CancerTalks Podcast
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOur mission is to uplift personal stories of transformation from people whose lives have been touched by cancer.
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Notes on Cancer in the Context of Palestine
March 01, 2024 17:31 - 11 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week, Claire writes about Palestine. As of yesterday, more than 30,000 have been killed by the Israeli occupying forces. What does the genocide in Palestine have to do with cancer? When we think about cancer prevention, we think of things like clean air, food and water, access to routine screenings, stress reduction. None of those things are available anywhere in Gaza right now. Please take a moment with me to honor everyone who has died from cancer in Palestine, everyone living w...
Ushering the Soul to Whatever is Next with Deborah Bellen
January 12, 2024 20:58 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBDeborah Bellen is a personal finance coach who helps people understand their emotional relationship with money. Although she is not professionally a hospice nurse, she has been on eleven hospice journeys with loved ones. From a very young age, Deborah saw that death was a very important part of life. In this episode, she shares many moving stories of what it means to walk with someone between life and death. If you enjoy this conversation, please leave a review in your podcast app. Cancer...
Life on the Cancer Train with Megan-Claire Chase a.k.a. Warrior Megsie
December 01, 2023 19:15 - 56 minutes - 137 MBMegan-Claire Chase, a.k.a. Warrior Megsie, is a breast cancer survivor and advocate from Atlanta. Her blog, Life on the Cancer Train, details her experience as a young adult cancer survivor while advocating for better treatment and resources. It's known for being authentic, raw, and informative - with a twist of humor. Megan-Claire is a powerful public speaker, researcher, and published writer. Her work has been featured in various magazines, including Cure Magazine, Elephants and Tea, Can...
Writing about Cancer with Novelist Elizabeth Benedict
November 03, 2023 20:50 - 55 minutes - 128 MBThis week's guest is Elizabeth Benedict - a bestselling author whose novels include Almost and Slow Dancing. Her most recent book is a cancer memoir entitled Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own. Elizabeth's nonfiction spans a range of themes from sexual politics to money to literature and includes The Joy of Writing Sex, which has been the classic reference for writing about sex in fiction for the past 25 years. In this episode, we explore many different ways of understanding the cancer jou...
The Pain in Birth and the Pleasure in Death with Birth/Death Doula Emma King
October 06, 2023 17:49 - 1 hour - 151 MBEmma King is a midwife in the making, a clinical herbalist, almost a nurse, a birth doula for both postpartum and abortion, as well as a death doula. Emma is a white, monied New Yorker who grew up in Manhattan in a home marked by chronic/terminal illness. She is a big, soft-egoed Leo/emotive perverted Scorpio, sometimes a novice tattooer, a bi, incorrigibly contradictory girl, a lover, and a fighter.
Cancer's Gift: A Mother and Daughter's Bond with Claire Jones & Amaranthia Sepia
September 01, 2023 18:07 - 1 hour - 162 MBOur guests this week are Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia. Not only are Claire and Amaranthia mother and daughter, they are also sisters and soulmates. The episode follows the story of their life together, supporting each other through disability. Claire and Amaranthia’s most recent project is called Sista Creatives Rising, a platform for events including their upcoming series "Art & Mind," which showcases creative folk who are underrepresented women and marginalized genders. Claire & A...
Finding Solace throughout Your Cancer Journey with Oncology Social Worker Lisa Petgrave-Nelson
August 04, 2023 20:06 - 52 minutes - 119 MBOur guest today is Lisa Nelson. Lisa was born in Jamaica and raised in Queens, New York. She has worked for many years as an oncology social worker and is also an end-of-life doula. Lisa has a podcast of her own called Diary of a Black Social Worker where she shares diverse narratives of social work practice: Personal triumphs, challenges, education and reflections about the day to day life of an oncology social worker of color. Lisa’s Resource List Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by T...
Our Stories are Our Sovereignty with Sharon Finkel
July 07, 2023 17:26 - 48 minutes - 112 MBOur guest today is Sharon Finkel. Sharon is a New Yorker, born and raised. She is the mother of two young boys and the daughter of Soviet immigrants. Sharon has a long career as a lawyer but her true passion is in health and wellness. Her diagnosis and health care journey have been catalysts for exploration in functional medicine which she has found to be enormously helpful throughout treatment, recovery and the healing process. Beyond Breast Cancer Speaker: Sharon Finkel If you enjoyed...
