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Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

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What does it mean to heal when a cure isn't guaranteed? Serenity Rising is the podcast for people living with cancer, chronic illness, and those walking alongside someone they love. Created in the third space between science and soul, evidence and experience. Hosted by Bron Watson, a registered nurse, educator, and two-time cancer survivor living with incurable Multiple Myeloma, each episode blends research-backed insight with honest, lived wisdom. No toxic positivity. No hustle. Just real conversation about the human experience of navigating illness with courage, clarity, and compassion. From expert interviews to fireside Q&As, Serenity Rising explores the emotional, psychological, and deeply personal side of living with cancer. The parts your medical team rarely has time to address. Because healing isn't about reaching a finish line. It's about finding peace in the journey itself. Where moments make memories, and memories are how we make every day count. Brought to you by the team at The Serenity Project 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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  • A Map, Not a Treatment with Dr. Katherine Willow ND

    A Map, Not a Treatment with Dr. Katherine Willow ND
    Oct 19 2026
    Dr. Katherine Willow ND has buried her mother, all three of her grandparents, her younger sister and her husband, all to cancer. For 43 years she has kept showing up for other families as a naturopathic doctor, and when Bron asks how she keeps choosing this work after so much loss, her answer is simple: the work chose her. In this episode Katherine shares her own framework and her patients' experiences. German New Medicine isn't supported by medical research. At The Serenity Project we believe complementary approaches sit alongside medical treatment, never instead of it, so please talk to your treating team before stopping or delaying any treatment. Katherine is a fourth generation naturopathic doctor and the founder of Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre, a 190 acre healing centre near Ottawa in Canada. When her husband Mickey was diagnosed with brain tumours, she came across German New Medicine, developed by Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer, and after Mickey died in 2002 she spent a year researching it with seven pages of questions before bringing it into her practice. The framework connects emotional shocks with specific changes in the brain and the body, and reads symptoms as belonging to either a stress phase or a healing phase. In this conversation Katherine explains the principles as she applies them, why she describes German New Medicine as a map rather than a treatment, and why she is careful not to apply it to everything. She is also honest about its limits: she was losing people to fear, and she now tells frightened patients to do their conventional treatment and let her support them alongside it. Bron shares her own path from passive bystander to CEO of her own ecosystem, and together they talk about carers, death, choosing your sources wisely, and why stillness is where our wisdom lives. Serenity Rising is an interest only podcast. Nothing in this episode is medical advice, so please talk with your own treating team before making any change to your care. In This Episode Losing five family members to cancer, and why Katherine says the healing work chose her Reading about German New Medicine on a flight at 1am, and sending Mickey's brain scans to its founder Katherine's account of what Mickey's autopsy showed, and the year of research that followed The basic principles: emotional shock, the brain, and the body's response Why she calls German New Medicine a map, not a treatment, and why not every condition has an emotional cause Stress phase and healing phase, and why she sees inflammation as the body trying to heal Two cases from her practice, and why she stresses they are not typical The hardest lesson of her career: losing people to fear, and why she now says do your treatment first Bron's vortex of fear, and becoming the CEO of her own ecosystem The basketball time out, and why the next play matters more than the whole season For carers: the ten minute power nap, and why Katherine treats a partner as seriously as the patient Death, fear and the experiences that changed Katherine's view of what comes after What serenity means to Katherine: connectedness, found in stillness Her book, German New Medicine: Experiences in Practice, and her final message to slow down Make every day count my friend. Bron -- Resources Mentioned The Tapping Solution, free EFT tapping resources: https://www.thetappingsolution.com/new-home/ Kerri Chinner on Serenity Rising: https://push.fm/fl/x4qge6fe -- Connect With Katherine Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre: https://ecowellness.com My book: German New Medicine, Experiences in Practice by Katherine Willow N.D., available through Amazon The Free Website: http://www.learninggnm.com/ -- Connect With The Serenity Project Website: https://serenityproject.com.au Instagram: https://instagram.com/bron_watson Facebook: https://facebook.com/bronwatsonme LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bronwatson YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BronWatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    45 min
  • Unsolicited Cancer Advice: How to Sort What Helps

    Unsolicited Cancer Advice: How to Sort What Helps
    Oct 13 2026

    Advice starts arriving the moment you are diagnosed with cancer, and it rarely stops. In the final episode of Season 2, Bron goes solo to talk about the advice nobody asks for, from the email linking to a cure made from ground apricot kernels, to the text blaming her lifestyle choices, to the coach who told her that her second diagnosis came because she had not done enough of the work after the first.

    Bron builds the episode around a single image. Someone standing at your front door with their eye to the keyhole sees a sliver of hallway, and none of the kitchen bench covered in medications and appointment letters, the three o'clock wakefulness, the energy calculations before every commitment, or the grief that sits quietly in a room of its own.

    She names the five familiar shapes unsolicited advice takes, cure, attitude, comparison, minimising and timeline advice, and explains why the timeline kind lands hardest for people living with a cancer that does not end.

    Nine years into treatment across two diagnoses, now on maintenance for multiple myeloma, she shares her specialist's description of it as a marathon without a finish line, and why she thanks science every day for the gift of time.

    Bron also turns the keyhole on herself. Drawing on a moment from her early years as a nurse, when she was so firmly in the disease lane that she missed the grief of a patient's wife, she reflects on why this conversation is not about good people and bad people, but about where you are standing.

    Every one of us has looked through someone else's keyhole and felt far more certain than we had any right to be.

