After cancer or a major life event, many women are left feeling as though they should be “back to normal” by now. That if confidence hasn’t returned, if motivation feels flat, or if life feels different, then something must be wrong.

In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby gently challenges that idea.

You don’t need fixing.

You don’t need upgrading.

You don’t need to rush back to who you were before.

What you may need instead is self-leadership — learning to trust yourself again and lead your life from alignment rather than obligation.

Gabby explores why the “fixing” model can quietly create pressure, guilt, and self-doubt after treatment, and why recovery isn’t about becoming your old self again, but choosing how you live in a body and life that have changed.

This episode is an invitation to step into a quieter, steadier form of confidence — one rooted in self-respect, internal authority, and trust.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

1. Why the idea of “fixing yourself” can be harmful after cancer
2. How identity and priorities naturally shift after treatment
3. What self-leadership really means in life after cancer
4. The subtle but powerful shift from asking “What should I be doing?” to “What supports me now?”
5. How confidence can look quieter, calmer, and more grounded
6. Why rest, boundaries, and pacing yourself are acts of confidence
7. How to stop outsourcing your confidence to expectations and approval
8. Why you are not broken, behind, or failing — you are evolving
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Resources & Links:

1. Book a free clarity call with Gabby: Schedule here
2. Connect with Gabby on Instagram: @gabby.mottershead
3. Visit the website: confidenceaftercancer.co.uk
4. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe here
5. Join Gabby’s weekly newsletter for tips on life after treatment: Sign up here

This episode is for the moments when life feels heavy and you don’t want to talk it through, analyse it, or make sense of it.

You don’t need insight.

You don’t need motivation.

You don’t need to be positive.

You just need a pause.

In this short, gentle episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby guides you through a simple grounding and breathing reset designed to help your nervous system soften and your body feel supported again.

There’s nothing to fix.

Nothing to achieve.

Nowhere you need to go.

This episode is an invitation to rest in the moment exactly as it is. To feel held. To remember that rest is not avoidance or delay, it’s part of healing and integration.

You can return to this episode anytime life feels overwhelming, draining, or too much.

Resources & Links:

1. Book a free clarity call with Gabby: Schedule here
2. Connect with Gabby on Instagram: @gabby.mottershead
3. Visit the website: confidenceaftercancer.co.uk
4. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe here
5. Join Gabby’s weekly newsletter for tips on life after treatment: Sign up here

This episode marks a quiet and meaningful return to the Confidence After Cancer podcast.

Rather than beginning the year with big declarations or rushing back into life, Gabby shares why 2026 started differently for her, shaped by family, reflection, grief, gratitude, and a conscious decision to slow down. Recorded after a deeply emotional New Year spent in St Ives with family, this episode honours love, loss, and the importance of being present before moving forward.

January can come with enormous pressure…new goals, new energy, a “new you.” But for many women, especially those who’ve experienced illness, bereavement, or long periods of holding everything together, this time of year can feel more like emotional jet lag than a fresh start. Forcing motivation on top of exhaustion doesn’t create growth… it creates burnout.

Gabby reflects on the significance of marking 18 years since her cancer diagnosis alongside a recent family loss, and how these moments have reshaped her perspective on time, gratitude, and choice. She explores why gentleness is not weakness, why space can be more powerful than push, and how reframing obligations into choices can quietly transform how we live.

This episode also introduces a subtle but important evolution in Gabby’s work…moving beyond rebuilding after cancer into supporting women who are standing at the edge of their next chapter. Not to be fixed or forced forward, but to lead themselves differently, with alignment, intention, and self-trust.

This is an invitation to begin the year deliberately, not urgently and to ask yourself one simple, powerful question:

What would it look like to support yourself this year instead of pushing or punishing yourself?

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

1. Why a gentle start to the year can be more healing than a rushed one
2. How grief, milestones, and reflection can reshape your priorities
3. Why January pressure often leads to burnout rather than growth
4. The difference between pushing forward and choosing presence
5. How reframing “I have to” into “I get to” can change your relationship with life
6. What it means to live deliberately instead of reactively
7. Why confidence at this stage of life is about alignment, not effort
8. How to begin 2026 with compassion, intention, and self-support

Resources & Links:

1. Book a free clarity call with Gabby: Schedule here
2. Connect with Gabby on Instagram: @gabby.mottershead
3. Visit the website: confidenceaftercancer.co.uk
4. Watch on YouTube: