Personal experience, Season 6, Secondary breast cancer
In this episode, Laura talks to Helen about grief. They talk about how grief isn’t just about losing someone, but about the loss of anything: your hair, your body image, your friendships, the life you hoped you’d have.
Grief is not a failure. It’s nothing broken. I think we grieve the things we’ve loved, the people we’ve loved, the life that we would have loved to have. And the depth of our grief is the depth of our love.
- Helen
Psychotherapist Helen, who lives with secondary breast cancer, talks about grief in all its forms, and why it's important to accept it.
Drawing on her own experience, Helen shares the grief she’s experienced as part of her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, and how that grief extends to losing friends in the breast cancer community she’s a part of. She also promotes acceptance of grief and anger as emotions that should be recognised and lived with, and shares some outlooks that may help others see their grief in a new light.
You can read Helen's writing on Substack
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