The Practice of Facing Mortality with Human Rights Lawyer Molly Reno
May 31, 2023 18:59 - 45 minutes - 105 MBIn this week's episode, Cheryl has a beautiful conversation with Molly Reno. Molly is a Somatic Coach with a long history as a Human Rights attorney. After her first encounter with breast cancer, she began leading support groups for cancer patients and became certified in a healing technique called Emotional Brain Training. Molly shares about her experience of staying awake to the cycle of life and death. Like all of us, she finds herself going back to sleep sometimes, but she always seems t...
Building a Cancer-Free Economy with Researcher and Public Health Advocate Polly Hoppin
May 05, 2023 20:04 - 52 minutes - 120 MBClaire invited Polly Hoppin on to CancerTalks to highlight the power and the potential of focussing on cancer prevention, in addition to treatment. Polly co-founded the national Cancer Free Economy Network. The Network shares our vision for a world where no one gets sick from toxic chemicals polluting the places they live, learn, work, and play. CanerTalks just became an Ally member of the network and we’re excited to be part of their amazing work. Polly is also director of the Cancer & Env...
Jimmy Maxwell: Getting Through Cancer with Music and Myth
April 07, 2023 19:15 - 27 minutes - 62.1 MBJimmy Maxwell is a pianist and band leader based in New Orleans who has played a central role in organizing the music of Mardi Gras for decades. He is also a lover of myth and has recently become the audio archivist for the Joseph Campbell foundation. Jimmy's Reading List: The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Murkherjee The Gene by Siddhartha Murkherjee The Hero With a 1000 Faces by Joseph Campbell Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell The Inner Reaches of Outer Space by Joseph Campb...
Illness as an Ally with Philosopher Mark Pingree
March 09, 2023 20:26 - 58 minutes - 135 MBMark Pingree is a PhD candidate in comparative literature with a background in philosophy. Inspired by his experience with cancer, his research explores the possibility that illness and disability offer new ways of thinking about what it means to be human in the age of ecological collapse. He has taught college courses in philosophy, film and literature and is currently also in training to become a psychoanalyst. Mark lives in queens New York with his orange tabby named Phaedo. The cover a...
Living Your Future Today with Entrepreneur Stacey Lawson
February 22, 2023 17:50 - 40 minutes - 92.1 MBOur guest today is Stacey Lawson. Stacey told me that at heart she’s not just a business person or a politician, she’s a change agent. She has been an advocate for climate solutions, the clean energy economy and climate justice across California and at the national level. Stacey also leads workshops on conscious business and leadership. She is currently Vice Chairman of Ygrene Energy Fund and an active board member of The Shift Network and the Institute of Noetic Sciences, among others. S...
We Are Not Separate from Extinction with Maisie Sibbison-Alves
February 09, 2023 20:21 - 50 minutes - 114 MBMaisie Sibbison-Alves is an artist and Shiatsu massage practitioner from Western Massachusetts. For the past ten years, Maisie has made home in many different cities up and down the Atlantic seaboard, organizing around wealth inequality and sharing skills and resources everywhere she goes. Above all, she is a phenomenal friend and one of my favorite people to turn over ideas with. This episode was recorded spontaneously and on an iPhone so you might notice a slightly different audio quality....
The Story You Need to Tell with transformational writing teacher Sandra Marinella
January 27, 2023 19:22 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBSandra Marinella teaches writing as a tool for healing and transformation. For the past decade she has inspired hope among hundreds of veterans and cancer thrivers. Her book is titled: The Story You Need to Tell and is accompanied by storyyoutell.com where you can read dozens of inspiring stories and discover lots of writing tips and tools! This episode contains a reference to sexual assault. Please take care of yourselves and each other. Recommended Reading Man’s Search for Meaning by D...
Reclaiming Indigenous Health with Public Health Researcher Wyatt Pickner
January 13, 2023 20:29 - 1 hour - 152 MBWyatt Pickner is Hunkpati Dakota from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. He is currently the Research Manager at the American Indian Cancer Foundation whose focus is Healing with Culture and Reclaiming Indigenous Health. Wyatt grew up on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, and now lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. He uses his masters in Public Health to improve the well-being of Native communities across the United States. For the past 10 years he has worked with tribes, tribal organizations, an...
