Welcome to Living Our Breast Lives! A podcast not only about a woman thriving with Metastatic Breast Cancer, but also self-love, appreciation, and an overall awakening to this beautiful gift we call life! Being diagnosed with MBC has changed my life in more ways than one. Not only do I have a passion for educating and bringing awareness to MBC, but through gained wisdom, insight, and perspective through navigating this disease, I will continue to advocate for those who can no longer. Follow ...
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One Woman's Fight for a Future Beyond MBC with Guest Speaker - Tami Eagle Bowling!
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Join Living Our Breast Lives founder, Wren, and special guest, Tami Eagle Bowling, the creator of LightUpMBC Live, for this powerful and uplifting episode as they discuss Tami's continued efforts for funding Metastatic Breast Cancer research, helping to create a better future for all diagnosed! With no family history, at the age of 41, Tami Eagle B…
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Beating the Odds as a 5 YEAR MTNBC THRIVER
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Join Living Our Breast Lives founder, Wren, for this fierce solo episode as she delves into the significance of her 5 YEAR MBC Anniversary as a 35 year old mTNBC Thriver! Hear her compelling diagnosis story and engage in an empowering conversation about advocacy and the critical importance of continued funding for Metastatic Breast Cancer research!…
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A Boundless Love for Life with AYA Thriver - Brittney Beadle!
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Diagnosed at only eighteen years old, join Living Our Breast Lives founder, Wren, for this special episode with AYA Thriver, Brittney Beadle, as they dive deep into her incredible journey of advocacy as a Metastatic Breast Cancer Thriver! After countless run-ins with progression during her nine years living with MBC, Brittney remains a beacon of po…
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Cancer May Take, But Still, We Thrive with Guest Speaker - Adiba Barney!
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Welcome to the first episode of 2024! Join LOBL founder, Wren, for this special episode with guest speaker, Adiba Barney, as they discuss a miraculous journey through surrogacy, a nine year thrivership having Metastatic Breast Cancer, the challenges of divorce post-diagnosis, METAvivor insights, and the empowering tale of starting a new life as a s…
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A TRIBUTE TO THEM, AND US
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It's the holiday season again, friends! Join Wren for this solo episode as her feelings and emotions take center stage, survivors guilt is prevalent, gratitude is beaming, and she holds nothing back in addressing the heartache that accompanies every piece of bad news for the Metastatic Breast Cancer community. We must remember and continue to tell …
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Join LOBL founder, Wren, for this solo episode as she discusses upcoming changes to the podcast, but more importantly, tune in as she discusses the most recent life lesson she has learned while living four years with metastatic breast cancer as a mTNBC thriver. Life lessons are blessings in disguise. They help us reflect, grow, and make necessary c…
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When Cancer Doesn't End: Mental Health Edition
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In this episode, Wren and Cait talk candidly about what its like to live with an incurable diagnosis; from the need for, or lack of, support to discussing the unexpected ways cancer changed (and continues to change) their lives to sharing some insight into how to offer support to someone who is on "treatment for life". This episode is a must, not o…
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Incurably Funny with AYA Thriver - Annie Boyd!
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AYA patients also known as adolescent & young adults are a unique population in the oncology space. They are often underserved and underrepresented. This results in missed or delayed diagnoses, insurance coverage issues, lack of support for sexual health and fertility concerns, lack of peer support groups, and impacts to career/education/relationsh…
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These are a Few of our Favorite Things
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These are a few of our favorite things! Living Our Breast Lives presents Wren & Cait's cancer "must-haves" during chemo, radiation, and surgery! This episode provides personal must-haves, but also must-haves from our very own breast cancer community! Are you newly diagnosed or going through a certain treatment and feeling overwhelmed trying to figu…
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A TEN YEAR mTNBC THRIVER with Guest Speaker - Stephanie Michaelis!
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March is all about Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness! Want to know more about mTNBC? Join Wren and Cait for this exceptional and at times, emotional, episode with guest speaker and fellow mTNBC thriver, Stephanie Michaelis, as they discuss clinical trials, ten YEARS of survival, and the fearless journey one takes in order to be heard, seen, a…
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When the Doctor Becomes the Patient with Guest Speaker - Cheryl Law!
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March is Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so what better time to feature an mTNBC thriver who just celebrated their FIVE year cancerversary! On this episode of Living Our Breast Lives, join Wren and Cait for this exceptional episode with guest speaker and fellow MBC thriver, Cheryl Law, as they discuss what it's like for a physician t…
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Let's Talk Racial Disparities with Guest Speaker - Deltra James!
