The Grit & Grace Podcast
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Hosted by Dana Lyons, The Grit & Grace Podcast brings you real, unfiltered conversations with women who are leading, building, navigating change, and living busy, multi-faceted lives. These aren't just interviews. They're honest, life-giving conversations about what it means to show up with faith, courage, and purpose, through every season and assignment.
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Healing Beyond Survival: Cancer, Mindset, and the Truth About Joy | Dr. Cindy Howard | Grit & Grace | #9
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A cancer survivor physician on illness, women finding their voice, and why real healing isn’t toxic positivity
What happens when life breaks you open—and you choose not to look away?
In this powerful episode of the Grit & Grace Podcast, host Dana Lyons sits down with Dr. Cindy Howard—physician, cancer survivor, and award-winning author of Positively Altered—for an honest conversation about cancer, chronic illness, mindset, and what true healing really means.
This is not a conversation about toxic positivity or pretending everything is fine.
It’s about telling the truth, listening to your body, emotional resilience, and finding joy even when life doesn’t get easier.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Why saying “I understand” can invalidate real pain
- How cancer and illness force women to reclaim their voice
- Motherhood, vulnerability, and the emotional weight of watching loved ones suffer
- Why mindset isn’t motivational fluff—it’s a survival skill
- Letting go of perfection, control, and people-pleasing
- How healing often begins when life falls apart
If you’re navigating cancer recovery, chronic illness, burnout, midlife transition, emotional exhaustion, or women’s health challenges, and asking, “Is there life on the other side of this?”—this episode will meet you exactly where you are.
🎧 Listen now and remember: life doesn’t end when things fall apart—it often becomes more honest.
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