Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast
Welcome to the Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast.
In this podcast, we’ll explore all aspects of living through a child’s cancer diagnosis. We’ll speak with parents, experts, caregivers, and maybe even the children themselves, to understand the issues, the risks, the struggles and triumphs. We’ll talk about how to cope, how to support your child, how to ask for (and accept) help from your family and friends, and how to handle all of the day-to-day challenges that you may face while on your child’s journey.
This is the information, and the community, I wish I had when my child was diagnosed with leukemia. My goal is to educate, to support and to inspire anyone who is living through a paediatric cancer diagnosis.
Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast
Episode 3 - The Darkness and the Light
As you would expect, there is a lot of darkness that follows a child’s cancer diagnosis. In this episode, we acknowledge the feelings of darkness that one may encounter while on this journey... Not to bring anyone down; Simply to call attention to the reality of this experience, and to help others to see that they are not alone in their sadness or their fear.
Surprisingly, there are also moments of light. There is a realization that, without this experience, there are things that we would not have learned, or people we would not have met. So, the light deserves some attention, too, because it is helpful to remember that even in despair, life can be beautiful.