Facing Death and then... living your life

Life is not perfect. Happiness is not perfect. Andrea tells her struggles of recording Episode 5. She practices letting go if her own expectations about this podcast project. Andrea also tells her story about a box of memories she kept while going through breast cancer treatment. Enjoy!

On this episode, Andrea gives an initial overview of what it was her breast cancer treatment. And through an exercise of creating a plan of action, she shares one of her biggest fears and what she is doing to face it, and learn to live with it.

This episode is mostly about recognizing the common emotions when receiving bad news. Andrea opens up about how she discovered she got breast cancer at 37 years old, and some of the struggles of sharing bad news with others.

Join Andrea, and listen to her talk about Emotional Resilience. When she went through her Breast Cancer journey, she didn’t consider being negative as an option for her. Through the articles she read, and a TED talk she listened to, she shares the steps she found to build Emotional Resilience for any challenges we might face in our lives.

On this episode, Andrea talks about life’s first chance, accepting the reality of life and death, and why are we afraid to talk about death. She questions how do you face any form of death, from a place of courage or fear.

First episode for this podcast idea I had a year ago. In this episode, you will hear about why the podcast didn’t happen last year, some of the reasons behind this podcast, and wishing everybody a happy new year. Many of us, have faced a form of death. It could be a physical threat, or an emotional one. This podcast is about life, death and what can happen in between.Andrea Acosta-Duarte de Funk