I'm a certified Life, Health, and Nutrition Coach, and a Terrain Certified Network Advocate living with stage 4 breast cancer. I help breast cancer survivors move past the trauma of a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, renew their bodies and minds, and regroup their lives, so they can create lives that are even better than before breast cancer.
Through my weekly podcast and my online coaching and courses, I guide women in supporting their metabolic health and discovering new ways of thinking so they can manifest the lives, relationships, and health they want and deserve.
I believe in supporting the body's ability to heal and focusing on self-compassion. In my own experience, I learned that fighting and healing don't go together, and when we choose to support healing, everything shifts and we can learn to love ourselves and our bodies, maybe for the first time.
Laura Lummer
What if life after breast cancer could be more than just surviving?
This week, I'm sharing a special conversation with four women I've coached for more than six years. They've all experienced breast cancer differently, but each has discovered that life after diagnosis can hold more growth, connection, and possibility than they once imagined.
We talk about how breast cancer changes your perspective, why healing continues long after treatment, and what happens when you learn to put your own needs on the list.
From setting boundaries and changing relationships to navigating reconstruction years later and living with metastatic breast cancer, these women share what it really means to create a life that's better than before.
You don't have to wait for life to feel certain to start living it fully.
Meet the Women:
Avril shares how reframing her thoughts helped her find empowerment after diagnosis.
Robin Scalzo shares how learning her own worth changed her relationships and her life.
Linda Ford shares why healing takes time and why you can make new choices years after treatment.
Sherry Henderson shares how she continues to grow and find joy while living with metastatic breast cancer.
#breastcancer #breastcancerrecovery #lifeafterbreastcancer #metastaticbreastcancer #stage4breastcancer #breastcancerpodcast #breastcancersupport #breastcancerawarenessmonth #emotionalhealing #mindsetshift #selfcompassion #breastcancercommunity #breastreconstruction #healingjourney #womenshealth #lifecoaching #personal growth #betterthanbeforebreastcancer
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Laura Lummer
What if the most powerful tool you have was with you every moment of every day, completely free?
In this episode, Jondrea Phelps shares why the breath can do what medication and years of searching could not, and how to use the one thing always within reach. 💖
#BreastCancer #Cancer #ThePowerOfBreath #BreastCancerRecovery #HealingAfterCancer #SelfCompassion #LifeAfterBreastCancer #Breathwork #NervousSystemHealth #CalmYourBody #MindBodyConnection #IntegrativeHealth #Wellness #WomensHealth #EmotionalHealing #TerrainHealth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
What happens when treatment ends, the scans are clear, and everyone expects you to feel grateful… but you don’t feel like yourself anymore? 🎧
My guest this week is Jondrea Phelps, a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, coach, and founder of JP Empowerment and Flatties Wear.
We talk about the part of breast cancer recovery that doesn’t always get talked about: the after.
The grief. The fear. The body changes. The identity shifts. The pressure to get back to normal.
We also talk about HypnoBreathwork®, finding your voice again, and why moving forward may be more healing than trying to become the person you were before breast cancer.
You don’t have to pretend everything is okay just because you made it through.
#BreastCancer #BreastCancerSurvivor #LifeAfterBreastCancer #BreastCancerRecovery #BreastCancerPodcast #BreastCancerSupport #HypnoBreathwork #Breathwork #Mastectomy #FearOfRecurrence #BodyImage #HealingJourney #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #WomensHealth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
How often do people assume you are fine now, simply because you look it?
In this episode, Elissa Kalver speaks to the invisible reality of living with metastatic breast cancer, the daily treatment and constant navigating that the world rarely sees.
#InvisibleIllness #MetastaticBreastCancer #BreastCancerRecovery #HealingAfterCancer #SelfCompassion #LifeAfterBreastCancer #WeGotThis #YouLookFine #Stage4Thriver #IntegrativeHealth #Wellness #WomensHealth #EmotionalHealing #TerrainHealth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
What if October, the month that can feel like it belongs to everyone but us, held something just for you? 🎧
Every single day of October, a woman living with metastatic breast cancer is being handed $500, no application, no criteria, no proof of need.
My guest this week is Elissa Kalver, who started the world's first nonprofit gift registry for cancer patients from her fifth round of chemo.
You deserve to live, not only to stay alive.
#BreastCancer #MetastaticBreastCancer #StageFourBreastCancer #BreastCancerThriver #BreastCancerPodcast #WeGotThis #BeLikeBrittany #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #CancerResources #BreastCancerCommunity #Hope #Healing #WomensHealth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
Have you ever followed the protocol perfectly, watched it work for someone else, and quietly wondered what was wrong with you?
In this episode, I share why the same action can bring a completely different outcome, and why that was never proof that you are broken. 💖
#YouAreNotBroken #ShameFreeHealing #BreastCancerRecovery #HealingAfterCancer #SelfCompassion #LifeAfterBreastCancer #BioIndividuality #NotYourFault #MindsetAfterCancer #IntegrativeHealth #Wellness #WomensHealth #EmotionalHealing #TerrainHealth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
How many times have you said, or heard yourself think, I did all the things?
We quietly believe that if we do it well enough, we will be safe.
Episode 480 of Better Than Before Breast Cancer sits with three truths that set a lot of us free.
#BreastCancerRecovery #LifeAfterBreastCancer #MetastaticBreastCancer #SelfCompassion #Presence
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Laura Lummer
You wait to feel relieved after the report, and instead some part of you keeps bracing.
In this episode, I share why the fear does not always leave with the cancer, and how to let yourself catch up to your own good news. 💖
Watch episode #479 now!
#NoEvidenceOfDisease #EvolvingIdentity #BreastCancerRecovery #HealingAfterCancer #SelfCompassion #LifeAfterBreastCancer #CancerAndIdentity #LetYourselfCatchUp #WomensHealth #IntegrativeHealth #Wellness #EmotionalHealing #MindsetAfterCancer #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
When the scan comes back clear, does the thought of cancer actually leave with it?
For so many of us, the answer is no.
The disease can be gone from the body while the identity of being a person with cancer quietly stays behind.
Cancer can be something you are managing without being the identity you are living from.
#BreastCancer #MetastaticBreastCancer #LifeAfterBreastCancer #BreastCancerThriver #BreastCancerPodcast #Survivorship #Identity #HealingJourney #SelfCompassion #MindsetMatters #WomensHealth #LifeAfterTreatment #PersonalGrowth #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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Laura Lummer
Have you ever been handed exactly the help you needed, and still had to find the strength to grab it?
Support can change everything, but only when you are willing to reach for it.
In this episode, I share what that looked like for me. 💖
#BreastCancer #Cancer #ReachingForSupport #DoingTheInnerWork #BreastCancerRecovery #HealingAfterCancer #SelfCompassion #LifeAfterBreastCancer #FindYourVillage #AskingForHelp #CommunityHealing #IntegrativeHealth #Wellness #WomensHealth #EmotionalHealing #CancerAndIdentity #BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer
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