Join Melanie as she dives into the 2nd episode in our series on Clinical Trials: Intimacy after Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

Melanie and Karen discuss Communication as it relates to intimacy after breast cancer and Melanie offers some tips and ways to reframe thoughts.

Join us next time for episode 3 in the series.

Melanie discusses with Karen a new clinical trial that she is participating in that tackles issues of intimacy after a breast cancer diagnosis. This is the first of several parts in a series. Next podcast Melanie will talk about furthering intimacy through communication.

Resources that we talked about on the podcast were:

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

Places to learn more about clinical trials:

towercancer.org

clinicaltrials.gov

cancer.org

Karen and Melanie interview Tracy Marquis who does Electro Lymphatic Therapy. She helps us to understand the lymphatic system and how lymph nodes work.

Tracy can be found at:

feelthetransformation.net

360-870-7923

tracy@feelthetransformation.net

For those that have been following Melanie's journey, this is an update and we talk a little bit about progression, weight loss and a few other things.

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Brenna is an Oncology Aesthetician and talks with Karen and Melanie about her training and services she offers. This is a fascinating topic and we are so glad that these resources are available to people going through treatment.

You can find Brenna at orchardhousespa@gmail.com

orchardhousespa.com

@orchardhousespa

haleandhush.com

Join Karen and Melanie as they interview breast cancer survivor Alexa Johnson. Her story is raw and vulnerable and it will touch you. So grab your tissues and listen to her heartfelt story.

We gave shoutouts during the podcast to Amy at The MayDay Foundation. Her foundation helps people with bills while they are dealing with treatment. Incredible organization. She can be found at maydayfoundation.org.

We also talk about the American Cancer Society Cancer Action network. They can be found at fightcancer.org.

Karen and Melanie interview breast cancer survivor Andrea Wallace. She tells her story of survival and hope.

Shoutout to Travis at Fleshworks Tattoo in Olympia. Travis does mastectomy cover tattoos on Mondays for free. They can be found @fleshworks.tattoostudio.

In this episode Karen and Melanie discuss doing the normal things that don't have anything to do with cancer and finding ways to do things that make you happy.