a deep breath and just say, let it go. Like, we all have limiting beliefs, myself included. It's totally okay. Remember, like it's not a bad thing. They're just things. And. We all have these beliefs, but all they are just subconscious programming, running in the background that was formed at a young age. That's all it is. We don't have to make it mean anything else about us.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
I'm doing an ask me anything episode and I am super excited for it because I'm just beyond grateful every minute of every day for the life I live and the incredible community that I get to lead. I'm truly honored and humbled to be recognized as a leader in the breast cancer community. I can’t wait to get into today’s episode and talk about everything and anything!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- My day to day as a business owner
- How the fears and doubts try to run the show and my tips for stopping that
- Dr. Google and how to not let all the resources and information overwhelm you
- Why I do the dutch test annually
- And so much more!!!!!!
Key takeaways:
- That we are all humans and if we change nothing… nothing changes
- Your new normal does not have to be your new normal
- Finding support is key to thrivership
Action step:
Start to take aligned action and really look deep inside you
Lauren said:
“We're all human. We all have fears and insecurities and doubts, but if you let them run the show, they'll continue to run the show. Nothing changes if nothing changes. And I'm grateful that I chose belief in myself and what's possible over fear. If I acted from circumstance and let fear and insecurity and doubt run the show, BCT probably wouldn't exist.”
“Your new normal does not have to be your new normal. I refuse to. I subscribe to that narrative and I really, um, encourage and empower you to start to think that same way as well. And if you need some support with that, I am absolutely here to help you.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find BCT:
Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Facebook Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
A very common theme that I see most often, the one that really jumped out the most was that you wanted help with triggers specifically on how not to be triggered when you saw someone else's post online. That is why I am sharing my five steps you can do in the moment when you feel triggered and start to compare. This is something I work on with my clients inside my signature Breast Cancer Thriver program.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How to not feel triggered when you view other posts
- Stopping the scan to scan and looking deeper into ourselves
- Finding ways that we can still support our sisterhood and still take care of ourselves
- How life doesn’t have to be an either-or situation
Key takeaways:
- That life can be a both-and situation
- How we can switch our mindset and the tips to do that
- You can support your friends, your community, and yourself
- And really start to live in the present to see a change
Action step:
Take empowered action and do the backend work, stop living scan to scan, do the backend work, and live in the present.
Lauren said:
“Life is not a collection of either or scenarios. It's about choice. It's about abundance. It's about limitlessness. And one of my first mentors pointed out to me, you know, my own either-or mentality. She got me to shift my mindset. From either, or by adopting this mantra, it's not either, or it's both. And, and that was so helpful for me.”
“Stop and breathe and discern what emotion or emotions you're actually experiencing because that will help you heal. Let go, and prevent future spirals. So. It's important to pause, breathe and discern how you actually feel and take action on the emotion that you feel. So is it stress? Is it fear? Whatever it is, identify it.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find Breast Cancer Thriver:
On Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
There is so much fear and confusion around hormones and estrogen. I totally get it because, after a hormonal breast cancer diagnosis at 26, I was terrified of my hormones too. But what I learned over the last five years is that we are biologically wired to fear what we don't know. It’s time to rewire our thinking and become educated so we can no longer fear what we don’t know. Stay Tuned BCT 2.0 is coming in January!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why we are so afraid of what we don’t know
- Estrogen and how balancing it plays a vital role in your health
- How to reduce your exposure to synthetic estrogens
- What exactly are hormones and hormone blockers
Key takeaways:
- It’s so important to educate ourselves and not fear the unknown but rather become educated
- Reducing your stress exposure and looking at natural products (check out my IGTV’s on Instagram @iambreastcancerthriver)
- Thought patterns, negative self-talk, self-sabotaging behaviour, and really just beliefs about our health, our body, and being safe inside our body really affect hormonal health
Action step:
Take radical responsibility for your health, life, and body and take your power back.
Lauren said:
“What I've learned over the last five years is that your hormones aren't the problem. Hormonal imbalances are so simply taking this medicine in isolation without incorporating some other lifestyle changes to address your hormonal imbalance. That's missing a big piece of the puzzle and when you're missing pieces of the puzzle, there are these wide gaps in things you don't understand. It creates more fear, more stress, more anxiety, and contributes in large part to why you feel just really unsupported and kind of stress on a regular basis throughout your prevention plan.”
“You will have a physical body, which, you know, we are addressing with these imbalances, but you also have an emotional and a spiritual body and imbalances in these areas create imbalances in the physical body. So when we're talking about estrogen and balancing estrogen, I want you to understand that it's not just, you know, about the amount that your body makes and what you can eliminate. You know, through food and exercise in these things, it's really understanding that your thoughts, limiting beliefs, negative patterns, self-sabotage all of these things are all affecting the hormonal health and your physical body.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
It’s time to continue to take action in our treatment plans and truly feel competent, safe in your body, living without the fear of recurrence. The first step in feeling like this is nutrition, it’s also the first module in my signature program. Which is why I am offering something I don’t normally do…. module 1 of my signature 12-week prevention and thrivership program as a stand-alone mini-course! You can sign up for the course here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How important nutrition is so a holistic prevention plan
- The effect stress has on other areas of your life
- The three main nutrition plans for breast cancer prevention
- The physical messages your body is sending you
Key takeaways:
- Take inspired action in your prevention plan
- Address the low hanging fruit like nutrition, and you start to feel really confident and safe and supported here in your physical body
- Remember it’s ok to change and adjust things when it comes to nutrition
Action step:
Identify what is causing you stress, worry, and anxiety in your treatment plan
Lauren said:
“In order to get to that place of feeling safe and confident in your body and confident in your prevention plan and living with the daily stress and fear of recurrence on your mind. Again, that is so possible that transportation is so possible, but we have to start with the most accessible place that the stress and the fear is coming from into your world.”
