In this honest and vulnerable episode, Katie talks with Sonya, Melanie, and Julie, three Coffee + Crumbs team members who were all diagnosed with breast cancer between 2020 and 2022. You’ll hear how all of these women felt or discovered something abnormal on their own and advocated for themselves to follow up on their intuition. You’ll listen in on the emotions that accompanied the agony of waiting for test results. They’ll let us in on how they shared the news with their kids. And mostly, you’ll hear from each of these women how cancer has forever changed them. 

This episode takes us up close to women who have had a life-altering diagnosis, and our hope is that by listening, we can all learn empathy, compassion, or – if this diagnosis is yours – a way to walk forward with both courage and grace for yourself.

Show Notes

Thanks for listening to the Coffee + Crumbs podcast Season 8, Episode 3: A Conversation About Breast Cancer.

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Susan G. Komen

• American Cancer Society

• Melanie’s essay about when she first heard her diagnosis

• The New Generation Breast Cancer Book by Dr. Elisa Port

• Good Enough by Kate Bowler, a cancer survivor

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