Episode 58 Shownotes - A Compelling Reason to Live Healthy
You are listening to Best Life After Cancer, Episode Number 58. Today, I will talk about my “why” that helps me follow my plans for healthy eating and limiting alcohol. This is a necessary step to help you create a plan and stick to it!
Hey, friends! We are just getting home today from a week in Maine with my parents, my family, and my brother and his family. We have gone to the same place in Maine every year since I was born, and I think I only missed 2 summers - one during medical school, and one when I was pregnant with the twins - they were born in August, and before that, I was too uncomfortable to sit in the car for 9 hours, and after, we were trying to survive newborns! We did go when Miles was born, also in August. We went up when he was only 10 days old, which I have to say was maybe a bit crazy. This annual tradition is part of what keeps me centered and whole - a respite of sorts. 10 days, no tv, no...
Episode 31 Shownotes - If Thoughts Are Optional, Why Do We Choose Ones That Make Us Feel Awful?
You are listening to Best Life After Cancer Episode 31
Well, hey, friends! I am so happy to chat with you all today! I hope you have had wonderful holidays, despite all the changes in life currently. I had a great Christmas, but I admit, I let my brain convince me that NYE sucked because we couldn’t do what we always do. I ended up missing out on a great night with my husband and kids because I was in that space, so I know one of the places I have my work cut out for me in the next weeks! As we start out this new year, I want to acknowledge where so many people are after cancer. If you finished treatment, and it felt like you were sent out into the world with a “It’s all wait and see” and “Make a follow up for 6 months” and you felt lost and terrified, you are not alone. This is so common. If you want to feel like there is something you have control over to decrease recurrence, but are unsure what, I hear this so often. If you are living in fear,...
Episode 30 Shownotes - Holiday Expectations and Why They Are Challenging
You are listening to Best Life After Cancer Podcast Episode 30!
Well, hey, my friends, how are you today? When this podcast is released, I will be off with my family, enjoying some time away where we can be outside and have a white Christmas, but I wanted to have this ready for you to listen to. This is the first time we will be away from home at Christmas since we had kids. It is the first year that officially no one believes in Santa (although I am pretty sure my youngest was paid by his siblings to keep up the show for a while, but that is another story). Because so many of our usual holiday events were not possible due to Covid, we decided to change things up and go away, and create some new traditions. And, oh, my brain has so many thoughts about that. So today is part of the “working on your brain” aspect of living your best life after cancer. I think for so many, emotions are more heightened after cancer, and the holidays are times when emotions are running high...
Episode 25 Shownotes - What Can You Create with Self Coaching?
You are listening to Best Life After Cancer, Podcast 25.
Hi, My Best Lifers and Welcome Back! Hope you had a great Halloween weekend. We had a trunk or treat for my youngest son's grade, with all of the kids and adults masked, to try to keep everyone a bit safer, and it was fun to chat with the adults around the bonfire, while the kids ran around laughing. Seemed almost normal, despite the steadily rising Covid numbers across the country. We got to see my oldest row in a regatta against one other school, and Miles played his last soccer game in the pouring rain.
It is interesting, in my household, there are varied emotions about Fall. Fall is my husband and two of my sons’ favorite seasons. They love the cooler weather and Football. For me, I have long said that Fall was my least favorite season, and Fall with Covid seems like the worst of the worst. Or is it? How do these thoughts affect my experience in life? This week, I was reading an email from a fellow coach, Simone...
Episode 3 Shownotes - How Our Primitive Brains Mislead Us
Hello, my best lifers, and welcome to Episode 3! I am so excited to get to talk to you again today! Today is really cloudy and super windy, but this morning, my husband and I got up and went for a quick walk with our two young dogs. We have a yellow lab and a german shepherd, both of which are under a year old, so they are less destructive if they get some exercise. It started to rain just as we got home, so I was feeling lucky that the world played nice and let us get our walk done instead of pouring on us. Now I am refreshed and ready to get down to work. I wanted to do a quick refresher before we started today. In the first podcast, we talked about allowing our emotions, leaning into them, instead of avoiding, resisting or reacting to them. It is a skill that takes time, and I hope you are making some progress. The second week, we talked about the difference between thoughts and circumstances, and how to start to be more aware of what the thoughts are that are causing the...