“Now you have information available to you to make an informed choice, you can take empowered action based on what your intuition is telling you. Without fear, you have knowledge now, and knowledge is the precursor to experience. So learn, listen, and take empowered action. Now that you have information and you have a gut instinct, that's something to really, really, really lean into.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Nutrition Prevention Mini-Course
Where you can find Breast Cancer Thriver:
Breast Cancer Thriver’s Instagram: @iambreastcancerthriver
Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook
nutritiousdeliciouslife.com
Today I sit down with Bethany Webb is Yoga Therapist, Cancer Thriver, and Certified Facilitator for The Work of Byron Katie (Mindset Coach). Bethany shares with us her journey on how she thought she was the healthiest she could be till she heard those three little words, you have cancer. We talk about her journey and how five years later she is living her most authentic, fulfilling, joyful, and purposeful life in full integrity with herself. She also has a free copy of her latest book for all you Thrivers! Grab My Guru Cancer on Amazon!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Mindset and how it can be such a powerful tool to carry you through
- The belief system of our subconscious mind and how it works
- Listening to that inner voice in her heard and letting it guide you
- How you can still combine holistic and conventional medicine and celebrate them both as a gift
Key takeaways:
- How important it is to express gratitude for the littlest things like holding your partner’s hand during treatment
- Why it’s so important to change your perspective on how you are looking at things
- How you can turn your pain into purpose
Action step:
Identify your current thoughts on your situation and flip your perspective to see the purpose.
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
A copy of Bethany’s book “My Cancer Guru”
Where you can find Bethany Webb:
Bethany’s Facebook Page
Bethany’s Instagram @bethanywebbyoga
Bethany’s Website bethanywebb.com
Today I am sitting down with Tania Koulakian who is the programs and digital media manager from The Tigerlily Foundation. We are discussing their unwavering commitment to take action, how they show up in really powerful ways and game-changing ways. We are also chatting about spirituality and how that can help us to thrive! Tania shares a glimpse into the Tigerlily’s 2020 virtual spirit retreat! Join the retreat here - https://www.tigerlilyfoundation.org/2020-virtual-spirit-retreat/
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The power of spirituality and how it can affect how we thrive
- The importance of surrounding yourself with a foundation that takes action and makes an impact
- The lapse in care for young women going through breast cancer
- Why we need to advocate, educate, empower, and support young women going through and after breast cancer. Which is exactly what the Tigerlily Foundation does
- How the Tigerlily foundation came to be
Key takeaways:
- How to connect with your spiritual path and why the virtual retreat is the perfect time
- How you can join and help to take inspired actions
- My journey on getting connects with the Tigerlily foundation
Action step:
Become informed and empowered about your health
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini-course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Mukta Cork Yoga Mat
2020 Virtual Spirit Retreat
Where you can find Tania and the Tigerlily Foundation:
Tania’s Instagram
Tigerlily Foundation’s Instagram
Tigerlily Foundation’s Website
Tigerlily Foundation’s Twitter
Tigerlily Foundation’s Facebook
Tigerlily Foundation’s 5K
My Life Is My Legacy
Today I am sitting down with Jasmine and Marissa from For The Breast of us and we are getting to some of the health disparities affecting women of colour in the breast cancer community. Also how it’s Breast Cancer Awareness month but it's also Breast Cancer action month. Make sure October 15th at 8:30 pm est you join #BaddiesTalkBack: The Naked Truth Project 2020 Breast Cancer Action Month campaign. Join here!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Some of the health disparities affecting women of colour in the breast cancer community
- How Marissa and Jasmine's work at For The Breast Of Us to close the gap and make the medical system more inclusive
- And how you as a listener can get in and take action to use your voice to amplify the voices of women of colour in the breast cancer community, to help further their mission and increase their reach and impact
Key takeaways:
- Take empowered action to help make the breast cancer community more inclusive
- Really see and understand that there are these gaps and if we are a community, we can do so much more to really create an inclusive community
- That your voice matters and your actions matter
Action step:
Identify what it is you can do to make sure you take empowered action this month during Breast Cancer action and awareness month.
Marissa and Jasmine said:
“A lot of the literature and things that were written for people that are going through breast cancer weren't written for people of colour. So they're just allowed these constant reminders on our journey that we weren't really being considered part of the conversation.”
