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Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

De : Bron Watson the Serenity Project
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 You believe healing is more than scans and treatments. Healing can be emotional, spiritual, and it's very, very personal. And here's the thing, you're allowed to not have it all figured out. You're allowed to rest and you're allowed to cry and grieve and hope all in the same breath. Welcome to the Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer with your host Bron Watson. This show isn't about fighting or surviving. It's about finding your north star that helps you find calm in the chaos of cancer. Here, we believe in both science and soul, evidence and perspective, where everyone can heal, even when a cure is not an option. Each week will offer different ways for you to find out what you need, what to expect. We'll offer different ways for you to find what you need from the heart. These are honest reflections for the hard days. Think of us sitting around a campfire. Power cards, quick soul nourishing thoughts when you need a reset. We call these the serenity now moments, where it's possible to flip the switch on the negative feeling that comes with cancer. There are also listener Q&As, where I answer real questions from you. And powerful interviews, stories of people making meaning through the chaos. Serenity Rising isn't just a podcast, it's a community, because your healing matters. Where moments make memories, and memories are how we make every day count. Learn more at http://www.serenityproject.com.au/2025 Développement personnel Hygiène et vie saine Médecine alternative et complémentaire Réussite personnelle
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  • N = One: Science, Soul, and Self - Advocacy with Kate Caine

    N = One: Science, Soul, and Self - Advocacy with Kate Caine
    Apr 22 2026
    What happens when a medical scientist becomes the patient? And what does "N = one" really mean when the one is you? Kate's story spans forensic pathology, integrative oncology, and a breast cancer diagnosis received alone, mid-pandemic, in locked-down Melbourne. This episode weaves science and soul into a conversation that will stay with you. SHOW NOTES In this guest interview episode of Serenity Rising, Bron is joined by Kate Caine: medical scientist, tissue pathologist, health practitioner, and breast cancer survivor. What unfolds is a remarkable conversation about what it means to be a deeply knowledgeable health professional and then become the patient. Kate's journey is extraordinary. Raised in a family of 13 children with a GP father and nurse mother, she grew up with medicine woven through daily life. Her career took her from routine tissue pathology to forensic autopsies, paediatric pathology overseas, and eventually into remedial massage and osteopathy. Then came her breast cancer diagnosis in late 2019, received alone, in a surgeon's office, just before the world shutdown with COVID. Kate walked through chemotherapy, radiation, and the brutal side effects of peripheral neuropathy, largely in isolation during Melbourne's extended COVID lockdowns, driving herself to treatment, navigating a changed body, and drawing on every ounce of her scientific training to advocate for herself when the system wasn't listening. Central to this conversation is Kate's concept of N = one. In research, large sample sizes create validity. But in a cancer diagnosis, every person's experience is their own. Their response to treatment, their side effects, their healing, all N equals one. Kate and Bron explore what it means to hold both the data and the deeply personal, to use science as a framework without letting it override your lived experience and intuition. In this episode, Kate and Bron explore: Growing up in medicine and how it shaped Kate's resilience and curiosityReceiving a breast cancer diagnosis alone, mid-pandemic, in locked-down MelbourneThe shock of going from health professional to patient and the strange dissociation that followedN equals one: why your cancer journey is uniquely yours, regardless of what the data saysSelf-advocacy in medical settings: asking questions, interviewing oncologists, and refusing to be dismissedIntegrative oncology and the both/and approach, science and soul, not science or soulRe-embodiment: accepting a changed body and building a new relationship with healthThe late ADHD diagnosis and what it illuminated about Kate's life, treatment experience, and what's nextContemplating death as an invitation, not a morbid exercise, but a clarifying oneHow to live and die without regret: legacy, presence, and the marbles of time This episode also carries a powerful thread about women's health advocacy, through Kate's own experience of dismissed symptoms and her sister's story of being a 40-year veteran of intensive care nursing who still didn't want to be seen as a difficult patient. Science is not the enemy of intuition. Data does not replace the wisdom of your own body. This conversation is a reminder that you are not just a statistic, you are N = one. And that matters. Make Every day count, my friends. JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website https://serenityproject.com.au/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    43 min
  • The Three Questions No One Prepares You For

