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Books Blogs and Podcasts
The Cancer Caregiver Podcast
The Cancer Caregiver Podcast is where overwhelmed caregivers find relief, validation, and practical support. Hosted by Charlotte Bayala, each short episode offers proven tools to manage stress, ease scanxiety, and reclaim energy while navigating the demands of caregiving. Through real stories and compassionate guidance, Charlotte reminds you that your wellbeing matters too. If you’ve ever felt invisible or exhausted by caregiving, this podcast gives you the strategies and hope you need.
Read More...AYA Cancer: Unfiltered
In this podcast, we will bring the pages of Elephants and Tea Magazine to life – having tough conversations about the realities of going through cancer as an AYA. If you or someone you love has experienced cancer as an adolescent or young adult, you know how isolating and lonely it can feel. We hope that despite what you are going through, you find comfort knowing that you are not alone and that there is a Herd of people who get it here for you.
Read More...Brave Like Mom
A poignant and sensitive story about a loved one living with a chronic illness, and an important lesson about how being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared.
Read More...Don’t Call it a Journey Podcast
If you are a member of this “club” that you didn’t ask to join, you know that the so-called ‘journey’ of cancer really doesn’t end. Join Lisa Orr as we hear from members of the AYA cancer community talk about REAL topics around navigating a cancer diagnosis as a young adult.
Read More...Life on Pause
Life on Pause is a podcast created for and by young adults treated at Penn State Health. The podcast explores the experience of being a young adult with cancer through story-telling, interviews and explorations of various topics and themes.
Read More...Wife, Widow, Now What?
Wife, Widow, Now What?: How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can, Too. This is the first of its kind to be written in this hybrid style of a memoir and self-help by a cancer spouse/significant other for other spouses/significant others or those navigating the cancer process. In addition Rachel includes all the music she listened to during her journey, if you’d like to make a playlist for your reading pleasure.
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