As the year comes to a close, Laura reflects on a powerful pattern many women experience after breast cancer: feeling like an observer in their own life rather than an active participant.

In this episode, Laura explores how trauma, uncertainty, constant stimulation, and comparison can lead to disconnection and low-level dissociation. She explains why stillness is often avoided, how the nervous system actually resets, and why intentional living is key to reclaiming agency after cancer.

This conversation is an invitation to move out of autopilot, reconnect with your body and values, and step back into your life with intention as you move into a new year.

Topics Covered:

• Disconnection and dissociation after breast cancer

• Passive coping and its impact on healing

• Why distraction does not create safety

• The role of stillness in nervous system regulation

• Intentional living as a path back to participation

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In this episode, I sit down with Kristie Howlett, NP, to talk about a topic so many women worry about but rarely get complete information on. Kristie brings her years of oncology and integrative experience into this discussion about bone health, estrogen changes, metabolic influences, and the difference strength training truly makes.

I loved the way Kristie explained how muscle communicates with bone, why sunlight and circadian rhythm matter more than most women realize, and what she routinely sees in her practice when women finally receive personalized support rather than a blanket recommendation for calcium. This is a conversation every survivor deserves to hear.

Resources: Smart Scale Laura uses and recommends. DMinder app. Howlett Integrative Cancer Center

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What does abundance really mean when you are healing from cancer?

In this episode, Laura talks with cancer survivor and health coach Hayley Dubin about manifestation, mindset, intuition, and the small actions that create meaningful change.

About Hayley Dubin: Hayley is a Certified Health Coach, Metabolic Terrain Advocate, and founder of reVIVE Wellness. She is also the host of The Cancer Liberation Project Podcast. As a 27-year ovarian cancer survivor, she supports people who have completed treatment or who have a strong family history of cancer. Her work focuses on helping clients release fear and step into confidence as they take ownership of their health.

Links:

Manifestation Quiz: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/manifestation-block-quiz

Living With Intention 2026 Workshop: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/2026

Andy Campbell | Finding Strength in the Storm: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andy-campbell-finding-strength-in-the-storm/id1575422482?i=1000713564225

Hayley Dubin Links:

Website: www.revivewellness.com

Free Gift: 7 Top Tips to Keep Cancer Away and Feel Confident in Your Body Again!

Podcast: The Cancer Liberation Project

Social Media: Instagram Facebook Linkedin

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After breast cancer, many women stay stuck in patterns of hypervigilance, overthinking, poor sleep, and emotional overwhelm without realizing the deeper cause: their body doesn't feel safe.

In this episode, we explore: • How the nervous system processes safety • Why childhood patterns affect you today • Why fear of judgment activates the same pathways as physical threat • How safety influences digestion, sleep, inflammation, and healing • Daily practices that shift your body out of protection and into presence

This is a powerful conversation for anyone who feels tired, wired, stressed, or stuck in old patterns—especially heading into the holidays.

Listen and learn how to help your body feel safe again.

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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In this episode, Laura speaks with three-time stage-four cancer survivor Paloma Soledad, the creator of Luxcare Clothing, chemical-free, Sun-safe, adaptive, and sustainably made pieces designed for women in cancer treatment and recovery.

Paloma shares her story of immunotherapy, lymphedema, and living in a post-cancer body, and how her background in fashion led her to create clothing that honors both comfort and beauty.

Topics include: • How cancer inspired her slow-fashion brand • The hidden chemicals in fabrics and why they matter for survivors • UPF 50+ fabrics and sun safety during treatment • The emotional impact of clothing during recovery • Meditation, healing, and living fully after cancer

Listen now + shop Luxcare Clothing:

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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