    The Three Questions No One Prepares You For
    Apr 15 2026
    Am I going to die? Did I cause this? And who am I now? In this deeply personal episode of Serenity Rising, Bron sits with the three questions that arrive after a cancer diagnosis and rarely get the time and space they deserve. Drawing on lived experience, psychological research, and hard-won wisdom, Bron explores how to stop carrying these questions alone, and how to learn to live alongside them with grace. SHOW NOTES In this solo episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson explores the three questions that almost every person touched by cancer carries but rarely says out loud. These aren't medical questions. They're human ones. And they deserve more than a clinical answer. The first question, "Am I going to die?" is really about control, meaning, and the terror of uncertainty. Drawing on research into death anxiety and the role of meaning-making in oncology, Bron reframes this question as something to breathe inside, rather than solve. She shares what her own second diagnosis, an incurable cancer in February 2023, taught her about living with uncertainty, and how the Serenity Prayer offers a practical framework for finding the one thing you can do today. The second question "Why me? Did I cause this?" is the one that does the most quiet damage when it's left unexamined. Bron explores the neuroscience behind self-blame, the research linking it to poor mental health outcomes, and the crucial difference between understanding a contributing factor and holding yourself responsible for your own suffering. The path forward, she argues, is not self-deception, it's self-forgiveness. The third question, "Who am I now?", tends to linger the longest. Bron reflects on the grief of identity loss that accompanies a life-changing diagnosis, the research on post-traumatic growth, and why community—not just content—is essential for identity reconstruction. This is not a question with a quick answer. It is an invitation to discover who you're becoming. In this episode, Bron explores: The three unspoken questions that almost everyone with cancer is carryingWhy "Am I going to die?" is really a question about control and meaningThe research on death anxiety and the role of meaninglessness in amplifying fearHow self-blame develops and why it predicts poor mental health outcomesThe difference between understanding and blame and the power of self-forgivenessThe grief of identity loss and what post-traumatic growth research actually tells usWhy community is a clinical prerequisite for identity reconstructionAcceptance and Commitment Therapy and what the evidence says about processing difficult emotionsHow to hold these questions with grace instead of fear This episode weaves together research on death anxiety, self-blame, post-traumaticgrowth, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, all translated into honest, human language. This is an episode for anyone who has asked one of these questions in the dark and wondered if it was safe to say it out loud. It is. And you are not alone in any of it. Make every day count my friends JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website https://serenityproject.com.au/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    21 min
  • Science and Soul: The Story Behind The Serenity Project

    Science and Soul: The Story Behind The Serenity Project
    Apr 7 2026

    In this solo foundational episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson takes listeners back to the very beginning...to the diagnosis that gave birth to The Serenity Project, and to the principles that have shaped it ever since.

    On the 23rd of February 2023, Bron heard the words again: yes, it's cancer. But this time was different.

    This time, the diagnosis was an incurable blood cancer. And somewhere in those early weeks, she noticed something that would change the direction of her work: a significant gap between what the medical system could offer, and what it actually means to feel like a whole human being navigating something this big.

    That gap became The Serenity Project. Not a wellness program. Not toxic positivity.

    A third space where science and soul, evidence and perspective all sit at the same table, where clinical medicine and holistic care are both welcomed, and where no one is asked to choose.

    In this episode, Bron introduces:

    • The story behind The Serenity Project and why it was built
    • The concept of the third space and why it matters for people navigating cancer or chronic illness
    • The Blue Line: an internal GPS for healing that doesn't panic, doesn't judge, and simply recalibrates
    • The SERENITY Framework; eight principles that govern this entire project: Space, Evidence, Refuge, Empathy as Infrastructure, Narrative, Impact, Trust, and Your Serenity
    • The Serenity Prayer as a lived framework for daily life
    • Why this community exists for carers just as much as patients

    This episode is an invitation to stop searching for the right way to heal—and to find your own. To take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and know that you don't have to do this alone.

    Because your serenity isn't Bron's to define. It's yours.

    Your healing matters every day, make every day count.

    JOIN THE COMMUNITY

    Website https://serenityproject.com.au/

    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/

    LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson

    Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject

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    10 min
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