Best Life After Cancer

Deborah Butzbach, MD

Join oncologist Dr. Deborah Butzbach, as she brings experience from both her medical practice and life coaching degree to help you release your fear, regain your joy and reduce your risk after cancer treatment.

  1. Meditation for Cancer Survivors

    08/07/2024

    Meditation for Cancer Survivors

    In honor of Miles' birthday, his and my gift to you is this meditation for cancer survivors, which should help with fear, anxiety and maybe even chronic discomfort.

    16 min
  2. Recurrent Cancer and the Waiting Game

    11/09/2022

    Recurrent Cancer and the Waiting Game

    This podcast, written and recorded in June, talks about my husband and my journey with his recurrent head and neck cancer, as we waited for testing and surgery, and how I dealt with the struggles of managing my worries while we waited for testing, biopsies, and our surgical date.  Waiting sucks, but there are things you can do to improve your experience.

    17 min
  3. Cancer Recovery: Do You Need to Take Time Off?

    06/13/2022

    Cancer Recovery: Do You Need to Take Time Off?

    After loosing my son, Miles in a car accident, my mom unexpectedly from complications of endocarditis, dealing with my oldest son's depression and flashbacks to the accident, and navigating the diagnosis of a vocal cord cancer in my husband, I was struggling to navigate working as well.  I talk today about how to know you need to take time off and what to do with that time.

    19 min
  4. Rita's Story: Beating Metastatic Melanoma

    02/17/2022

    Rita's Story: Beating Metastatic Melanoma

    Rita was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of melanoma, that rapidly spread to her nodes, then to her liver and elsewhere.  Today, her scans are clear.  Hear her story, with all of the challenges and triumphs that came along the way.  She is an inspiration!

    30 min
  5. Surviving the Tsunami of a Crisis (with a focus on losing a child or receiving a life threatening diagnosis)

    02/01/2022

    Surviving the Tsunami of a Crisis (with a focus on losing a child or receiving a life threatening diagnosis)

    I share some of the concrete steps I took to make it through the first five months after losing my 13 yo son, Miles.  These same techniques will help newly diagnosed cancer patients in surviving their first months as well.  I hope it helps you stay afloat, navigate the unpredictable currents, and eventually reach the shore.

    19 min
  6. Understanding Grief from Cancer or Loss

    01/17/2022

    Understanding Grief from Cancer or Loss

    This podcast talks about grief - that it is normal and necessary.  I talk about the stages of grief as I see them in my oncology patients, and as I experience them as a grieving parent.

    18 min
  7. Asking Food or Alcohol to be Comfort, Entertainment or Joy

    01/04/2022

    Asking Food or Alcohol to be Comfort, Entertainment or Joy

    So often we ask food to be more than just the sustenance our bodies need.  But when we do this, there are ALWAYS negative consequences.  Understand why you are doing this and some insight on how to stop.

    21 min
  8. Dealing with Trauma (and what people say!)

    11/23/2021

    Dealing with Trauma (and what people say!)

    Whether it is a death in the family, a cancer diagnosis or another trauma, what well-meaning family and friends say can be challenging.  Today, I talk about both my experience with this, and share a letter from a follower of the podcast.  Keep sending my messages about what you all want to hear about!

    17 min
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Join oncologist Dr. Deborah Butzbach, as she brings experience from both her medical practice and life coaching degree to help you release your fear, regain your joy and reduce your risk after cancer treatment.

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  • Creator
    Deborah Butzbach, MD
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    73
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Deborah Butzbach, MD
  • Show Website
    Best Life After Cancer