Prioritizing Mental Health as Self Care with Guest Speaker, Psychologist, Dr. Mary Lacey

Living Our Breast Lives

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 apply the same advice or knowledge to your own struggles then it is to offer to a patient." - Doctor Mary Lacey

Join Wren and the incredible Doctor Mary Lacey, a behavioral health psychologist who is joining Living Our Breast Lives to gift us with all her beautiful knowledge and professional advice regarding mental health and what that experience might be like for someone diagnosed with breast cancer, early or late stage.

Doctor Mary Lacey is a stage one breast cancer survivor, a mom, and a psychologist with her very own private practice of twenty plus years providing individual/ family therapy, couples counseling, and specializing in anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Struggling with mental health is very common for a lot of people, regardless of the circumstance. Listen to Mary Lacey as she discusses a multitude of very specific coping skills to help lessen the anxiety.

Discussed on this podcast:

- Recently diagnosed and wish for nothing more than to try and save your hair during early stage chemotherapy treatment? Doctor Mary Lacey discusses Cold Capping in great length and how her tireless efforts have now made it affordable and covered by insurance!

- Discussing the differences and similarities of an early stage and late stage diagnosis

- Looking for short term financial assistance because you are currently in treatment and unable to work? Wren discusses nonprofits all over the country that strive to relieve you of any financial burdens you may be experiencing!

Nonprofits for short term financial assistance:

Go Jen Go United Breast Cancer Foundation (UBCF) Life Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) Cancer Care Pretty in Pink Remember Betty The Pink Fund Hope Abounds

Please don't hesitate to reach out to Doctor Mary Lacey! She strives to help other women every day and by doing so, "it takes the powerless feeling and it makes it powerful" - Mary Lacey @doclacey on Instagram