Healing Journeys: Surviving and Thriving through the Years with Jan Adrian
December 08, 2022 20:48 - 49 minutes - 114 MBThis is the final episode of 2022! We’ll return in the New Year on January 13th. Our guest is Jan Adrian. Many of you know Jan through our Community Workshops on Zoom, or maybe you had the joy of attending a Healing Journeys conference. Jan was our very first podcast guest. And now, more than two years later, we’re continuing the conversation - touching in on how her own cancer journey has evolved and diving deeper into the story of how Healing Journeys came to be, as well as what it migh...
Creativity as Medicine with Expressive Art Therapist Nandi Szabo
November 25, 2022 19:02 - 46 minutes - 107 MBIn this episode, Nandi Szabo shares what she’s learned through decades of expressive art therapy. Nandi cultivates safe environments where people come together and discover what is seeking expression during the cancer journey. Nandi’s workshops approach the cancer experience from many different angles, starting with an invitation to meet yourself where you are. All of them incorporate some element of movement - moving tension through the body. In her words, “we will think about it, feel ab...
Anger, Depression, and Ritual with Dorothy Paredes of the Atrium Foundation
November 10, 2022 22:24 - 55 minutes - 128 MBOur guest this week is Dorothy Paredes, author of the beautifully candid memoir, 26 & Fucked. Dorothy is also the founder of The Atrium Foundation, an organization that supports people affected by cancer so they can thrive by covering expenses that aren’t covered by insurance, including things that are outside of the realm of medical expenses. Dorothy and her team believe that mental health and wellness is as important as physical recovery. They have supported people with everything fro...
A Sparkle of Hope with PanCan Alum Lisa Gilmour
October 28, 2022 18:46 - 39 minutes - 90.9 MBThis week I talked to Lisa Gilmour who lost her brother to pancreatic cancer. Before he passed, she promised him she would do everything she could to make a difference. We talk about how his illness impacted their family and what it means to cultivate a sparkle of hope. To learn more about the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, go to pancan.org/. If you enjoyed this conversation please leave a review in your podcast app. CancerTalks is a platform for anyone who has been touched by cancer....
The Wonders of Movement with Exercise Oncologist Karen Wonders
October 12, 2022 20:08 - 40 minutes - 92.2 MBKaren Wonders is the Founder of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, and a Professor of Exercise Physiology at Wright State University. She is passionate about advocating for exercise as a component of standard cancer care and a proud mom to her seven children. Karen's Reading List: Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life by Dr. Kathryn Schmitz The American Society of Clinical Oncology's Guidelines for Exercise, Diet, and Weight Management Dur...
Tending to Trauma and Finding Joy with Life Coach Elena Sonnino
September 30, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes - 99 MBOur guest this week is Elena Sonnino - a life coach, speaker, and yoga teacher. Elena’s work is an invitation to unearth, attune to, and embody inner strength and wisdom so we can move through life with curiosity, purpose, and delight. She is the author of Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges. To get a taste of Elena’s coaching work, enjoy this free guided meditation and connect with your truest self. You can connect with Elena and learn more about her work at elenasonnino.com Elena's Readin...
Tending to Trauma and Finding Joy with Elena Sonnino
September 30, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes - 99 MBOur guest this week is Elena Sonnino - a life coach, speaker, and yoga teacher. Elena’s work is an invitation to unearth, attune to, and embody inner strength and wisdom so we can move through life with curiosity, purpose, and delight. She is the author of Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges. To get a taste of Elena’s coaching work, enjoy this free guided meditation and connect with your truest self. You can connect with Elena and learn more about her work at elenasonnino.com Elena's Readin...
Healing the Feminine Line with Jade Sherer
September 16, 2022 00:31 - 55 minutes - 139 MBJade Sherer has devoted her life to showing up for people as they navigate life transitions, big and small. For more than twenty years, she has been a guide for nature-based transformation and holder of ceremonies, as well as a mentor to hundreds of people as they listen for what’s next in their lives. Jade sees soul work and mindful self-reflection as crucial to community building, planetary care, and justice for the creatures of Earth. Jade lives with her four-legged significant other, U...
Healing the Feminine Line with Nature Guide Jade Sherer
September 16, 2022 00:31 - 55 minutes - 139 MBJade Sherer has devoted her life to showing up for people as they navigate life transitions, big and small. For more than twenty years, she has been a guide for nature-based transformation and holder of ceremonies, as well as a mentor to hundreds of people as they listen for what’s next in their lives. Jade sees soul work and mindful self-reflection as crucial to community building, planetary care, and justice for the creatures of Earth. Jade lives with her four-legged significant other, U...
