Breast Wise: Unafraid

What happens when breast cancer changes not only your body, but the way you see your relationships, your future, and what matters most? Katherine is joined by librarian, empowerment coach, and breast cancer survivor Kate Houston for an open conversation about sisterhood, receiving support, writing through experience, and making space for a life that feels true after diagnosis. Together, they speak...

After breast cancer treatment ends, the body can still feel on high alert. Katherine is joined by kinesiologist and wellbeing coach Alex Bowles for a gentle conversation about nervous system regulation, scan anxiety, emotional stress, and learning to reconnect with your body in breast cancer recovery. Together, they explore what kinesiology can look like in practice, why it can be hard to slow dow...

Katherine shares why traditional meditation never worked for her and how she stumbled into an unexpected form of nervous system regulation during chemotherapy: knitting. It's an honest conversation about active relaxation as an alternative to stillness, especially for high achievers and recovering perfectionists who struggle to switch off. Key Takeaways: Meditation isn't the only path to nervous s...

What does metabolic health have to do with breast cancer recovery? Katherine is joined by GP and metabolic-health clinician Dr. Glen Davies for a grounded conversation about nutrition after breast cancer, reducing refined sugar and ultra-processed foods, healthy fats, protein, fasting, and finding an approach that fits your stage of recovery. They also discuss the importance of maintaining muscle,...

When you have spent a lifetime holding everything together, rest can feel like the hardest thing to allow. After breast cancer, slowing down can bring guilt, discomfort, and the feeling that you should already be back to who you were before. In this episode, Katherine shares a more compassionate way to meet recovery, one that honours your need for support, spaciousness, and time. Key takeaways: Wh...

After a breast cancer diagnosis, it can feel like your body no longer trusts you. You reach for comfort, then feel guilty, then tell yourself you’ve failed again but this episode gently explains why that spiral happens and what your body may actually be asking for. Katherine shares the three shifts that helped her move toward steadier recovery without adding more rules or pressure. Main topics: -...

Most women leave treatment with a pamphlet and a checkout smile. What nobody explains is why fatigue can last for months, what cancer therapies strip from your cells, or which practical steps actually restore energy and reduce inflammation. Katherine interviews Lee Tan, a pharmacist with 30+ years’ clinical experience, a PreKure Master Health Coach in Lifestyle Medicine, Mental Fitness and Metabol...

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....