Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Building a New App for Cancer with Foundation 96 Director Karen Anderson
Episodes
Episodes
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Cannabis & Pain with Cannabis Educator Lisa Nicholson
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
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Our Contributing Expert Lisa Nicholson is a medical professional with many talents. Her thirst for knowledge seems unquenchable! As a licensed acupuncturist, she typically helps our community learn how acupuncture can increase our health and manage pain symptoms from treatment.
But today, Lisa’s deep passion for all things CANNABIS will benefit us. In this three-part series, Lisa will discuss how cannabis can be used for pain management, improved sleep, and sex and intimacy!
Topics discussed in this episode about Cannabis and Pain—
How cannabis is viewed in Chinese medicine
A historical discussion of cannabis in the US
An overview of the body’s endocannabinoid system
THC and estrogen
Lisa recommends connecting with a “cannabis nurse” to help you navigate to the right producers and products through the American Cannabis Nurses Association.
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/janjames
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here. https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/support-groups
Joining our Newsletter List will give you a monthly recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support. https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/waitlist
Subscribe to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/podcast
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
Our Contributing Expert, Robyn Towt, is a breast cancer survivor and the co-founder of Global Patient Advocacy Coalition. Soon after she had a bilateral mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, she fell ill. She was fortunate that she didn’t have to do chemo or radiation, so it was easy to narrow down what was making her sick—it was the implants!
Robyn is a now a survivor of “breast implant illness,” and she’s become a patient advocate working the implant manufacturers, our government, and the medical provider community to ensure proper safeguards are in place to ensure informed consent. Her story is powerful and important.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Hope After Breast Cancer LIVE! Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating with Dawn Hopkins
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you!
Do you wish there was an affordable solution to rising healthcare costs? There IS! Greg and I use Christian Healthcare Ministries, a non-profit health cost sharing ministry, not insurance. Christian Healthcare Ministries members have shared billions of dollars for medical bills while also keeping participation costs low for over 40 YEARS. Find out more here. CHM (hopeafterbreastcancer.com)
You can learn more about Contributing Expert Dawn Hopkins at https://www.inspiritusyoga.com
Subscribe and watch our Hope After Breast Cancer Vodcast on Rumble and YouTube!
Subscribe and listen to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform!
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español).
Meet our Contributing Expert team.
Joining our Newsletter List will give you an intermittent recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support.
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Friends, I am so very excited to bring you this training about “Mindful Eating.” Our Contributing Expert Dawn Hopkins is, among other things, a Licensed Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Facilitator.
“Mindful eating”? What the heck is THAT? From the Am I Hungry? website:
You were born with a natural, instinctive relationship with food.
As a young child, you knew when you were hungry and when you were full.
You ate what you loved without guilt. And when you were done eating, food was no longer your focus. You turned your attention to playing, exploring, and growing while your body used the fuel for energy.
Along the way, you probably picked up messages about food and your body from family, friends, healthcare, and the media. For example, you were told that certain foods are “bad,” and when you eat them, you are “bad” too.
Instead of play, exercise became punishment for eating or for earning the right to eat. Your body was somehow wrong, creating an intense longing to change it to earn acceptance and approval.
This set you up for a life-long pattern we call the eat-repent-repeat cycle.
It’s time to heal your relationship with food.
When you stop obsessing about food and your body and heal your relationship with food, you free your energy to live the big, vibrant life you crave!
Dawn is a world-class “trainer of trainers” in the yoga community. But she’s also passionate about the way the Am I Hungry? Program helped her change her relationship with food and heal deep-seated issues from an eating disorder. As a breast cancer survivor herself, she wants to bring what she’s learned to our community! Please join us—we’re waiting for you!
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/janjames
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here. https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/support-groups
Joining our Newsletter List will give you a monthly recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support. https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/waitlist
Subscribe to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! https://www.hopeafterbreastcancer.com/podcast
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
Our Contributing Expert Dr. Deanna Smith is also a Healthcare Cost Consultant who helps patients and doctors learn techniques to successfully appeal insurance denials. In this episode, Dr. Deanna gives us some practical tips about how we, too, can appeal our own claims and have a positive outcome.
Topics discussed—
How to find financial assistance programs
Payment plans
Collections agencies
The power of asking, “Can you help me?”
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Mommy Has a Boo-Boo: Talking to Your Littles About Cancer
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you!
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here.
Joining our Newsletter List will give you a monthly recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support.
Subscribe to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform!
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
When Marci Greenberg Cox was diagnosed with breast cancer, her daughters were ages 5 and 1. How do you explains a breast cancer diagnosis to children? This is a struggle every young mommy faces when they’re diagnosed.
Struggle no more! Marci is the author of Mommy Has a Boo-Boo: Explaining Breast Cancer to Children. The book helps kids ages 3-9 learn what their Mommy is going through. The book explains that you can't see the boo-boo and tells the kids what it is called: cancer. It goes through the timeline of what one mommy went through — from having surgery and losing her breasts, to having to go through chemotherapy and losing her hair. Mommy may look different, and it will take time for Mommy to heal — but in the end, she will get better!