Connecting to the Heart with HeartMath Coach Liz Butler
September 02, 2022 13:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MBThis week, Claire speaks with Liz Butler whose practice is based on the idea that healing occurs when we are able to deepen our spiritual connection. She helps people with cancer and other serious illnesses connect to the wisdom held within our hearts. Informed by her training at the HeartMath institute in California, she has created a pathway to release emotional pain and make way for physical healing which she calls the 'The Heart's Path. She is currently writing a book about the heart tha...
Humanizing Medicine With Anthroposophic Doctor Mark Hancock
August 16, 2022 20:06 - 45 minutes - 104 MBMark Hancock co-founded Humanizing Medicine in Atlanta with the belief that everyone should have access to quality integrative healthcare. In addition to being board certified in family medicine, Mark has immersed himself in many different practices including painting, farming, and philosophy of medicine. Of painting, he says, “The absolute focus on receiving sense impressions in an awake, open, and scientific state of mind that occurs when painting a still life, portrait or landscape is a...
Humanizing Medicine With Dr. Mark Hancock
August 16, 2022 20:06 - 45 minutes - 104 MBMark Hancock co-founded Humanizing Medicine in Atlanta with the belief that everyone should have access to quality integrative healthcare. In addition to being board certified in family medicine, Mark has immersed himself in many different practices including painting, farming, and philosophy of medicine. Of painting, he says, “The absolute focus on receiving sense impressions in an awake, open, and scientific state of mind that occurs when painting a still life, portrait or landscape is a...
In the Middle With Midlife Whisperer Ellen Albertson
July 23, 2022 19:37 - 47 minutes - 108 MBOur guest Ellen Albertson is a psychologist and self-compassion teacher living in the Champlain Islands of Vermont. She brings over 25 years of counseling, coaching, and healing experience to her holistic practice and transformational work. As an author and radio host, she’s known as The Midlife Whisperer™, helping women raise their vibration so they have the energy, confidence, and clarity to make their next chapter their best chapter. When we spoke, Ellen had just spent the morning in...
Being with Grief: Holding Space with Choreographer Sasha Soreff
July 08, 2022 17:38 - 40 minutes - 94.2 MBOur guest Sasha Soreff is a dancer, performance maker and creative community facilitator. These days she holds a workshop called “Mourning, Moving and Accompaniment” where she invites participants to explore grief in community through words, movement and stillness. If you're interested in signing up, visit sashasoreffdance.com Sasha created a short piece about her cancer treatment that incorporates film, dance and song called Sometimes I Sing. Sasha’s Reading + Resource List Podcasts:...
Metabolic Breakdown: Dr. Patrick Vickers on The Gerson Therapy
July 02, 2022 17:04 - 39 minutes - 89.7 MBDr. Patrick Vickers is a chiropractor by training and founder of the Advanced Gerson Therapy Clinic in Rosarito, Mexico. The Gerson Therapy is one of the most heavily censored cancer treatments in the world. A therapy based in nutrition, it challenges many core assumptions of conventional medicine. Cheryl received treatment at Dr. Vickers clinic in 2016 and followed the Gerson protocol for a long time after. She encorporates many Gerson principles into her healing journey to this day. Dr. ...
Becoming Your Own Healer with Spiritual Teacher Shannon Howard
June 10, 2022 10:23 - 44 minutes - 103 MBOur guest Shannon Howard is a spiritual teacher, life coach, and parenting mentor. She has devoted decades of study to the fields of psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and holistic health. In this conversation, we discuss her mother’s cancer journey, the importance of emotional intelligence and how to become your own healer. Shannon's upcoming book, written with Lonnie Green and entitled Integral Emotional Intelligence: Keys to Creating and Extraordinary Life, will be available from ...
Space to Share with Holistic Cancer Coach Liz Curran
May 26, 2022 17:02 - 53 minutes - 122 MBOur guest Liz Curran is a holistic health coach and co-founder of Health Navigators. Alongside her partner Karla, who I interviewed for episode 25, Liz works with cancer thrivers and those seeking to heal from chronic or emotional illness. Her work is based on the 10 Healing Factors introduced in Kelly Turner’s book, Radical Remission. In this conversation, we discuss how Liz’s loss of her sister to cancer led her to the Radical Remission Project, and how she works to create space for peop...
