I Have Cancer. I’m Not Going Anywhere.
I built Rebel Midlife on one idea. You are not broken. You are depleted. And depletion doesn’t get fixed by hiding, hustling harder, or handling it alone.
I’ve said that to thousands of women.
Now I get to find out if I actually believe it.
I have breast cancer.
This isn’t new territory for me, not entirely, but it’s also not something I’m willing to handle the way I handled it last time, which was quietly, alone, and without telling almost anyone.
If I taught women to stop disappearing into their own lives to keep everyone else comfortable, and then I quietly disappeared the second things got hard for me, that would make everything I’ve built here kind of meaningless.
So I’m not doing that.
Here’s what’s true right now.
I’m scared.
This is a disease that’s taken people I love, and pretending that doesn’t sit with me wouldn’t be honest.
It’s also true that I plan on beating this.
Both of those things live in me at the same time, every single day, and honestly, that’s probably the most relatable thing about this whole situation.
Most of you know exactly what it’s like to hold two opposite feelings at once and just keep going.
So what does that mean for The Love Your Naked Ass Podcast?
For a while, things might look a little different.
Posts might come at odd times. The podcast might skip a week or month here and there.
I don’t have a treatment plan locked in yet, which means I can’t hand you a content calendar either.
I’m not going to apologize every time that happens. I’m also not going to pretend it’s not happening.
If you want the real, week to week version, the fear, the appointments, the decisions, the good days and the genuinely awful ones, I started writing it all down in a series called My Body My Fight on the Substack. That’s where this lives in real time.
Everything else, the recipes, the rebuilding, the boundaries, the basics, that’s not going anywhere either.
It might just come on a schedule that looks more like real life than a content plan. Which, if you think about it, has kind of always been the point.
I’m scared.
But I’m not going anywhere.
