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.
https://heal-inside-and-out.captivate.fm
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 hours 11 minutes
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 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 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 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 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 16: Scary Rabbit Holes
Dina & Maggie talk about 2 very different perspectives on learning about the cancer they were facing. To research or not to research and the potential overwhelm & fear from the mass amount of information and sources out there.
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episode 17: Hearing Cancer Free or In Remission; Now what?
Cancer free or IN remission?
Same diagnosis, different doctors, different opinions; Dina & Maggie share the different experiences they had on the other side of their treatments. We take a look at the language different doctors may use around cancer-free or IN remission and what that can mean for our own personal healing. Reminding ourselves to focus on what we need for our individual healing, which will be different for all of us...
episode 17: Hearing Cancer Free or In Remission; Now what?
Cancer free or IN remission?
Same diagnosis, different doctors, different opinions; Dina & Maggie share the different experiences they had on the other side of their treatments. We take a look at the language different doctors may use around cancer-free or IN remission and what that can mean for our own personal healing. Reminding ourselves to focus on what we need for our individual healing, which will be different for all of us...
episode 18: Checkups, Tests and New Symptoms… Now What?
What are the non-negotiables we choose when we are faced with new challenges as part of our ongoing healing?
In continuation with last week’s episode, Dina & Maggie share their personal journeys as it relates to their ongoing healing. Once coming out on the other side of your cancer diagnosis, there may be new fears, challenges, and responsibilities in the ongoing healing process...
episode 19: Heal Inside & Out; Is it Just For Breast Cancer?
Dina & Maggie are joined by Marla to talk about the application of HEALING INSIDE & OUT beyond Breast Cancer. We are all healing from something and whatever that thing is has helped us trigger the gift of space to heal. Healing is about creating meaningful connections to mind, body & spirit, and that goes beyond healing from breast cancer. Dina & Maggie share the insights they have learned from the cancer healing journeys and how they can be used in all types of healing...