Breast Wise: Unafraid

Nobody hands you a guide for the emotional tidal wave that comes with a breast cancer diagnosis. Your surgeon explains surgery. Your oncologist walks you through chemotherapy. Your nurses hand you brochures. But no one sits down with you and says: here is what is about to happen inside your inner world. The grief that arrives without a name. The guilt that keeps you up at 3am, replaying every appo...

If you have ever lain awake at 2am before a scan, heart pounding, mind spiralling into every worst-case scenario, you are not broken. You are not disordered. You are human. And this episode is going to change the way you understand what is happening inside you. In this conversation, Katherine sits down with Diante Fuchs, Clinical Psychologist, author of The Gift of Anxiety , and founder of The Uns...

What happens when fear completely takes over after a breast cancer diagnosis? In this deeply personal episode of Breast Wise: Unafraid, Katherine shares the moment she realised that survival was not just about treatment plans, statistics, or staying positive. It was about finding a reason to keep living, even in the middle of fear. Katherine opens up about being diagnosed while raising two young c...

After a breast cancer diagnosis, the medical system moves fast: appointments, scans, treatment plans, and surgery. But when treatment ends, many women are left facing a different challenge, a gap between clinical care and genuine human support. In this episode, Katherine talks with Dr. Barbara Hochstein, one of New Zealand’s most experienced breast radiologists, a founding trustee of the Aratika C...

Most women finishing breast cancer treatment are told to feel relieved. To get back to normal. But the fear doesn't lift when the appointments stop. The hypervigilance stays. And somewhere in recovery, you look in the mirror and don't quite recognise yourself. In this first episode, Katherine Froggatt shares her story. The real one. It starts with a sharp pain at a cafe in Taupo, moves through a s...

BREAST WISE: UNAFRAID Confidence, calm and hope after cancer. Welcome to Breast Wise: Unafraid, a free fortnightly podcast for women navigating breast cancer at every stage. Newly diagnosed, in treatment, or wondering why you still do not feel like yourself after treatment ended, this show walks alongside you. I am Katherine Froggatt, 10-year breast cancer thriver, Evidence-Based EFT Practitioner...

There is a moment after a breast cancer diagnosis when the world keeps moving and you are standing completely still. The appointments are booked. The treatment plan is set. But nobody has told you how to sleep, how to calm the fear at 3am, or how to feel like yourself again. That is exactly what Breast Wise: Unafraid is for. I'm Katherine Froggatt — breast cancer survivor, 10 years, no recurrence....