Living Our Breast Lives

Join Wren and special guest, Cait Kelley, as they have a very hard yet very necessary conversation about survivors guilt and what it’s like to lose people they loved to Metastatic Breast Cancer. This Thanksgiving we honor these tremendous losses and with each and every day we are gifted on this Earth, we will continue to get loud and advocate for those who cannot any longer. We must continue to pa...

Join Wren and Brittany as they get LOUD for this Breast Cancer Awareness Episode as they discuss the dreaded "Pinktober" along with the many raw truths of Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness, and the funding that lacks, not just during BCAM but always. Happy October 13th! It is officially Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness DAY! It is OUR DAY! Tune into LightUpMBC Live tonight and help us generate f...

Join Wren and Brittany as they shed light on the beauty that lies within! Let's talk, SELF LOVE after CANCER! Loving yourself, physically, can be exhausting, let alone after a cancer diagnosis, whether early or late stage. Sometimes, the person looking back at you in the mirror is not someone you recognize anymore, and it's even harder if you no longer like what you see. Let's get back to that pla...

Join Brittany and her special guest, Carla Dempsey, a Usui Reiki Master as they discuss spiritual healing with focus on Reiki! Be on the look out for the many "ah ha" moments! Healing from cancer or other conditions may not always come from medication alone, but also from integrative therapies such as Reiki, Acupuncture, and so much more. Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing technique based on the...

Moist is always better! Join Wren and Brittany for this lighthearted and fun episode as they discuss the physical, mental, and emotional challenges that Metastatic Breast Cancer can have on one’s sex life, including the toll it can take on one’s vaginal tissue. Learn about the importance of vaginal health, how to get there if it is lacking, and ways to help. Enjoy this very personal and educationa...

Welcome to your blissful thirties! So we THOUGHT! Join Wren and Brittany as they go behind the scenes and discuss what it's like to have Metastatic Breast Cancer in your thirties when you thought life would look a lot differently for you. Your thirties typically involve marriage, having children, successful career paths, home ownership, traveling, socializing, but with a cancer diagnosis, its more...

Join Wren and Brittany with this awesome Q & A episode! As many things in life, you learn from asking those with knowledge and/or prior experience! If you don't ask the question, you won't get the answer! In this episode of Living Our Breast Lives, Wren and Brittany answer some questions submitted by their followers! It's a great day to answer some listener questions and share a fe...

What happens when a behavioral health psychologist is diagnosed with breast cancer and begins struggling themselves? "Therapists need therapists. When it's your own shit, you can't see it. You've got all the training, and you've got all the skills, and you know what the book says, but when its you, you are a human being, and it's very tough to apply the same advice or knowledge to your own struggl...

Most, if not all of us, have heard of Post-Traumatic Stress, but have you ever heard of Post-Traumatic Growth? Did you know that positive psychological change can be experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances? People who endure psychological struggle following adversity can often see positive growth afterwards. This episode will prove that suffering can, in...

Ever wonder what it's like for both a mother and daughter to experience and navigate a breast cancer diagnosis at the same time? What about when both thirty-five year old daughters are the ones with Stage Four Metastatic Breast Cancer and their mothers are the ones with Stage 1 breast cancer, and Wren’s mother who’s also been living with Metastatic Ovarian Cancer for the last eight years. Join Wre...

Join Wren & Brittany for this very emotional, YET highly educational episode as they discuss the fear behind having to possibly change treatment lines due to progression, the outrage in understanding that not every MBC Thriver will qualify for the available treatments readily on the market, and the fear behind making friendships in the MBC community when there's so much loss. Listen to Bri...

Try not to get emotional as you listen to Wren's husband, Danny, get vulnerable as he talks openly about this journey they are on together! Get a better understanding from the caretakers point of view! We all know its never easy for the people we love to see us go through something as treacherous as a cancer diagnosis, so today's episode is meant to shed light on the bravery and hardship o...