283 | The Tools Learned to Overcome Breast Cancer and Truly Thrive with Rachel Luna

Permission to offend? We're about to get unfiltered and unafraid with Rachel Luna, author of Permission To Offend and Neuro Coach. Through her triple breast cancer journey, Rachel presents the statistics on the ethnic prevalence of triple breast cancer, bringing about awareness of medical accessibility and care to patients of different ethnic groups. She speaks to evolutionary influence on why it is difficult to have controversial conversations and what it means to speak your truth at the expense of possibly offending someone else. She further discusses being "thick" or "thin" skinned! Through her dynamic with her mother, she speaks about how to have difficult conversations with people, especially family, and provides an update on where she stands in her breast cancer journey today. Finally, she provides insight into the importance of journaling from a neuroscience perspective and what it means to shift into a state of excitement and gratitude.

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What You Will Learn In This Interview with Rachel Luna

6:00 - What is triple breast cancer?

16:37 - Why is it difficult to have political, religious, and racial conversations?

20:37 - Speaking your truth & taking offence

23:02 - How to have hard conversations with people

26:47 - Where is Rachel now with breast cancer?

29:00 - The neuroscience perspective of journaling

43:14 - How you can learn more with Rachel

To learn more about Rachel Luna and view full show notes, please visit the full website here: https://www.docjenfit.com/podcast/episode283/

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