Falling Forward: Andy Campbell's Conversation about Cancer, Loss, and Resilience

Falling Forward: Andy Campbell's Conversation about Cancer, Loss, and Resilience

From Bereaved But Still Me by Anna Jaworski

August 7, 2025 · 34 min · Season 9

About this episode

Andy Campbell shares his profound journey through multiple traumas and discusses the concept of resilience in the face of loss and cancer.

(00:00:00) Life's Lessons From a Mother's Fight (00:00:00) Life's Lessons From a Mother's Fight (00:00:00) Life's Lesson's From a Mother's Fight (00:06:20) Andy's Journey Through Multiple Traumas (00:12:10) Finding Freedom in Letting Go of Control (00:12:10) Finding Freedom in Letting Go of Control (00:16:39) How Core Beliefs Shape Resilience (00:22:50) Building Your Default Network for Crisis (00:27:47) Transforming Pain Into Purpose How do you keep going when everything has been taken from you? Andy Campbell's story will stop you in your tracks. After surviving childhood sexual abuse, losing his mother to cancer, battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer (which he has now survived for nearly seven years against all odds), and enduring the devastating loss of his son to suicide, Andy has earned the right to speak about resilience in a way few others can. The most profound moment in our conversation comes when Andy describes his cancer diagnosis. Having watched his mother and three aunts die from cancer, he had spent years preparing for what he thought would be inevitable, only to be blindsided by pancreatic cancer instead. In that moment of complete helplessness, Andy discovered…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Jaworski

Guest: Andy Campbell

Topics covered

  • resilience
  • cancer
  • loss
  • mental health
  • personal growth
  • trauma

Keywords

  • resilience
  • cancer
  • loss
  • trauma
  • mental health
  • personal growth
  • freedom
  • core beliefs

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