In this heartfelt episode, I share a story of one of my clients who chose to live as if she was cured—even while waiting for a PET scan. Her courage and clarity inspired this conversation about mindset, belief, and the science behind choosing peace in uncertain moments.


We’ll explore:

The difference between what’s true and what fear tells us

The emotional and biological cost of staying in survival mode

Studies that show how belief and agency improve healing outcomes

How to anchor into peace with simple daily practices

Why the story you tell yourself is powerful medicine

Plus, I’ll leave you with a reflective journal prompt to help you shift your mindset the next time fear creeps in.

This is a must-listen for breast cancer survivors and anyone learning to live in the space between healing and uncertainty.


Mentioned Studies:

Leedham et al., 1995 – Health Psychology
Taylor & Armor, 1996 – Journal of Personality
Hack et al., 2005 – Patient Education and Counseling


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#423 How to Live Cured Even In Uncertainty?

Why does it feel so hard to hear yourself when life gets busy—especially during breast cancer recovery? In this episode:

The science of stress, sleep, and comfort eating

Why white space is not a luxury but a recovery tool

Four research-backed ways to restore energy and balance

Practical if-then scripts to protect your health this season

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
 

Creating a Life You Love in 168 Hours a Week: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/168-hours-sp
 

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#428 Breast Cancer and Stress - How to Protect Your Energy in the Last 90 Days of the Year and Beyond

Biological dentistry goes far beyond cavities and cleanings—it’s about understanding how your mouth connects to your entire body. In this episode, Dr. Toni Engram explains how the oral microbiome impacts inflammation, hormones, digestion, and even healing from chronic illness.

We cover:

Why dental materials (like mercury fillings and fluoride) matter for long-term health.

How to safely approach dental care during cancer treatment.

Everyday practices—like nutrient-dense food, flossing, and tongue scraping—that protect oral and systemic health.

Listen now and discover how supporting your oral health can support your healing.

 

Learn More About Dr. Toni Engram:

Website: https://www.flourish.dental/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtoniengram

 

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#429 Dr. Toni Engram and the Whole - Body Benefits of Biological Dentistry

Healing doesn’t begin with shame—it begins with honesty. In this episode, I share why telling yourself the truth is the most powerful first step in creating health and joy after breast cancer.

You’ll hear:

Why judgment keeps us stuck in old patterns

How curiosity creates opportunities for growth

A simple framework to reflect on your strengths and challenges

My personal story of facing the truth and finding healing

When you pair honesty with compassion, you’ll see just how much power you have to create a body you love and a life you trust.

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
Creating a Life You Love in 168 Hours a Week: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/168-hours-sp
 

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#430 Healing Starts with Honesty

October is a complicated month for so many of us touched by breast cancer. Pink ribbons are everywhere—sometimes they feel celebratory, other times they stir up fear, grief, or difficult memories. Both experiences are real, and both deserve to be honored.

In this episode, I invite you to see October through a different lens. Instead of focusing only on awareness, what if we made it about aliveness? I talk about how prevention deserves as much energy as detection, why metastatic breast cancer looks very different today than it did 10–15 years ago, and how daily acts of self-love—like steadying blood sugar, protecting sleep, or moving your body—can transform both health and quality of life.

This conversation is about shifting from fear to empowerment, from bracing for bad news to showing up fully for the life that’s happening right now. Think of it like a rhinestone ribbon—multi-faceted, sparkly, unapologetically alive.

🎧 Listen in and let this October remind you: you don’t have to wait for the other shoe to drop. You can choose yourself, today.



Explore more support:

Metabolic Health Day:
https://metabolichealthday.life/
Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
Creating a Life You Love in 168 Hours a Week: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/168-hours-sp



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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.

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#431 Shine Through October -  Prevention, Metastasis and Living Fully

Being cancer-free doesn’t always mean we’ve healed. After 14 years of managing cancer, I’ve learned that healing is about more than scans and lab results—it’s about reclaiming joy, peace, and meaning in the present moment.

