Protecting Our Loved Ones at Risk

Protecting Our Loved Ones at Risk

Many with metastatic breast cancer fear for their children and siblings: How can we help them avoid the same diagnosis? Are there ways to minimize risk?

In this episode, host Martha Carlson speaks with her eldest child, who’s navigating personal and family risk factors despite no known genetic predispositions. Join us for this powerful and informative episode where we interview Dr. Sagar Sardesai from Ohio State University’s High Risk Breast Clinic.

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Healing our Distress: The Potential of Psilocybin-assisted Therapy

Healing our Distress: The Potential of Psilocybin-assisted Therapy

Welcome to our series on the potential of psilocybin-assisted therapy to help us live as well as possible with metastatic breast cancer.

In this first episode, co-host and producer of this series, Dr. Paula Jayne and co-host Lynda Weatherby interview Dr. Boadie Dunlop, Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at Emory University. Dr Dunlop shares existing and emerging data on how psilocybin may help those of us living with MBC and discusses an upcoming pilot trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy at Emory University’s Palliative and Supportive Care Clinic.

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Doing End-Of-Life Right
Lara MacGregor: How To Decline Well With Hope

Lara MacGregor: How To Decline Well With Hope

This is an interview that doesn’t shy away from the hard conversations that we have when diagnosed with a terminal disease, and gives Lara the opportunity to tell us what it has all felt like for her.

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Relationships and Intimacy
Facing Mortality

Facing Mortality

Welcome to a special episode of our podcast. In April of 2021 a prominent clinical psychologist Dr Anne Kane joined SHARE’s Program Project Manager Deb Hackenberry in a discussion about the implications of facing mortality while also living as Dr Kane puts it as fully, richly, and deeply as possible. This episode is an audio version of the webinar about a very real, yet seldomly discussed issue.

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Working while Living with MBC

Working while Living with MBC

Working while Living with MBC. A panel of MBC patients share their experiences working while living with MBC and we talk to an Alison Greenberg, an employment lawyer about what’s important when communicating your diagnosis at work.
Carol Evans, CEO and Executive Director, joins us to talk about her vision for SHARE’s future, how the metastatic community has changed how she thinks about breast cancer and her trailblazing career in media. We also talk about coping with COVID and cancer in the workplace.

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Parenting while Living with MBC

Parenting while Living with MBC

We dedicate this podcast on Parenting while Living with MBC to Heidi Armitage Green. Heidi’s son Walker shares his experience before and after she died. We also hear from Natalia Green and others on how they talk with their children about their metastatic breast cancer diagnosis. Learn about resources you can use for your own converations.

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