MBC Life: Quakes, Aftershocks, and Hope
Our MBC Bookshelf, Living with MBC, Parenting Our MBClife Our MBC Bookshelf, Living with MBC, Parenting Our MBClife

MBC Life: Quakes, Aftershocks, and Hope

Welcome to the Our MBC Life Summer Season 2023. In this episode Victoria Goldberg is joined by clinical psychologist and author Sarah Mandel to discuss her book  and her insights into life and death, trauma and healing. parenting and hope. Sarah’s book, Little Earthquakes is a beautiful, honest, and thoughtful memoir of how a healthy 36-year-old, who is about to give birth to her second baby, lives through an experience of getting de novo MBC diagnosis and its horrific aftermath.

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Doing End-Of-Life Right
Living with MBC, Medical Community, Hospice, Our MBC Bookshelf, Communication and Relationships, Difficult Life Choices, Grief and Loss and End of Life, Challenges and Barriers Our MBClife Living with MBC, Medical Community, Hospice, Our MBC Bookshelf, Communication and Relationships, Difficult Life Choices, Grief and Loss and End of Life, Challenges and Barriers Our MBClife

Doing End-Of-Life Right

How does one do things right at the end of life? There are many ways to answer this question, as varied as all of us.

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MBC & the LGBTQ2S+ Community
Living with MBC, Access to Care and Drugs, MBC Allies, MBC Patients, Challenges and Barriers, Communication and Relationships, Health Disparities, MBC Stories, Our MBC Bookshelf Our MBClife Living with MBC, Access to Care and Drugs, MBC Allies, MBC Patients, Challenges and Barriers, Communication and Relationships, Health Disparities, MBC Stories, Our MBC Bookshelf Our MBClife

MBC & the LGBTQ2S+ Community

join us for our discussion about the LGBTQ2S+ community and MBC. Co-host Natalia Green moderates a panel with Bob DeVito and Rainy Orteca, two guests living with MBC, and who are part of the LGBTQ2S+ community along with the co-founder of Queering Cancer, Dr. Evan Taylor. We also sit down with Kimiko Tobimatsu , a Canadian human rights lawyer and an award-winning graphic novelist whose book, Kimiko Does Cancer, tells the story of her breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 25 and the challenges she faced as a queer person, living with breast cancer.

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The Healing Power of Writing - Live Readings
Our MBC Bookshelf, MBC Patients, MBC Allies, Living with MBC, MBC Stories Our MBClife Our MBC Bookshelf, MBC Patients, MBC Allies, Living with MBC, MBC Stories Our MBClife

The Healing Power of Writing - Live Readings

In this special bonus episode we bring to life some of the readings from the Wildfire Community. Several writers living with MBC voice their own work to share thoughts on nature, dating, grief and so much more. Thanks to April Stearns and Wildfire for making these available for us to share.

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The Healing Power of Writing
Our MBC Bookshelf, MBC Allies, MBC Patients, Living with MBC, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Quality of Life Our MBClife Our MBC Bookshelf, MBC Allies, MBC Patients, Living with MBC, MBC Stories, Making Our Best MBC Life, Quality of Life Our MBClife

The Healing Power of Writing

We’ve talked about many MBC related topics this season but mental health is one we ask about in every interview we conduct. Writing as a self-care tool is one we wanted to explore. April Stearns talked about it as the “legacy of story.” On this episode we explore living with MBC and the healing power of writing.

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