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Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

Von: Bron Watson the Serenity Project
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 You believe healing is more than scans and treatments. Healing can be emotional, spiritual, and it's very, very personal. And here's the thing, you're allowed to not have it all figured out. You're allowed to rest and you're allowed to cry and grieve and hope all in the same breath. Welcome to the Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer with your host Bron Watson. This show isn't about fighting or surviving. It's about finding your north star that helps you find calm in the chaos of cancer. Here, we believe in both science and soul, evidence and perspective, where everyone can heal, even when a cure is not an option. Each week will offer different ways for you to find out what you need, what to expect. We'll offer different ways for you to find what you need from the heart. These are honest reflections for the hard days. Think of us sitting around a campfire. Power cards, quick soul nourishing thoughts when you need a reset. We call these the serenity now moments, where it's possible to flip the switch on the negative feeling that comes with cancer. There are also listener Q&As, where I answer real questions from you. And powerful interviews, stories of people making meaning through the chaos. Serenity Rising isn't just a podcast, it's a community, because your healing matters. Where moments make memories, and memories are how we make every day count. Learn more at http://www.serenityproject.com.au/2025 Alternative & Komplementäre Medizin Hygiene & gesundes Leben Persönliche Entwicklung Persönlicher Erfolg
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  • The Three Questions No One Prepares You For

    The Three Questions No One Prepares You For
    Apr 15 2026
    Am I going to die? Did I cause this? And who am I now? In this deeply personal episode of Serenity Rising, Bron sits with the three questions that arrive after a cancer diagnosis and rarely get the time and space they deserve. Drawing on lived experience, psychological research, and hard-won wisdom, Bron explores how to stop carrying these questions alone, and how to learn to live alongside them with grace. SHOW NOTES In this solo episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson explores the three questions that almost every person touched by cancer carries but rarely says out loud. These aren't medical questions. They're human ones. And they deserve more than a clinical answer. The first question, "Am I going to die?" is really about control, meaning, and the terror of uncertainty. Drawing on research into death anxiety and the role of meaning-making in oncology, Bron reframes this question as something to breathe inside, rather than solve. She shares what her own second diagnosis, an incurable cancer in February 2023, taught her about living with uncertainty, and how the Serenity Prayer offers a practical framework for finding the one thing you can do today. The second question "Why me? Did I cause this?" is the one that does the most quiet damage when it's left unexamined. Bron explores the neuroscience behind self-blame, the research linking it to poor mental health outcomes, and the crucial difference between understanding a contributing factor and holding yourself responsible for your own suffering. The path forward, she argues, is not self-deception, it's self-forgiveness. The third question, "Who am I now?", tends to linger the longest. Bron reflects on the grief of identity loss that accompanies a life-changing diagnosis, the research on post-traumatic growth, and why community—not just content—is essential for identity reconstruction. This is not a question with a quick answer. It is an invitation to discover who you're becoming. In this episode, Bron explores: The three unspoken questions that almost everyone with cancer is carryingWhy "Am I going to die?" is really a question about control and meaningThe research on death anxiety and the role of meaninglessness in amplifying fearHow self-blame develops and why it predicts poor mental health outcomesThe difference between understanding and blame and the power of self-forgivenessThe grief of identity loss and what post-traumatic growth research actually tells usWhy community is a clinical prerequisite for identity reconstructionAcceptance and Commitment Therapy and what the evidence says about processing difficult emotionsHow to hold these questions with grace instead of fear This episode weaves together research on death anxiety, self-blame, post-traumaticgrowth, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, all translated into honest, human language. This is an episode for anyone who has asked one of these questions in the dark and wondered if it was safe to say it out loud. It is. And you are not alone in any of it. Make every day count my friends JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website https://serenityproject.com.au/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    21 Min.
  • Science and Soul: The Story Behind The Serenity Project