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February is Black History Month! One of Living Our Breast Lives' New Year's resolutions was to bring more MBC thrivers onto the podcast to not only share their stories and experiences, but to also spread much needed awareness on issues and topics we may not fully understand or be well-versed in. Join Wren and Cait for this exceptional episode with …
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New Year, New Me: Making the Heaviness Lighter
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Happy New Year! Join Wren and Cait as they discuss New Year's resolutions that might leave you looking at life differently! Resolutions for someone with metastatic breast cancer tend to look differently because perspectives have shifted, priorities have changed, and the things that used to be most important - are no longer. In the cancer world, you…
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It's [Not Always] the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
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Ho, Ho, Help! It’s the holidays again! Join Wren and Cait for their second episode together as our previous cohost, Brittany, steps away from the podcast to prioritize her health. Wren and Cait continue to have the hard and necessary discussions around having an MBC diagnosis. Although, it's supposed to be the "most wonderful time of the year," tod…
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Grateful for Survival, but What About the Others with Guest Speaker - Cait!
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Join Wren and special guest, Cait Kelley, as they have a very hard yet very necessary conversation about survivors guilt and what it’s like to lose people they loved to Metastatic Breast Cancer. This Thanksgiving we honor these tremendous losses and with each and every day we are gifted on this Earth, we will continue to get loud and advocate for t…
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: PINKTOBER AF!
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Join Wren and Brittany as they get LOUD for this Breast Cancer Awareness Episode as they discuss the dreaded "Pinktober" along with the many raw truths of Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness, and the funding that lacks, not just during BCAM but always. Happy October 13th! It is officially Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness DAY! It is OUR DAY! Tune i…
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Who is She? Rediscovering Self-Love After Cancer
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Join Wren and Brittany as they shed light on the beauty that lies within! Let's talk, SELF LOVE after CANCER! Loving yourself, physically, can be exhausting, let alone after a cancer diagnosis, whether early or late stage. Sometimes, the person looking back at you in the mirror is not someone you recognize anymore, and it's even harder if you no lo…
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Transformational Healing: Reiki
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Join Brittany and her special guest, Carla Dempsey, a Usui Reiki Master as they discuss spiritual healing with focus on Reiki! Be on the look out for the many "ah ha" moments! Healing from cancer or other conditions may not always come from medication alone, but also from integrative therapies such as Reiki, Acupuncture, and so much more. Reiki is …
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Intimacy and MBC: Overcoming Challenges to Reclaim Your Sexual Health
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Moist is always better! Join Wren and Brittany for this lighthearted and fun episode as they discuss the physical, mental, and emotional challenges that Metastatic Breast Cancer can have on one’s sex life, including the toll it can take on one’s vaginal tissue. Learn about the importance of vaginal health, how to get there if it is lacking, and way…
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Cancer Did Me Dirty at Thirty
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Welcome to your blissful thirties! So we THOUGHT! Join Wren and Brittany as they go behind the scenes and discuss what it's like to have Metastatic Breast Cancer in your thirties when you thought life would look a lot differently for you. Your thirties typically involve marriage, having children, successful career paths, home ownership, traveling, …
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Q & A Episode - That Would Have Been Nice to Know!
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Join Wren and Brittany with this awesome Q & A episode! As many things in life, you learn from asking those with knowledge and/or prior experience! If you don't ask the question, you won't get the answer! In this episode of Living Our Breast Lives, Wren and Brittany answer some questions submitted by their followers! It's a great day to answer some…
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Prioritizing Mental Health as Self Care with Guest Speaker, Psychologist, Dr. Mary Lacey
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What happens when a behavioral health psychologist is diagnosed with breast cancer and begins struggling themselves? "Therapists need therapists. When it's your own shit, you can't see it. You've got all the training, and you've got all the skills, and you know what the book says, but when its you, you are a human being, and it's very tough to appl…
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Post Traumatic Growth: Can Suffering Have Transformative Power?
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Most, if not all of us, have heard of Post-Traumatic Stress, but have you ever heard of Post-Traumatic Growth? Did you know that positive psychological change can be experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances? People who endure psychological struggle following adversity can often see positive growth afterward…
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Not You, Too! - Time for the Mothers to Share Cancer Journeys, too!
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Ever wonder what it's like for both a mother and daughter to experience and navigate a breast cancer diagnosis at the same time? What about when both thirty-five year old daughters are the ones with Stage Four Metastatic Breast Cancer and their mothers are the ones with Stage 1 breast cancer, and Wren’s mother who’s also been living with Metastatic…
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The Unpredictability of Cancer
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Join Wren & Brittany for this very emotional, YET highly educational episode as they discuss the fear behind having to possibly change treatment lines due to progression, the outrage in understanding that not every MBC Thriver will qualify for the available treatments readily on the market, and the fear behind making friendships in the MBC communit…
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Through a Different Lens - Wren’s Husband
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Try not to get emotional as you listen to Wren's husband, Danny, get vulnerable as he talks openly about this journey they are on together! Get a better understanding from the caretakers point of view! We all know its never easy for the people we love to see us go through something as treacherous as a cancer diagnosis, so today's episode is meant t…
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