Anger, Depression and Ritual with Dorothy Paredes
May 13, 2022 19:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBOur guest is Dorothy Paredes, author of the beautifully candid memoir, 26 and Fu¢ked If you’d like to read, it write to us at [email protected] and we’ll send you a copy! Dorothy is also the founder of The Atrium Foundation, an organization that supports people affected by cancer so they can thrive by covering expenses that aren’t covered by insurance, including things that are outside of the realm of medical expenses. Dorothy and her team believe that mental health and wellness is ...
Walking Each Other Home with Spiritual Midwife Jade Young, MDIV
April 29, 2022 19:48 - 1 hour - 166 MBJade describes herself as a spiritual midwife. She spent the first 20 years of her professional life building a consulting business. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer Jade redirected her timme and energy to support her mother. Following her mother’s death Jade spent years grieving, healing and recalibratinng her life. She said goodbye to the Bay Area and goodbye to consulting. For the 20 years since then Jade has been deepening her spiritual practice and fine tuning herself as an ins...
Walking Each Other Home with Spiritual Midwife Jade Young
April 29, 2022 19:48 - 1 hour - 166 MBOur guest Jade Young describes herself as a spiritual midwife. Jade spent the first 20 years of her professional life building a consulting business, but when her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Jade returned to Hawaii to be with her family. Following her mother’s death, Jade spent years grieving, healing, and slowing down. She said goodbye to the Bay Area and goodbye to consulting. In the 20 years since, Jade has been deepening her spiritual practice and offering herself as an instrumen...
Strengthening Intuition with JJ Flizanes
April 15, 2022 15:49 - 46 minutes - 113 MBOur guest JJ Flizanes describes herself as an Empowerment Strategist. JJ shares her knowledge through podcasting, writing, speaking and coaching. Through JJ’s extensive career as a personal trainer she’s developed an acute awareness of the messages we receive from the body. One of the many resources JJ has created is The Invisible Fitness Formula, which I’ll link to in the show notes. JJ’s understanding of fitness goes far beyond the state of one’s physical body to incorporate the ‘invisible...
Learning to Receive with Cancer Coach Karla Mans-Giroux
April 01, 2022 19:37 - 57 minutes - 132 MBKarla Mans-Giroux is a holistic cancer coach, inspirational speaker, workshop facilitator, and cancer thriver. Karla works with other cancer thrivers to approach health with the whole person in mind. She knows that healing requires working with the body, mind, and spirit. In addition to developing food and exercise plans, Karla’s coaching can include topics as diverse as news consumption, social media, stress management, and deepening your spiritual practice. For our regular listeners, i...
Learning to Receive: Slowing Down with Karla Mans-Giroux
April 01, 2022 19:37 - 57 minutes - 132 MBKarla Mans-Giroux is a holistic cancer coach, inspirational speaker, workshop facilitator, and cancer thriver. Karla works with other cancer thrivers to approach health with the whole person in mind. She knows that healing requires working with the body, mind, and spirit. In addition to developing food and exercise plans, Karla’s coaching can include topics as diverse as news consumption, social media, stress management, and deepening your spiritual practice. For our regular listeners, i...
Living Mindfully with Cancer: In conversation with Erica Rayner-Horn
March 10, 2022 17:11 - 51 minutes - 124 MBOur guest this week is Erica Rayner-Horn, a mindfulness-based psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and mother. As a Buddhist, Erica’s first impulse upon receiving a cancer diagnosis was to go on retreat. She was disappointed to find there wasn’t a mindfulness retreat for people with cancer, so she decided to create one! In this episode, Erica tells Cheryl about how she was shaped by her childhood in post-war England and how she met zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, back before meditation had become m...
Children Are The Best Medicine with Evangeline Pesca
February 21, 2022 19:11 - 58 minutes - 135 MBOur guest Evangeline Pesca is a speaker, humanitarian, entrepreneur and the founder and chief miracle-maker of withher.org. Most importantly, she is a beloved mother to three amazing young women. Evangeline's Reading List: 1. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle 2. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 3. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay 4. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche 5. Conversations With God I, II and III by Neale Donald Walsh 6...
Just Diagnosed with Author Arlene M. Karole
February 11, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBOur guest today is Arlene Karole, lifelong learner, passionate journaler, and educator who has worked in healthcare for decades. Since her breast cancer diagnosis in 2015, she has been an advocate for patient empowerment and social support for women. Her recent book Just Diagnosed: What to Expect, What to Know and What to do Next is an invaluable resource for anyone with cancer. Arlene's Reading List: 1. Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds by Dr. Kelly A. Turner 2. ...
