You are listening to Best Life After Cancer, Episode 9.

Hello, my best lifers! Hope you are doing well today. It is such a stressful time in the world, and I especially have sympathy for all cancer patients today. Regardless of color, between the pandemic and riots, and all of the hightened emotions, it is a rollercoaster for all people, and having cancer on top of all that is just more challenging than it has been in the past. I am thinking about you, and trying to find ways to make this a little easier.

As I told you last week, I am going to continue with the weight loss work for today, because I really think that managing weight is important from a survivorship perspective. Being overweight or obese is clearly linked to an overall increased risk of cancer diagnosis and we believe also contributes to an increased risk of recurrence in some cancers. According to research from the American Cancer Society, excess body weight is thought to be responsible for about 11% of cancers in...

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...