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.
Episodes
A breast cancer diagnosis can knock the wind out of your confidence.
It’s impossible to know how this type of diagnosis will impact you mentally and emotionally until you’re in it.
As you try to figure out what you need, what you want, and what makes sense, other people’s thoughts and opinions can weigh heavily on your choices for your health and life.
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Do you need supplements? Are you getting enough protein?
These are questions I hear all the time, and the answer is, you don’t know unless you take some time to track your food and you look at your blood work.
However, you can add foods that are high in protein and nutrients, easy for your body to absorb, and support your wellness while helping to reduce pain.
Is love based on your belief of who someone is?
If that’s the case, what are your thoughts about yourself?
Do your thoughts lead you to acts of self-care or self-judgment?
Do they lead you to light and supportive relationships or dependence on external validation?
In this episode, we’ll dig into how your thoughts about yourself ...
Antinutrients and extreme diets get a lot of air on talk shows and social media, but do they stand up to the test of supporting a healthy body?
Maybe?
In this episode, I’ll give you both sides of the story when it comes to food compounds that many recommend avoiding.
More importantly, I’ll offer you a framework to consider when you think about how t...
When you emerge from breast cancer treatment, it’s not uncommon to feel out of alignment with life.
Something about facing our mortality causes us to reevaluate things.
So how do you realign yourself?
Breast cancer and food confusion are real!
We want to be healthy, eat good food, reduce our toxic burden, and be mindful of our budget.
But how do you know what food labels are telling you about the food you’re thinking of buying?
What do all of these labels mean and what’s best for you?
In this episode, we’ll dig into the truth...
Breast cancer and life can have a lot of grief, loss, and fear involved, and we can either use those emotions to create even more suffering, or we can choose to use them in ways that inspire...
Is Breast cancer just bad luck?
Here’s what Breast Cancer UK had to say about that based on a 2015 study published in the Journal of Nature:
“This study confirms what Breast Cancer UK has recognized, that environmental factors such as exposure to toxic chemicals are also key risk factors for certain cancers. It should form part of any ...
There are some things in life that bond people instantly like motherhood or having a cancer diagnosis.
We get each other in ways that people who haven’t shared the experience can never completely understand.
In this episode, I’ll introduce you to Ashlee and Michael Cramer, an incredible mother and son duo that I had the honor of meeting recently and whose message of con...
What does it mean to you to feel grounded?
The Merriam-Webster dictionary says it’s to be mentally and emotionally stable.
In Ayurveda, it means being connected with the Earth’s energy.
However you define it, western science is proving that the practice of grounding, or physically touching the earth may have some remarkable benefits that range from ...
A diagnosis of breast cancer, whether it’s the first one or a recurrence is mind-numbingly frightening.
If it’s the first time you’ve heard the words, “You have cancer.”
It’s not only frightening but it sends you into a world of language, treatments, and experiences that you have no idea how to understand or manage.
In this episode, I’ll clear up so...
A Breast Cancer diagnosis can make the world of nutrition even more confusing and overwhelming than it was before.
Add a bunch of Netflix documentaries to that and you can be left in total fear of food.
Should you be a vegan?
Will meat make you sick?
Is everyone selling a program?
In this episode I’ll shed s...
In my life, it’s hard to think of a more powerless experience (other than childhood) than my first diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
That in itself is traumatic.
But when added to all the powerless and limiting thoughts that you are conditioned to think throughout your life, you can be left feeling like the life you dream about is an impossibility.
There are so many simple, inexpensive ways to care for your body and support your health terrain.
This simple practice, rooted in Ayurvedic medicine, offers a host of potential benefits, from exfoliating dead skin cells to enhancing the body's detoxification process through stimulation of the lymphatic system.
Join me as we explain how to choose the right brush, the bes...
In this podcast episode, we delve into the essential role of acknowledging and expressing anger, and the broader spectrum of our emotions, in maintaining mental and physical health.
Anger is a natural and healthy emotion when approached constructively. By allowing ourselves to feel and express anger, we open the door to understanding our needs and setting necessary boundaries. This process ...
In 2023, the dietary supplements market was valued at approximately $167.5 billion to $177.5 billion.
So it is no surprise when we see headlines touting the latest and greatest new supplement, that its benefits can be overstated and lots of people get caught up in the craze.
Recently, berberine has been getting a lot of social media attention, and since this is a supple...
Does it feel like nothing is going your way?
Do you hear yourself saying you take two steps forward and one step back?
Do you feel like you’re not gaining momentum and as a result, you beat yourself up?
If any of those or anything like that resonates with you, this is an episode you want to listen to.
The fact is, life is always...
A diagnosis of breast cancer can change things for a long time after treatment has ended.
In fact, many life situations can derail you, pile on top of each other and one day you find yourself realizing that there’s very little joy, excitement, or fun in your life anymore.
That’s not a good feeling, but fortunately, there’s a lot you can do about it.
Creating time for fun and joy must be intentional.
Just like most other things, if ...
A breast cancer diagnosis is a crisis that often drives us to rethink our lifestyle and nutrition.
But how do you know which foods are the right foods for...
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