Just Diagnosed: What to Expect What to Know What to do Next with Arlene M. Karole
February 11, 2022 14:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBOur guest today is Arlene Karole, lifelong learner, passionate journaler, and educator who has worked in healthcare for decades. Since her breast cancer diagnosis in 2015, she has been an advocate for patient empowerment and social support for women. Her recent book Just Diagnosed: What to Expect, What to Know and What to do Next is an invaluable resource for anyone with cancer. Arlene's Reading List: 1. Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds by Dr. Kelly A. Turner 2. ...
Embodying a World without Cancer: Co-hosted by Cheryl Buck and Claire de Laszlo
January 28, 2022 12:33 - 1 hour - 148 MBAs we head into season two of CancerTalks Podcast, Claire and Cheryl thought it would be nice to tell you a little bit about themselves and share the origin story of CancerTalks. Through this conversation, they arrive at a new realization of what CancerTalks is really about, namely, coming together to find ways to embody a world without cancer. If you find yourself unable to imagine a world without cancer, we invite you to listen to Cheryl and Claire’s conversation as they try to describe wha...
Welcoming the Uninvited Guest with Dr. Ricki Pollycove
January 14, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour - 144 MBHappy new year and welcome to CancerTalks season 2! Our guest today is Ricki Pollycove, a doctor who founded San Francisco Integrative Gynecology with a commitment to listening carefully to women’s health concerns, mood issues, and past experiences with health care. She is a mother and now a grandmother of two little girls. Ricki's Reading List: 1. Just Diagnosed by Arlene Marie Karole 2. Peace is Every Step and The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh 3. Into the Magic Shop by Jim Do...
Welcoming Cancer, the Uninvited Guest with Dr. Ricki Pollycove
January 14, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour - 144 MBHappy new year and welcome to CancerTalks season 2! Our guest today is Ricki Pollycove, a doctor who founded San Francisco Integrative Gynecology with a commitment to listening carefully to women’s health concerns, mood issues, and past experiences with health care. She is a mother and now a grandmother of two little girls. Ricki's Reading List: 1. Just Diagnosed by Arlene Marie Karole 2. Peace is Every Step and The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh 3. Into the Magic Shop by Jim Do...
Grief and Joy can Coexist with Valarie Iosue aka Wonderwoman
December 10, 2021 16:49 - 49 minutes - 114 MBThis week, Claire speaks with Valarie Iosue (pron. yo-sway), a mother of four, a beloved friend to many, and one of the most inspiring examples of what it means to be a cancer thriver. Valarie shares how she’s redefining the Wonderwoman archetype as something that every woman already is. Valarie wore her Wonderwoman suit on the last day of treatment to call attention to the power that is always inside us and also constantly changing shape. One of Valarie’s main sources of strength is reme...
Let Nature Lead: Heal the Soil and Heal Ourselves with Doniga Markegard
November 26, 2021 20:26 - 42 minutes - 98.3 MBDoniga Markegard is a wildlife tracker, regenerative rancher, speaker, and author of Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild and Wolf Girl: Finding Myself in the Wild. In this episode, Cheryl and Doniga talk about the connection between our health and the health of the soil. Doniga's teen years in nature school started her on a path that led to a career in animal tracking and then permaculture and ranching at her farm in California, Markegard Family Grass-Fed, where she works to re...
Sacred Medicine & Journeying through Cancer: Transforming Trauma through Divine Feminine Healing
November 11, 2021 19:11 - 59 minutes - 78.2 MBAnnah Taylor Phinny is a Priestess of Avalon, author, and psycho-spiritual healer whose mission is to support the remembrance of the divine feminine in all beings. Her forthcoming book titled “Lady of the Lake, Rise: Breast Cancer as a Path to Wholeness Through the Eyes of a Priestess of Avalon” is poised for release in 2022. Please follow her on Instagram @avalon.calling and read more at avaloncalling.org Annah shares with Cheryl about the way she reframed surgery, radiation, and chemothe...
One Day at a Time: A Physician’s Journey with Glioblastoma
October 28, 2021 19:15 - 47 minutes - 60 MBOur guest Ian Becke started his career as a family physician. He went on to co-found Hospice of the Verde Valley in Arizona, and served as the director of Group Health Hospice Kitsap County in Washington State. Claire chats with Ian about the history of hospice and the need for holistic cancer care, even (or especially) when the cancer isn’t curable. Ian was born in Sydney, Australia in 1948 and migrated to the United States with his wife Bonnie in 1973, where they have resided ever sinc...