In this episode, I share stories of women who stopped waiting for permission to live and how research shows that hope, gratitude, and laughter can support real healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
Creating a Life You Love in 168 Hours a Week: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/168-hours-sp
 

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.

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#432 Celebrating Milestones Beyond Scans and Labs

Back from Metabolic Health Day, I’m joined by client and Terrain Advocate-in-training, Katie Resor, to share the most use-today insights: energy and fatigue through a metabolic lens, nature and circadian rhythm, simple detox wins, EMF practices that fit real life, and the vendors/tests we loved.

You’ll also hear reflections on community, hope, and why health is a terrain we tend—not a finish line.

Show links include the conference recordings and resources we mention.

 

Explore more support:

Grab your copy of the Metabolic Health Day conference recordings here:
https://mtih.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/mtih/product.jsp?product=1&https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/metabolic-health-coaching-m

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
 

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.

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#433 Metabolic Health Day Insights with Katie Resor

When we try to protect others from our pain, we often end up isolating ourselves. In this episode, Laura Lummer, The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach, shares her concept of the protective barrier — the invisible wall that forms when we hold our emotions in and pretend everything is “normal.”

Through the lens of radical transparency and supported by research on emotional expression, Laura explains how honest communication reduces stress, strengthens immunity, and builds trust with our champions — the people who love and support us through it all.

Listen and learn how vulnerability can be one of the most healing tools in your recovery.

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
 

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

👩‍💻 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

#434 Breaking The Protective Barrier - The Healing Power of Radical Transparency

When you’ve lived through breast cancer, life often feels like a mix of opposites — gratitude and fear, healing and side effects, joy and grief. In this episode, Laura shares what it means to hold space for both the good and the hard, and how allowing energy to flow supports both emotional and physical healing.

She explores the science of psycho-neuro-immunology, the lymphatic system, and fascia, and connects it to traditional healing wisdom about flow and stagnation.

Learn how to create physiological safety, release stored emotions, and find balance in the space between the light and the dark.

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
 

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.

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#435 Finding Balance and Flow in the Middle of The Good and The Bad

Why do we keep holding on to things that don’t serve us—relationships, habits, or clutter that drains our energy? In this episode, Laura Lummer explores how the brain’s desire for safety keeps us clinging to what’s familiar, even when it hurts us.

You’ll hear about two fascinating studies on the psychology of familiarity and habit formation, and learn how awareness, curiosity, and small acts of release can help you create space for what’s truly meant for you.

💬 “Comfort feels safe, even when it’s not healthy. But awareness is what frees you.”

Join Laura inside the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Membership to keep doing the deep work of alignment and healing.

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
Becoming You 2.0 Program: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/you
 

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

👩‍💻 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

#436 Breast Cancer Recovery and The Block of Familiarity

In this episode, Laura explores a question that often brings women more confusion than clarity: “What is my purpose?” Drawing from her own reflections and from coaching breast cancer survivors, she reframes the conversation around a far more supportive question: “Am I living on purpose?”

You’ll hear how intentional living supports cognitive health, stress resilience, emotional wellbeing, and metabolic healing after breast cancer. Laura breaks down the psychology and neuroscience behind purposeful living, explains why so many of us resist it, and shares simple, doable ways to build intention into your daily life.

A perfect episode for the end of the year as you reflect on how you’ve lived and how you want to live moving forward.

 

Listen in to learn:

-Why chasing a single “life purpose” keeps so many women stuck after breast cancer

-How intention, not pressure, supports healing in the brain and body

-What research really means when it talks about “purpose in life”

-The three layers of living on purpose—awareness, alignment, and action

-Why intentional living feels vulnerable and how to begin gently

-How small, daily choices create a meaningful and aligned life over time

 

Explore more support:

Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lifecoaching
Creating a Life You Love in 168 Hours a Week: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/168-hours-sp
 

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

👩‍💻 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

#423 How to Live Cured Even In Uncertainty?

Laura Lummer

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