In our interview, Marci discusses her other books, including The Breast Cancer GPS, Breast Cancer Word Search, Courage, Hope & Strength, A Warrior’s Journey and more!
Marci has self-published eight books in the last two years and is currently writing #9! As we discussed in our podcast, she’s also helping new writers get started through her Pad-to-Publishing service.
Marci, you’re doing GREAT things! Thanks for serving the breast cancer community with such passion and love!
Reach Marci through her website at florpublishing.com
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Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you!
Do you wish there was a biblical solution to rising healthcare costs? There IS! Greg and I use Christian Healthcare Ministries, a non-profit health cost sharing ministry, not insurance. Christian Healthcare Ministries members have shared billions of dollars for medical bills while also keeping participation costs low for over 40 YEARS. Find out more here. CHM (hopeafterbreastcancer.com)
Subscribe and watch our Hope After Breast Cancer Vodcast on Rumble and YouTube!
Subscribe and listen to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform!
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español).
Meet our Contributing Expert team.
Joining our Newsletter List will give you an intermittent recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support.
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Our Contributing Expert and Sexuality Counselor Traci Owen helps couples work through the steps to a healthy sex life in this episode.
Topics discussed—
Intentionality to show up for one another
Willingness to listen and respond to one another’s thoughts and needs
How to establish safe and open communication
Handling unspoken expectations
Why making a plan is important
Initiation of sexual intimacy
The importance of body health for both partners
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman - https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Erin’s Sex After Breast Cancer Success Story
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you!
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here.
Joining our Newsletter List will give you a monthly recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support.
Subscribe to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform!
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
More and more success stories are being told in our private Sex After Breast Cancer support group! Our women are learning about solutions that are available to them to treat painful intercourse and lack of libido from our incredible group of Contributing Experts.
Today’s podcast features one of our women and a newlywed, Erin, who was struggling with both painful intercourse and lack of libido early in her marriage.
Through the encouragement of the women in our support group and the education she was able to get through our team of Contributing Experts, Erin felt empowered to talk to her providers about potential solutions to her issues. As she tried options along the way (including vaginal laser treatment and pelvic floor therapy), her gynecologist suggested that Erin see a different gynecologist who worked more often with women who take hormone blockers.
Erin tells the story of how that new gyny was able to specifically identify why intercourse was painful and how just a tiny bit of topical hormone cream applied a couple of times a week restored her tissue and took away her pain quickly!
And on the libido front, it was recommended that Erin try using a prescription medication Addyi that works in pre-menopausal women to treat decreased sexual desire. Her gyny said 70% of the women she prescribes it to had great results, and Erin was one of those. Although her gyny said it would take three months to have results, Erin experienced increase desire in the first month! (Note that there is one other prescription medication given by injection for pre-menopausal women who have low sexual desire called Vyleesi).
As it is with all of us, friends, painful intercourse and lack of libido is most likely caused by a combination of medical conditions that can be treated. Take Erin’s advice and ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF with your providers to find the answers you need. THERE IS HOPE.
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Sex After Breast Cancer LIVE! Q&A #14-5 Steps to Body Confidence with Karin Del Maestro
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer
If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you!
Do you wish there was a biblical solution to rising healthcare costs? There IS! Greg and I use Christian Healthcare Ministries, a non-profit health cost sharing ministry, not insurance. Christian Healthcare Ministries members have shared billions of dollars for medical bills while also keeping participation costs low for over 40 YEARS. Find out more here. CHM (hopeafterbreastcancer.com)
Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here.
Joining our Newsletter List will give you an intermittent recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support.
Subscribe and watch our Hope After Breast Cancer Vodcast on Rumble and YouTube!
Subscribe and listen to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform!
Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources.
Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Our body confidence story started at a young, impressionable age. What are early stories you have about your height, size, shape, physical appearance that are playing over and over again in your mind? Those stories inform how we feel about ourselves now!
With a breast cancer diagnosis on top of all of that, our body confidence often takes a beating. Join Breast Cancer Transformation Coach to learn 5 Steps to Body Confidence.
The Five Steps discussed—
Self-care is a conscious act we take to promote our own mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being.
Self-love is how you show your body love and gratitude.
Self-compassion is about how hard you are on yourself! The more compassionate you have with your body, the more your body will be compassionate with you.
Self-acceptance is accepting your body for what it can do, instead of what it can’t. It’s important to become a friend to your body, to admire it, to accept ourselves on every step of our journey, even when there are twists in the road.
Self-confidence for your body impacts how you show up in every area of your life.
Be sure to join Karin’s private breast cancer support group, Healthy Living after Breast Cancer Community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/HLABC).
Download Karin's 30-Day Energy Boosting Self-Care Calendar here: https://bit.ly/3TLfnfq