Michelle went through mastectomies with implant reconstruction, and developed a significant capsular contraction, in part from radiation.  She went on to have a latissimus flap reconstruction to repair this, and is now feeling great and enjoying life.  This podcast was recorded the week before I lost Miles, and it is nice to hear me sounding happy, relaxed and care free ..read more

This is a great, heartfelt, honest look at the treatment for cervical cancer, the long term effects and the stigma of the diagnosis, from a very lovely new mother ..read more

The news is buzzing with all sorts of speculation on the Delta Variant, and social media is abuzz with both those pushing others to get the vaccine and those trumpeting vaccine horror stories.  Who to believe?  In this podcast, I summarize the two things I read and heard lately that I found most useful.  The first is a NYT podcast by Ezra Klein, interviewing NYU medical school epidemiologist Dr. Celine Gounder (listen here:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-celine-gounder.html) and the other is a CNN article by Peter Bregman and Howard Jacobson (read h ..read more

Meredith got triple negative breast cancer in her 30's, when her daughter was 19 months old.  She had a goal of seeing her daughter go to kindergarten.  Now, she is 15 years out, and watched her daughter strike out the top softball recruit in the US!  She tells us her 2 week rule, and why she thinks you need to balance quality of life in treatment decisions ..read more

This episode goes through options for many of the side effects of perimenopause: hot flashes, vaginal dryness, sexual changes, and more. If post cancer, you have been thrust into menopause, help is here ..read more

Our brains have so much wisdom.  We can ask ourselves who we would be if we were at our goals, and then make decisions from that place.  I call this "living as your ideal self" but a client calls it "fake it til you make it".  Either way, it is a technique in your toolkit to help you follow your plans and achieve your goals ..read more

There is so much good to know here - the havoc chronic fear wreaks on our bodies, why we tell patients to avoid blogs, and how some people use fear to their advantage ..read more

This podcast, written and recorded in June, talks about my husband and my journey with his recurrent head and neck cancer, as we waited for testing and surgery, and how I dealt with the struggles of managing my worries while we waited for testing, biopsies, and our surgical date.  Waiting sucks, but there are things you can do to improve your experience ..read more

Understanding how our brains and bodies experience fear can help us know how to manipulate and work with it.  Learn the neuroscience and chemistry of fear in this episode, along with how and why cancer patients in particular struggle with fear ..read more

After loosing my son, Miles in a car accident, my mom unexpectedly from complications of endocarditis, dealing with my oldest son's depression and flashbacks to the accident, and navigating the diagnosis of a vocal cord cancer in my husband, I was struggling to navigate working as well.  I talk today about how to know you need to take time off and what to do with that time ..read more