Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

What happens when treatment ends, the scans are clear, and everyone expects you to feel grateful… but you don't feel like yourself anymore?
My guest this week is Jondrea Phelps, a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, coach, and founder of JP Empowerment and Flatties Wear.
After her breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, treatment, and being told she was cancer-free, Jondrea discovered that the "after" of breast cancer can bring its own grief, fear, anger, identity changes, and uncertainty.
We talk about what it means to stop trying to get back to normal, how HypnoBreathwork® helped Jondrea process what she was carrying, and why healing can be about moving forward into a new version of yourself.
You don't have to pretend everything is okay just because you made it through.
 


Meet Jondrea:
Jondrea Phelps is a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, coach, and founder of JP Empowerment and Flatties Wear. After walking through her own breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, treatment, and the complicated emotional aftermath of being told she was cancer-free, she discovered that healing doesn't end when the scans are clear.

Through JP Empowerment, Jondrea supports women navigating the "after" of breast cancer, the part that doesn't always get talked about. The identity shifts. The grief. The anger. The fear. The disconnection from a body that may look and feel completely different. And the pressure to simply be grateful that you survived.

Using HypnoBreathwork®, Jondrea helps women move beyond only talking about their pain and begin to physically release what they've been carrying. Her approach is honest, compassionate, and refreshingly no-bullshit: you are not broken, you don't need to be fixed, and you don't have to pretend everything is okay just because you made it through.

She is also the founder of Flatties Wear, an adaptive clothing brand created to help women feel seen, comfortable, and empowered in bodies that have changed after breast cancer.
Jondrea's message is simple: Your pain is not the end of your story. It can become a doorway back to yourself and into a life that feels like yours again.
 


Her book:
Sh*t Happens, Breathe Through it: Practical tips for the Challenges Life Throws at You.
https://link.amazon/B0jaexEW0
Her Website:
http://jpempowerment.biz/
Instagram:
@jondrea_Phelps
Women to Watch Panel:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-woman-youre-becoming-is-waiting-on-one-decision/id1461493937?i=1000784496397
 


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.
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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