    Science and Soul: The Story Behind The Serenity Project
    Apr 7 2026
    What if you didn'thave to choose between clinical medicine and the deeper, humanneed for meaning, connection, and soul? In this solo foundational episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson shares the storybehind The Serenity Project—the diagnosis that changed everything,the gap shediscovered between medical care and whole-person healing, and why she built a thirdspace where both belong. Bron also walks through the SERENITY Framework: eightprinciples that govern every decision in this project. This episode is ideal asa starting point for new listeners, or for anyone who wants tounderstand what this community stands for and why. SHOW NOTES In this solo foundational episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson takes listeners back to the very beginning—to the diagnosis that gave birth to The Serenity Project, and to the principles that have shaped it ever since. On the 23rd of February 2023, Bron heard the words again: yes, it's cancer. But this time was different. This time, the diagnosis was incurable. Multiple myeloma—a chronic illness to be managed for the rest of her life. And somewhere in those early weeks, she noticed something that would change the direction of her work: a significant gap between what the medical system could offer, and what it actually means to feel like a whole human being navigating something this big. That gap became The Serenity Project. Not a wellness program. Not toxic positivity. A third space—where science and soul sit at the same table, where clinical medicine and holistic care are both welcomed, and where no one is asked to choose. In this episode, Bron introduces: The story behind The Serenity Project and why it was builtThe concept of the third space—and why it matters for people navigating cancer or chronic illnessThe Blue Line: an internal GPS for healing that doesn't panic, doesn't judge, and simply recalibratesThe SERENITY Framework—eight principles that govern this entire project: Space, Evidence, Refuge, Empathy as Infrastructure, Narrative, Impact, Trust, and Your SerenityThe Serenity Prayer as a lived framework for daily lifeWhy this community exists for carers just as much as patients This episode is an invitation to stop searching for the right way to heal—and to find your own. To take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and know that you don't have to do this alone. Because your serenity isn't Bron's to define. It's yours. Your healing matters every day. JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website https://serenityproject.com.au/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    10 Min.
  • Serenity Now: The Courage to Speak Your Truth

    Serenity Now: The Courage to Speak Your Truth
    Mar 26 2026
    In a special twist on the Serenity Now cards series, Bron pulls two cards this week vulnerability and expectation. Most people navigating cancer or chronic illness are deeply vulnerable on the inside but rarely say what's really going on. This episode explores why expectation is the thing that stops people speaking their truth, what staying silent costs the body, and what neuroscience says happens when you find the courage to speak without expectation. Featuring peer-reviewed research on brain synchronisation, emotional suppression and inflammation, oxytocin and trust, self-compassion, and expectation violation. SHOW NOTES In this episode of Serenity Rising, Bron Watson explores: The Serenity Now cards and why this week's episode pulls two cards: vulnerability and expectationWhy people who are vulnerable on the inside stay silent about what's really going onThe "beautiful mess effect" - why we see courage in others' vulnerability but weakness in our ownHow the amygdala treats truth-telling as a threat and how expectations drive that alarmResearch linking emotional suppression to elevated inflammation (IL-6, CRP)How brains literally synchronise during honest self-disclosureOxytocin, trust, and why community is medicineSelf-compassion as the key that unlocks your voiceThe five expectations that keep people silentWhy positive expectation violations rewire the brain toward honestyThe invitation speak without expectation Resources mentioned: The Serenity Project theserenityproject.com.auSerenity Now Cards theserenityproject.com.auBrené Brown – Atlas of the Heart (2022) and Daring Greatly (2012)Kristin Neff – Self-Compassion (Annual Review of Psychology, 2023)Full APA 7th reference list in companion research notes "You are not lacking vulnerability. You are full of it. What you need is not more bravery. It's more kindness – toward yourself and more spaces where the truth is welcome." – Bron Watson JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website https://serenityproject.com.au/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bronwatsonme Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bron_watson/ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bronwatson Have a question or feedback? You can leave a message here: https://fanlist.com/serenityproject
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    18 Min.
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