Dina Legland from Wellness Warriors for Life, and Maggie Judge from Love Me Healing, join forces to discuss the real and raw experiences and gifts from each of their unique breast cancer journeys. This podcast will serve as a space for having hard conversations, asking the tough, even taboo questions, getting vulnerable, and helping us all, not feel alone. Listen to how they overcame the many challenges and celebrated wins along the way. Dina and Maggie will explore navigating and conquering many different fears, embracing the transformation and approaching ongoing healing from diagnosis to remission and beyond. They believe that healing is never done goes way beyond the physical and that cancer was the gift that happened for them that saved their lives. Dina and Maggie will inspire you to love yourself through your journey and fill your life with more joy, peace and healing inside and out.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 hours 11 minutes
episode 15: What We ‘Lose’ & ‘Gain’…
Dina & Maggie share their personal experience of what they felt they lost and gained as they navigated their breast cancer journey. They discuss things like identity, confidence, and clarity lost as it relates to work and personal life and realizing that some of the losses were simply things, they needed to let go of, things that were not serving them.
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episode 14: A Supporter’s Perspective
As a supporter, what are your initial instincts when someone tells you they have cancer?
Dina & Maggie introduce a very special guest, Marla, to discuss what it is like to be the supporter of someone going through cancer. Marla shares her initial reactions and how she worked through her own emotions to be there in support of Maggie. As a supporter, it is about meeting your person where they are at and offering your support through open, empathic, and curious conversation...
episode 13: Allowing Love & Support
What does allowing love and support mean to you?
Dina & Maggie discuss what it was like to allow love and support in as they navigated their healing. There can many challenges to ALLOWING love and support in during this healing journey. Although we may want others to love and support us, it can be a challenge to accept it. We may be ready to say “I’m fine” just to protect those around us, not knowing exactly how to say what we need in terms of receiving love and support...
episode 12: Showing Up For Work
Navigating work with a Breast Cancer diagnosis is challenging to say the least. It requires us to have a conversation with our ‘boss’ and potentially our colleagues. It also requires flexibility as we don’t know how we will feel over the course of 4-6-8 to even 12 or more months’ time while we work through the big treatments/symptoms, etc. Dina & Maggie cover some of the tools we have learned through our processes of navigating challenges in the workforce...
episode 11: Bald, Bold & Beautiful
Many people will lose either some or all of their hair as a result of treatment for breast cancer. Dina & Maggie share their personal experiences with hair loss and how they navigated the challenging reality of losing their hair. Hair can be a huge part of our identity, and it can be challenging to even picture yourself bald...
episode 10: Surgical Scars & Our Relationships
How do our surgical decisions affect our relationships? Dina & Maggie discuss the importance of relationships in connection with the scars that breast cancer leaves behind. It is ok for you and your loved ones to have tough feelings about the surgeries that you have undergone. The important thing to do is have those hard conversations and take into consideration how these decisions could affect your loved ones by looking at it from their perspective...
episode 9: FEAR: Implants & Choices
In today’s episode, Dina & Maggie discuss the many choices associated with the surgery most face on a Breast Cancer Journey and the fears that surround them. Dina shares her personal story about the decisions she made when it came to choosing implants. When it comes to implants and other surgeries there are many choices you may have to make but know that the decision you make is made for you...
episode 8: FEAR: Do Our Boobs Define Us?
Do your boobs define you? Dina & Maggie continue their series of conversations about FEAR, and in today’s episode, they are discussing some of the fearful decisions surrounding the surgical options most of us face. Both Dina & Maggie get vulnerable with their own experience and choices around the surgeries they underwent and just how important it is to advocate for yourself. There are many fears and emotions that surround these decisions but KNOW that the decision is YOURS!
episode 7: FEAR: Radiation
Facing Chemo is hard enough but what happens when the talk of Radiation begins?
Today Dina and Maggie dive into the fears that resulted when their treatment talks turn to that of Radiation. Listen to their individual stories and how they navigated the processes and remind us all to have conversations with the proper medical professionals to fully understand the treatment and make informed choices...
episode 6: FEAR: First Chemo
You have your first chemotherapy scheduled and you are afraid not just the treatment but the possible side effects as well.
Continuing their discussions on FEAR, Dina and Maggie dive deeper into their biggest fears about chemo and how they navigated their fears. Everybody's path is unique but in sharing their stories, Dina and Maggie hope to help you alleviate some of your fears of chemo, knowing that you are not alone...