The Many Faces of Cancer
As a cancer survivor and thriver, I know how important community and support are when you are facing a cancer diagnosis. That’s why I created The Many Faces of Cancer Podcast.
Each week I will be interviewing amazing people with heartfelt and inspirational stories from all sides of the cancer journey: patients, survivors and thrivers, caregivers, family and friends, and professionals. I may even throw in a bonus episode once in a while talking about things that are important to us all.
We never think it will happen to us, until it does. This podcast will be about community, knowing you’re not alone in your journey. It will also be an opportunity for people to share their stories and hopefully help others.
I hope you will all tune in. While it will be cancer stories, we all learn from others and, ultimately, these are human stories, applicable to many other areas of life.
The Many Faces of Cancer
We Can All Learn So Much from Children with Brenda Rivera, RN, BSN
I'm so excited about today's episode! It's a little different and so impactful!
My guest this week is Brenda Rivera, a pediatric nurse with over 7 years experience, and she lives life with the mindset of changing the family lineage and building a legacy for future generations to come.
While she doesn't work in oncology, she takes care of many children going through cancer who are in her department for non-cancer issues. I use the term "Out of the mouths of babes" to reference the crazy and insightful things that kids so often say. Well, the resilience that children show and their unique way of looking at life can be such an inspiration. Brenda shares 5 things that she has learned being around these children facing sometimes unimaginable challenges.
1. Rewriting the narrative of your story and your situation
2. Seeing each day and each moment with a new lens
3. Having a new curiosity and joy for the circumstance
4. Making each moment spectacular
5. Finding things to look forward to in life
Brenda shares some incredible stories of amazing children that can inspire us all. We can all truly learn a lot from children.
Brenda has her own podcast as well, called The Linear Changer Podcast and you can find it on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lineage-changer-podcast/id1747647261?i=1000656342075
Or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/24AvJmtvlXg01XYwmXxQlY?si=mUamjXh9Q_WIRRbo6ED7BQ
You can also connect with her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brendarivera1019/
I would love to hear your takeaways from this episode! You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/melissagrosboll/, email me at drmelissagrosboll@gmail.com, or text me at 720-201-4292