    In this episode, Bron explores

    • The five shapes unsolicited advice usually takes, and why so much of it arrives wrapped in love

    • Why timeline advice lands hardest when you are living with a cancer that has no finish line

    • Why the people closest to us are sometimes looking through the keyhole too

    • What Bron learned as a nurse about carers living through cancer as much as the patient

    • Where cancer treatment misinformation really comes from, according to recent research

    • Name the keyhole, and the simple question Bron comes back to: is it real?

    • Sort it, don't swallow it, using three doors: keep, check with your senior leadership team, and return to sender with love

    • Hand them a key, and how to redirect someone's love to where it can actually land

    As always, Bron does the research to what it tells us about unsolicited advice, positivity and personal choice.

    If you have ever felt your whole experience quietly written out of the story, this one is for you, and for the people who love you.

    Share it with someone who is trying to help and come and join The Serenity Project through the newsletter with our community opening soon.

    Make every day count my friends.

    Connect With The Serenity Project

    Website: https://serenityproject.com.au

    Instagram: https://instagram.com/bron_watson

    Facebook: https://facebook.com/bronwatsonme

    LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bronwatson

    YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BronWatson

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

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    23 min
  • Given No Choices, She Made Her Own with Emma Victoria Johnson

    Given No Choices, She Made Her Own with Emma Victoria Johnson
    Oct 6 2026
    Emma Victoria Johnson was 43, fit, healthy and diligent with her annual mammograms when she was told she had stage four breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes and liver. Seventeen years earlier she had lost her mum to lung cancer within six months of diagnosis, so she knew exactly how fast this disease can move. Within weeks, her relationship of seven years ended, the luxury beauty business she had spent more than a decade building in Newcastle closed, and friends fell away. In Australia, Emma says she was offered no surgery, chemotherapy or radiation because her cancer was too advanced, only two palliative tablets and a timeline. So she made her own choice and got on a plane to Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, for integrative treatment that combines immune based therapies with conventional medicine, including the hormone blocker she still takes today. In this conversation, Bron and Emma, who have both lived through breast cancer, talk about the split second decision that said I am not ready to die, what it takes to trust your own voice when the people who love you think you are crazy, and the head noise that arrives before every scan. Emma shares why she goes to every scan alone, how Guns N' Roses and meditation pull her back, and how documenting her treatment on Instagram grew into a community of more than 50,000 people who carry her through the hard days. Her latest scans show her breast and lymph nodes clear, with one stubborn area in her liver still being treated. When Bron asks what serenity means to her, Emma describes surrendering to, and becoming, your inner warrior: going through the darkest place and rising into the best version of yourself. As the youngest of three sisters she was always the softest, the princess, and she never knew she had strength in her until cancer asked for it. "I have found my inner warrior and I activate my warrior mode," she says. Now, whenever a new treatment or a needle frightens her, she goes inside herself and finds her. Serenity Rising is an interest only podcast. Emma shares her personal experience of integrative treatment at Oasis of Hope, where she is now a patient ambassador, and nothing in this episode is medical advice. Please talk with your own medical team about any treatment decisions. In This Episode Losing her mum to lung cancer at 26, and receiving her own stage four diagnosis 17 years later A weekend behind locked doors, and the moment she decided: I am not willing to die A tsunami upon a tsunami: losing her partner, her business and her friends within weeks, and asking who am I now Why the internet rabbit hole of cancer advice became too much, and how she learned to listen to herself instead Being offered no surgery, chemotherapy or radiation in Australia, only palliative tablets, and choosing a plane ticket instead Walking through the doors at Oasis of Hope and feeling safe, seen, heard and, for the first time, hopeful What integrative treatment looked like for her: a 16 day first stay, hyperthermia, immune therapies, and the hormone blocker she still takes Head noise before every PET scan, and why Emma chooses to go alone Guns N' Roses or meditation: how Emma breaks the spiral, and the look up tip Bron learned from a clinical psychologist friend How sharing her journey on Instagram built a community of more than 50,000 people, and why she answers every message herself Why she is happier now than she was before cancer, and her one piece of advice: do not give up hope What serenity means to Emma: surrendering to and becoming your inner warrior, rising through the darkest times into the best version of yourself, and the warrior mode she switches on whenever a treatment or a needle frightens her. Resources Mentioned Oasis of Hope Hospital, Tijuana, Mexico: oasisofhope.com How to Starve Cancer by Jane McLelland, the first book Emma read after diagnosis The Serenity Prayer Be Where Your Feet Are, Bron Watson (coming early 2027) Related Episodes Two Cancers Later, She Found a Better Word Than Resilient with Cheyenne Heflin (S2 E16) https://push.fm/fl/jugdagss I Had Cancer. Cancer Did Not Have Me with Zulma Williams (S2 E7) https://push.fm/fl/ajfbye1p The Storm Will Pass: Bill Derrick on Business, Cancer, and Never Quitting (S2 E12) https://pages.serenityproject.com.au/serenity-rising-with-bill-derrick Your healing matters every day. Connect With Emma Instagram: emma_victoriaj https://www.instagram.com/emma_victoriaj/ TikTok: @emmavictoria_j https://www.tiktok.com/@emmavictoria_j Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emma.victoria.johnson/ Emma is a patient ambassador for Oasis of Hope Hospital: https://www.oasisofhope.com/ Connect With The Serenity Project Website: https://serenityproject.com.au Instagram: ...
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    42 min
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