Healing, Grief & Trusting Yourself: Carly’s Story

About this episode

Carly shares her journey through breast cancer and her decision to radically change her lifestyle instead of following traditional treatment paths.

In this episode of Take a Breath, I’m joined by my lovely friend Carly for a deeply honest conversation about her journey through breast cancer and everything that came with it. Nearly three years ago, Carly was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy. Instead, she chose a very different path, one that focused on radically changing her lifestyle. And of course, it wasn’t easy. We talk openly about the reality of what that looked like day-...

People in this episode

Host: Polly Warren

Guest: Carly

Topics covered

• breast cancer
• lifestyle change
• grief
• healing
• trusting yourself

Keywords

• breast cancer
• mastectomy
• radiotherapy
• lifestyle
• healing
• grief
• trusting yourself

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