“Black women are four times more likely to die from breast cancers then our white counterparts. They're also more likely to be diagnosed younger. They're also more likely to be diagnosed with triple-negative, which is harder to treat. Latinas are more likely to have larger tumours."
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Where you can find For The Breast Of Us:
For The Breast Of Us Website
The Naked Truth Project
For The Breast Of Us Facebook Community
Breast Cancer Baddie Facebook Group
For The Breast Of Us Instagram (@forthebreastofus)
The Breast Of Us Twitter (@thebreastofus)
For The Breast Of Us Youtube Channel
Today we are sitting down with April Smith’s Survivors Nest foundation which strives to encourage unity, security, and love. Tune in to this episode to learn about Survivors Nest, April’s journey with breast cancer and getting diagnosed at a young age, and the inherent bias and discrimination in the health care system.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The inherent bias and discrimination in the health care system
- April's commitment to service, faith, and gratitude, and how she shows up fully for the women that she serves
- Survivors Nest the 501c3 non-profit organization and how to helps so many
- April’s diagnosis and her journey
Key takeaways:
- We are stronger together
- Anytime you want something bad enough, you're going to do whatever it takes to get it
- Adding in fitness and nutrition into your plan
Action step:
Taking small steps that are so actionable that make a big difference.
April said:
“We are stronger together! You have the support of your sister or a nonprofit organization you are much stronger with the support of someone else.”
“I felt it. And huh, but it can't be, it can't be, I didn't even say the word. I'm just like, it can't be. So I went to dr. Google low and behold, dr. Google said that it was nothing. Normally dr. Google will tell you, you’re going to die. But dr. Google told me, Oh, it's just nothing, it's probably just a cyst, you know, wait a couple of weeks and see if it goes away.”
Thanks so much for listening!
Important Announcements:
If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 3 Vital Steps to THRIVE after BC mini course yet, download it now! It breaks prevention and thrivership down into the 3 vital steps you need to focus on, cuts through the confusion of all the conflicting information on the interwebs, and provides clear and actionable information so that you feel confident in your prevention plan. You will love it!
If you’re looking for an amazing community to connect with and a group of women that are all on their journey to healing and want to feel confident in their prevention plan, join our Breast Cancer Babes Community on Facebook.
Connect with me over on Instagram, @iambreastcancerthriver. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.
Links I mention in this episode:
Survivors Nest
Jessica Filloon
Where you can find April Smith:
Survivors Nest
Survivors Nest Instagram (@thesurvivorsnest)
I am sitting down with Joi Bowman today. Joi is a breast cancer thriver who was diagnosed when her son reached his nine-month milestone. Joi is a believer in blending holistic with conventional medicine to feel confident in her prevention plan. Joi recently was accepted to the Southwest College of naturopathic medicine and will be completing a master's in clinical nutrition. She can't wait to embrace her new role as a holistic health coach and teach others through her journey. Let’s dive into more about Joi’s journey!
I am sitting down with my client today, Mikaela Becker. She was a student in my signature 12-week group coaching program Breast Cancer Thriver (BCT). We are going to talk about; what made her reach out to join BCT, why she listened to her intuition and joined literally at the last possible minute right when she got back from vacation at the start of the pandemic, and also how her life and confidence has completely changed as a result of the program.
She also shares her favourite takeaway from the course so that you can take action and apply this to your life right now, too. Space is limited for BCT and we start in less than two weeks, but you can applyright now!
You have so many questions and people often wonder what’s next after radiology, after seeing your oncologist for days and days… So we are getting candid with Dr. Ashley Chauvin and no topic is off-limits… including finding your pleasure again.
Feeling lost and out of control is a constant I see with every breast cancer survivor I work with. Tune in to this episode to learn how you can reclaim control of your health, life, and body and feel confident in your prevention plan.
Have you ever thought about intermittent fasting and googled it… but quickly exited because there was just a lot? Maybe you are wondering how your hormones play a role in healthy living and eating too? Tune in to today’s episode where I sit down with author and registered holistic nutritionist Samantha Gladys. We talk about how to safely incorporate intermittent fasting and so much more.
Have you heard of reiki and wondered what it was all about? Have you struggled with body image and owning your femininity after breast cancer? This episode is raw, real, inspirational, informative, authentic and most importantly...actionable.
Do you find it super difficult to stick to your anti cancer diet and the changes you want to make for yourself and your body? This episode talks all about how to make these changes in a way that results in consistent, effortless, and sustainable lifestyle changes that become effortless nd habitual for you.
Have you heard the expression: you grow through what you go through? In my interview with Tina Conrad AKA DJ BreastCancer, we talk all about post-traumatic growth and how she uses her podcast platform as a way to express her creativity, grow personally as a human, and be of service to her community.
Have you ever wondered “what the heck do I eat to prevent recurrence?!” This is a question I’m asked about ALL the time - so this is the topic of today’s episode!
In this introductory episode, I share with you the story of my diagnosis, how I randomly (and thankfully!) discovered holistic healing modalities, and how my soul grabbed on to holistic health and reconnected me to my intuition, and how following my intuition led me here, now - with a successful online business that impacts the lives of breast cancer survivors around the world.