Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

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

 



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💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community
👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach
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Have you ever told yourself you'd get to it later, when there was more time, more money, more room?
Most of us have. And most of us never stop to ask what the waiting is costing us.
There is a question your brain reaches for first when you think about changing something in your life, and it is almost always the wrong one. In this episode, I offer you a different question, one that shifts everything from what you might lose to what you are willing to build.
We look at why healthy changes so often fail to stick, and it has nothing to do with willpower. I also share research on why women stop investing in their own care, and a moment with a client living with stage four disease that changed how I think about planning a future.
If money is genuinely tight, I name real organizations that exist to help, and one resource almost no one uses.
Where did we learn that taking what we need means taking it from someone else?
Your life is being built right now, between breakfast and lunch today.
 


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

When was the last time you let yourself want something without immediately talking yourself out of it?
So many of us learned early on to keep ourselves small. Then a diagnosis arrives, and that quiet voice telling you not to ask for too much gets even louder. Have you ever found yourself making silent deals, promising to be content with less as long as you get to stay?
I overheard a conversation at my kitchen table more than forty years ago that shaped what I believed I was allowed to want. What would it feel like to spot that same voice in your own life and realize it was never telling you the truth?
This episode gives you a way to hold your gratitude and your wanting in the same two hands, without guilt and without apology. And let me be clear about what this is not. No one is sick because she did not believe hard enough.
You will leave with one simple exercise you can do in five minutes today. Your life is allowed to be full. Your wanting is allowed to be loud.
 


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

When was the last time you felt truly inspired?
This episode comes out the day before the 15-year anniversary of my first breast cancer diagnosis, and as I look back over these years, one thing stands out more than almost anything else. Not a diet, not a single protocol, but inspiration.
For a long time, I thought inspiration just showed up on a good day. What I have learned is that I have to go looking for it on purpose, the same way I plan a walk or plan my meals. I have come to believe it belongs in a healthy lifestyle right alongside movement, whole food, and the people closest to us.
In this episode, I share how I use inspiration in seasons that are hard, including rebuilding my strength after nearly four months of pain and medication this spring. When the work feels heavy, I go looking for people who have done hard things and kept showing up, and I let their commitment remind me of what is possible within my own capacity. I also talk about being intentional about what I do not let into my mind, and why protecting my mental space is part of protecting my ability to heal.
Here is my 15-year anniversary challenge to you. Go find one source of inspiration and bring it in on purpose. One thing that helps you believe a little more in yourself and what you can create. And if you do not know where to start, ask yourself, who talks about something I want more of in my life?
Come tell me where you look for inspiration inside the free Living Well After Breast Cancer community.
 


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

July 2026 marks 15 years since my first breast cancer diagnosis. When I sat down to plan this milestone month, I had all these celebratory ideas, and then life happened. I lost people I cared about, a few clients passed, and right as I went to record, our dog of 14 years died. I want to be honest with you from the start. Life is hard, and life is wonderful, and most of the time both are true at once.
That is the heart of this episode. So many of us believe we shouldn't feel joy while something painful is happening, or shouldn't let anything heavy in while things are good. But everything is good and bad at the same time, every single day.
I share a conversation with a newly diagnosed woman who told me she did not want cancer to become part of her identity, and why I gently offered a different way to hold it. I also look back on 15 years that were never a straight line, including how my work evolved, my second diagnosis, and the quiet heaviness I felt when I sensed people hoped I could cure their cancer. That was never my message. My work has always been about wellness, living, and the future you are choosing to create right now.
Here is what I most want you to hear. We are never done living until we are done living. And the foundation for the life you love is not discipline or willpower. It is love, loving yourself enough to care for your body through the hard things and to be willing to feel everything.
Keep an eye out for July 11, when I have a very special announcement coming on the anniversary of my diagnosis.
 


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