Cancer Cured Me
Cancer Cured Me
Podcast Description
This is NOT a podcast about cancer. It’s actually more of a celebration of life and a journey of happiness, a voyage built on a simple but powerful truth: That YOU hold ALL the cards to achieve your dreams and to live your very best life. A few years ago, I received my cancer diagnosis and it felt like my world had caved in. But my journey through treatment and recovery also forced me to recognise many uncomfortable truths about my life. I’d neglected myself. I’d pushed down trauma and worried about everything and everyone all the time. Getting ill made me realise I had to stop sweating the small stuff and make lasting changes for the better. Quite literally, cancer cured me from all that crap, and in its own strange way, proved to be the catalyst that’s led me to an infinitely happier life. I want to share positive, uplifting energy with you all, to help you unlock your potential and finally free the happiness that’s inside of you. You totally deserve it. I’ll be talking to amazing guests who’ll share their stories and knowledge on a myriad of subjects, ranging from nurturing our hormonal health, to self-care in winter; from heart-wrenching stories of being bullied for being poor to becoming a multi-millionaire, to self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis; from cyclical living and nervous system regulation, to overcoming binge eating disorders, lymphatic drainage and a thousand more subjects besides. Along the way, we’ll meet inspiring entrepreneurs, powerful healers, incredible wellness experts, psychologists, coaches and amazing ‘ordinary’ people like you and I, who’ve gone through stuff and come back stronger. I’ll be talking to them all and inspiring you to get out of your own way and live your best life. I’d be delighted if you’d join me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers around themes of personal growth, health and wellness, and overcoming adversity. Specific episodes cover topics such as self-care strategies during winter, hormonal health and its impact on mental well-being, and inspirational personal transformations, like transitioning from trauma to empowerment or from corporate life to holistic coaching.
Cancer may be in the title, but this podcast is about so much more than cancer. It is about what happens when life wakes you up and you decide not to go back to sleep.
I’m Alex (La) Simms, and after an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, I began questioning how I was living, what I was carrying and why I had spent so long putting myself last. Cancer became a catalyst, but the real story is everything that came next.
On Cancer Cured Me, I have honest, uplifting conversations about healing, nervous system regulation, natural health, manifestation, spirituality, emotional wellbeing, purpose and midlife reinvention. You’ll hear from leading experts, remarkable people who have transformed their lives after illness or adversity, and from me as I share what I am learning along the way.
This podcast is for anyone who feels overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck in survival mode or simply knows there must be more to life. Expect practical tools, powerful stories, warmth, humour and new ways to feel safer in your body, trust yourself again and create a life with more energy, joy, freedom and meaning.
You shouldn’t have to wait for a diagnosis or a crisis to start living fully.
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What if one of the simplest ways to help your body feel calmer was simply to slow down your breathing?
Welcome to Part 3 of my Summer of Beautiful Breath series. This week, we’re exploring coherent breathing, a beautifully simple breathing practice where we breathe in and out for the same length of time.
We’ll practise breathing in for five counts and out for five counts, bringing the breath down to around six breaths per minute.
In this short guided practice, I explain why slowing the breath can support the relationship between our breathing, heart and nervous system and why coherent breathing is often used to help with stress, anxiety, heart rate variability (HRV) and resilience.
I’ll also guide you through a couple of minutes of coherent breathing so you can experience it for yourself.
In this episode:
• What coherent breathing actually is
• Why we’re aiming for around six breaths per minute
• The connection between breathing and heart rate variability (HRV)
• Why HRV can be a useful marker of resilience and our response to stress
• How our everyday breathing can become faster without us even noticing
• A simple guided 5-count inhale and 5-count exhale practice
• How to adapt the count to four or six if five doesn’t feel comfortable
• Why nasal and diaphragmatic breathing still matter
• How to build this into a simple daily breathwork practice
You don’t need a wearable, an app or any complicated breathwork technique. Just a few quiet minutes and your breath.
Try practising this once a day over the next week and notice what changes. Not just in the numbers, if you track HRV, but in how you actually feel.
And remember what we’ve been building throughout this series: notice your breath, bring it lower into the body, breathe through your nose where comfortable and gradually begin to slow it down.
Small practices. Repeated often. That’s where the magic can happen.
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