Podcast

Elena is a life coach, yin yoga teacher, and author. But what most people say about Elena is that she brings delightful sparks of energy to everything she does.
Elena is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into delight, one day at a time.
At home, Elena enjoys watching the sunrise, tending to her many plants, riding her Peloton bike, and impromptu kitchen dance parties.
During our conversation, Elena speaks about what most cancer survivors rarely speak about. She shares how her low libido became the norm in her early 20’s, the pain she felt during sex, the tools and strategies she uses to feel sexual pleasure again, and her best advice for someone going through menopause due to treatment or surgery.
Learn more about Elena at www.elenasonnino.com or by reading her new book, Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges.
The Cancer Liberation Project is sponsored by www.thekarlfeldtcenter.com

Dr. Bernie Siegel is a best-selling author, lecturer, and founder of Exceptional Cancer Patients. ECaP is a specific form of individual and group therapy, utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images, and feelings. It is based on “carefrontation,” a safe loving, therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment, and healing of the individual’s life. The physical, spiritual, and psychological benefits that followed, led to his desire to make everyone aware of his or her healing potential. He realized exceptional behavior is what we’re all capable of.
Bernie, as he prefers to be called, is a retired pediatric general surgeon and leading teacher of the mind-body connection. He has been named one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet by the Watkins Review. His NY Times best seller, Love, Medicine and Miracles, revolutionized the way doctors and patients harnessed the power of the mind to heal. Bernie is also the author of 18 other books including one of my favorites, 365 Prescriptions for the Soul.
During our conversation, Bernie shares what led him to start Exceptional Cancer Patients, the questions he asked that helped his patients heal, his #1 advice for someone who wants to avoid or heal from disease, and how he used paintings to learn about his patients’ lives.
For more information, join ECap support group, or call in for questions, go to berniesiegelmd.com.

As the Director of Behavioral Medicine at regional and nationally recognized cancer centers, Dr. Brenda synthesizes relevant research into clinical practice through the design and implementation of evidence-based biobehavioral programming. As a result of this rigor, her work is nationally recognized and endorsed by leading specialists in multiple disciplines. For two-decades her programs have been implemented in major cancer centers and other healthcare organizations. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Brenda is a consultant for corporate and health care organizations and developed a health psychology program for primary care settings specializing in preventive medicine, autoimmunity, and stress-related conditions.
She was the clinical assistant for the national psychoneuroimmunology program Getting Well and later, as the National Program Director for ECaP (founded by Bernie Siegel, MD), Brenda designed ECaP’s first hospital-based psycho-oncology program (instituted at The Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center of New England, treating 50,000 patients annually) and co-created ECaP’s national retreats for people with life-challenging illness.
Dr. Brenda’s flagship 6-week program, featured in her book, You Can Beat the Odds, has been praised by Harvard scientists, oncologists and epidemiologists as “as a prescription, in and of itself, for maximizing one’s health” and “the health book to read this year.”
During our conversation, Dr. Brenda Shares how we can change the way our genes are expressed, how to change our negative belief system, how stress can have both negative and positive effects on or body, how our mindset and belief system is predictive of our health outcomes, the benefits of imagery for healing, and the importance of dealing with traumas in our life.
Dr. Brenda can be reached at brendastockdale.com

Janet Ottersberg’s career in the health and wellness industry has spanned over 30 years. Her passion for an integrative approach to healing and wellness started early on in her life as she witnessed multiple family members affected by chronic disease including cancer and diabetes. As an Occupational Therapist, Janet has had the pleasure to work with patients from neonates to geriatrics in a variety of settings. As she continued to work as an OT she was always learning new tools and approaches to integrate into her therapeutic tool box. She added massage therapy, Yoga instruction, lymphedema treatment, Daring Way facilitation, Life and Wellness coaching and Group facilitation into the mix. Her training in the Daring Way based on the work of Brene’ Brown has been fundamental in the emotional healing work that goes along with physical healing. She assists people that have been affected by cancer in healing the emotional scars of cancer as a facilitator with A Fresh Chapter. Janet has been working with Dr. Nasha Winters using the Metabolic Approach to Cancer both as a group facilitator and as a coach. She is very excited about her role in changing the face of cancer treatment as the Director of Education for the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health.
Janet is passionate about life balance and when she is not doing the work she loves, she can be found on a dance floor, traveling to another country or walking the trails of Altadena with her dogs, Heinz and Winston.
During our discussion, Janet shares why she decided at a young age to take care of herself, how her struggle with weight paved the way to her life’s work, what she feels is a must when looking to eat healthier, the common symptoms of metabolic dysfunction, the number one thing you can do to improve your health, and how the ketogenic diet is not a one-size-fits-all approach to eating.
Janet can be contacted at janetottcoaching@gmail.com or to learn more about the services she offers you can visit her website at, https://ottersbergcoaching.com/

Willow is a cancer thriver, dancer, writer, and traveler. She has transformed her entire life, while healing stage 4 breast cancer. She travels in her vintage van giving “healing sessions” to those with cancer, using cacao and tarot as a way to dive into the emotional side of cancer. Willow is currently creating a healing retreat space in her home in Mount Shasta, California. She shares her journey vulnerably on YouTube, IG and TikTok to inspire others. Willow says that cancer healed her life.
During our conversation, Willow shares openly about her life and marriage prior to her diagnosis, how she discovered a lump in her breast, the shock of learning her first diagnosis was stage IV breast cancer, the decision she made to leave her marriage, why she chose to no longer do mammography, the conventional treatment she did, why she fired two of her oncologists, some of the natural protocols she chose, and how six years later she’s living a healthy, aligned life.
For more information go to meetwillowstar.com

