What happens when you're told you have 12 months or less to live, and six years later, you're still here?

On October 11, 2020, I received a stage four metastatic breast cancer diagnosis. Six years later, I'm celebrating being here, continuing to live, grow, and believe in healing.

In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing how my relationship with cancer has changed, why I've been working to let go of the identity of being a cancer patient, and what it means to choose love over fear when making decisions about my health.

We talk about belief, manifestation, medical care, daily mindset practices, financial abundance, and the importance of receiving support.

I'm also sharing the vision I hold for a future celebration of having no evidence of disease.

Believing in healing doesn't mean the journey will be easy or that there won't be setbacks. It means choosing how you want to live while you continue to show up for yourself.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

What if life after breast cancer could be more than just getting back to normal?

This week, I'm joined by four incredible women I've coached for more than six years. They've experienced different stages of breast cancer, different challenges, and different paths to healing. But they all have something powerful in common: they've learned how to create lives they love after diagnosis.

We talk about the emotional aftermath of breast cancer, learning to set boundaries, trusting yourself with difficult decisions, and discovering that taking care of yourself isn't selfish.

From choosing reconstruction eight years after diagnosis to learning how to live fully with metastatic breast cancer, these women share what it really looks like to move forward.

You don't have to go back to who you were before breast cancer. You get to decide who you want to become next.

Meet the Women:

Avril shares how changing her thoughts transformed her relationship with breast cancer.

Robin Scalzo shares how she learned to value herself, set boundaries, and create a healthier life.

Linda Ford shares why healing doesn't have a deadline and why it's okay to change your mind.

Sherry Henderson shares how she continues to find purpose, connection, and hope while living with metastatic breast cancer.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

What if October, the month that can feel like it belongs to everyone but us, held something just for you?

Every single day of October, a woman living with metastatic breast cancer is being handed $500, no application, no criteria, no proof of need, just to go do something that makes her feel alive.

My guest this week is Elissa Kalver, diagnosed 34 days before her daughter's first birthday, who started the world's first nonprofit gift registry for cancer patients from her fifth round of chemo.

You deserve to live, not only to stay alive. This one is an invitation to let yourself believe that.

Meet Elissa: stage four breast cancer thriver, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of We Got This: How I Learned to Thrive with Terminal Cancer. Founder of the nonprofit wegotthis.org.

Meet Elissa:

Follow Elissa Kalver on Instagram

Follow We Got This on Instagram

Nominate yourself or someone else for the Be Like Brittany Fund (nominations close on the last day of September)

Visit wegotthis.org for the gift registry, resource directory, and recommendation shop

Resources Mentioned:

Download for Iphone.

Download for Android.

Work with Laura.

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

How many times have you said, or heard yourself think, I did all the things?

We follow the protocols, take the supplements, change the food, and quietly believe that if we just do it well enough, we will be safe. So what happens when the body does something we did not sign up for anyway?

In this episode, I sit with three truths that sound heavy at first and actually set a lot of us free.

The goal is not to convince yourself that nothing bad will happen. It is to become the woman who knows she can live fully without knowing what comes next.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

When the scan comes back clear, does the thought of cancer actually leave with it?

For so many of us, the answer is no. The disease can be gone from the body while the identity of being a person with cancer quietly stays behind.

This episode started with a question a friend asked me over dinner, one that made me look closely at what really happens to who we are after a diagnosis.

Cancer can be something you are managing without being the identity you are living from.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

Why is it that you can know exactly what would help you feel better, and still not do it?

You already know to eat real food, to move your body, to rest. Knowledge was never the missing piece. So what is?

In this episode, I share the moment I realized I needed a lifeline, and the thing I come back to again and again: lasting change is not built on willpower. It is built on quietly becoming the person who can hold the thing you say you want.

You do not need another rule. You need to become the person the rule was never able to create.

Resources Mentioned:

Take the free Sugar Challenge here:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/sugar

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

How do you know whether it is time to push forward, hold steady, or give yourself permission to stop?

Most of us never ask. We just keep pressing, adding the next hard thing, without checking whether we have the reserves to carry it.

In this episode, I borrow a simple idea from metabolic wellness and show you how it maps onto the way we live, and I get honest about what it looked like to let myself pause without guilt.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is make space.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/offers/iEbrAWpd/checkout

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect!
If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer