OPC 051: Navigating the Emotional Roller Coaster of being Diagnosed with Cancer in Sobriety

Once we get sober, our health and the health of those we love becomes a truly precious commodity that we learn to become deeply grateful for. Receiving a life threatening diagnosis or watching the health of a loved one decline can jeopardize our recovery unless we lean into vulnerability and seek outside support. 

In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast Antoinette processes receiving a cancer diagnosis. During this coaching session, Antoinette begins to release the warrior role which she has played since childhood and learns how to find strength in vulnerability. Shannon also processes watching her mother’s health rapidly decline and learns how to release the guilt and shame that she feels when being vulnerable with those around her. 

Listen in to learn the importance of vulnerability and how it can protect our recovery when we face life altering changes and struggles. 

What You Will Learn in this Episode:

• [2:27] Antoinette talks about her reaction and feelings surrounding receiving a cancer diagnosis. 

• [4:32] The importance of remaining vulnerable when processing life changing news. 

• [11:10] How Antoinette began to play the warrior role and the toxic patterns that developed due to  childhood experiences. 

• [20:02] Antoinette starts to accept that she is strong enough and begins to see the importance of vulnerability. 

• [26:08] Shannon shares the emotional devastation that she is experiencing watching her mother’s health rapidly decline. 

• [37:50] Shannon processes how to show up for her mother, while also maintaining the boundaries that she has set within their relationship

• [40:25] Finding peace and forgiveness for yourself when supporting a dying loved one. 

• [43:44] The group offers encouraging words of love and support for both Shannon and Antoinette. 

For the show notes and links for this episode go to omarpinto.com/051.

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