Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach
Laura Lummer

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- 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 - Some seasons feel less like a smooth path and more like a dark little roller coaster you did not buy a ticket for.
I am recording this one from the middle of a wild stretch, and I decided to bring you along honestly, right where I am.
I share the health scare that landed me somewhere I did not plan to be, and I do not tidy any of it into a neat lesson.
What I really want to talk about is the difference between believing you need fixing because you are broken, and choosing to grow because you simply want more of your life.
Your life can be a wild ride and still be one you are grateful to be on.
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 - Have you ever looked at another woman's life and felt that quiet ache of why her and not me?
Most of us have, and most of us judge ourselves for it before we ask what that feeling is really pointing to.
In this episode, I open up about a recent day when I was just plain tired of being the person with cancer. I let myself feel it honestly, without rushing to a gratitude list, and then I found the question underneath it that actually moved me forward.
We look at what jealousy and envy are often hiding, why they are not the character flaws we assume, and how believing someone else simply had it easier can quietly protect us from taking a single step toward what we want.
I also walk through the difference between an explanation and an excuse, because one keeps the door open and the other closes it. You will leave with a simple process you can use the next time comparison shows up.
Her success does not take anything from you. Your life is still yours to build, right where you are standing.
Resources Mentioned:
Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health
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
💌 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 - Have you ever said you wanted one thing, while quietly holding on to the very habits that keep it out of reach?
Most of us have. We say we want peace and then overcommit. We say we want joy but promise ourselves we'll feel it later.
This episode releases during a rare stretch of the year, and I want to walk into it with you. Then we turn it inward. Where in your life are you saying one thing and living another?
This is a space free of judgment, only honesty and kindness, and the chance to choose again.
Because just because you cannot see the change yet does not mean nothing is moving.
Referenced in this episode:
NASA's August 2026 skywatching guide:
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/whats-up-august-2026-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
NASA's eclipse information:
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026/
Six-planet observing guide:
https://starwalk.space/en/news/planetary-alignment-august-12-2026
Resources Mentioned:
Get your FREE Lion's Gate Intentional Energy Reset Guide:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lion
Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health
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
💌 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 being disease-free isn't the same as being healthy?
Many of us think we're healthy as long as our scans look good or our lab work falls within normal ranges. But health is much bigger than a diagnosis.
In this episode, I share a different way to think about disease, health, and healing, and why the choices you make every day have a powerful influence on how well your body functions and how you experience your life after breast cancer.
Resources Mentioned:
The Feel Good Reset:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/feelgood
Work with Laura:
https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health
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
💌 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
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About Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach
Laura is a Certified Life, Health, Nutrition Coach, and Wellness professional.
She's a two-time breast cancer survivor living with metastatic disease.
Laura supports women in dropping their warrior shield after a diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer so they can release the pressure to go back to normal and create a life that's even better than before breast cancer.
These twice-weekly episodes give you tools you can apply to your life today, to support your body and your mind as you manage life after breast cancer.
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