For over 32 years, Dina Legland has been a wife and mother of two successful daughters all while acting as a licensed RN, EMT, and home health care provider.
As a first responder, she exemplifies strength and courage as she thinks on her feet, though her self-response time wasn’t always that way.
Dina says that cancer saved her life by helping her discover the underlying fears that paralyzed her, and these internal fears almost killed her.
Now Dina is certified in health and life transformation to help women face their greatest fear to gain clarity around its source to overcome worries that feel toxic like cancer.
Today, she has great strength and response time for herself, and her mission is to help others identify their fears to overcome what they dread using their custom tools, gain back control and unleash their inner warrior.
During our conversation, Dina shares how her family’s health struggles motivated her to lose weight prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, how she gained back 45 pounds during treatment, and the toll that took on her mentally and emotionally. She also shares how to uncover those things you fear the most, how to manage those fears, and the most important lesson cancer taught her.
Dina can be reached at wellnesswarriorsforlife.com

Over the last 35 years, Chris Joseph has started and managed three environmental consulting businesses, launched two fan-funded music record companies, and founded a non-profit charitable foundation. He’s also dabbled in philanthropy, book writing, songwriting, and magazine writing. His company, CAJA Environmental Services, is a leading environmental consulting firm in southern California.
Chris is also an odds-defying, stage-three pancreatic cancer survivor and thriver since 2016, as described in his best-selling 2020 book “Life is a Ride: My Unconventional Journey of Cancer Recovery.” He is also a co-curator and contributing author to “The Epiphanies Project: Twenty Personal Revelations.” Chris is also a podcaster with four currently released, including Talking Threadheads, The Epiphanies Project, Oy Vey L.A., and Happy Endings: Overcoming Life’s Obstacles in Unconventional Ways.
During our conversation, Chris shares the symptoms he felt months prior to his cancer diagnosis, why he wasn’t responding to his prescribed chemotherapy, why he decided to fire his oncologist, the treatments he got in Germany that are unavailable in the United States,
what he continues to do to remain healthy, and the important advice he gives to others going through a health challenge.
For more on Chris’s work go to linktr.ee/chrisjoseph_author

As a Mindset Coach, Author, and Cancer Thriver, Bethany Webb’s mission is to find freedom with everything life brings. Always intrigued by the relationship between the Mind & Body, she loves exploring how our mental BS (belief systems) affect our emotions, physical sensation and overall health & wellbeing. Her healing toolbox provides a compassionate inner support system, especially during her journey healing stage IV breast cancer. She now loves to say her diagnosis is to “live the f*ck out of life!” Her greatest passion is helping others find the same freedom through online classes, coaching, and her book baby: My Guru Cancer.
During our candid conversation, Bethany shares how she discovered a lump in her breast, what test she chose to do that didn’t show cause for concern, the test that revealed she had breast cancer, how The Work of Byron Katie helped her cope with her diagnosis, and how she opened her mind to western medicine, while using complementary therapies as well.
She also shares a powerful example of using four simple questions that helped shift her mindset, how she felt after being declared “cancer-free”, how she accepted her new body, and how she chose to live her life after a recurrence.
Learn more at bethanywebb.com

Tara Coyote is the owner of a horse retreat center, Wind Horse Sanctuary in Kaua’i, Hawaii, which was formally located in Northern CA. She is a certified Equine Facilitated Learning teacher and a life coach. Over the years, she has guided hundreds of people with private sessions, group workshops and ‘Grief Rituals with Horses’.
Tara’s memoir, Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses is a #1 bestseller on Amazon in eight different categories! Her book is about overcoming adversity, a deep dive into the challenges that come from loss, her own harrowing health journey and how her horses have played a significant role in her miraculous healing with cancer.
She happily lives in Kaua’i with her two horses, Aussie Shepard & cats. She believes it is always possible to find beauty within the greatest tragedy and that every challenge is present to serve us for our highest growth!
During our conversation, Tara shares the signs that she ignored leading up to her breast cancer diagnosis, why she was petrified to do standard treatment, why she decided to do it after two and a half years of natural therapies. What complementary therapies she did along with chemotherapy, how she dealt with the trauma of watching her best friend pass away, how her horses helped in her healing journey, why she made the decision to move back home to Hawaii, and the important advice she has for anyone touched by cancer.
For more information, go to cancerwarrioress.com.

T.J. Hills, is the Author of the Best-Seller, Sex, Drug, Babies and Breast Cancer: Health Benefits of Estrogen Gene Testing. She is a powerful motivational speaker advocating that all women should take an Estrogen Gene Test to learn how careful one should be with excess estrogens, especially drugs. She guides women on simple steps to improve estrogen function.
A breast cancer patient in remission since 2009, TJ is a Board Member of the Better Estrogen Foundation, Former Board Member of the Estrogen Gene Test Company, and Hormonal Cancer Foundation. She has appeared on National TV, radio and print outlets across the country, and has spoken at major medical and corporate conferences as well as large and small women’s groups, inspiring women and their physicians to take control of their health starting with a simple estrogen gene test.
During or conversation, TJ shares the symptoms she had prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, the importance of knowing your life-long estrogen health, where to find an estrogen gene test, why she recommends everyone get this test whether you’re diagnosed with cancer or not, and what can lead to estrogen dominance.
For more information, go to betterestrogen.com