Tools for Survivorship with Dr. Elenora Teplinsky
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
Release Date: 09/27/2026
Tools for Survivorship with Dr. Elenora Teplinsky
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
I'm back for a short season interviewing my personal favorite oncologist friends... the first of which has published a wonderful book that goes on sale today! I'm sure you've heard of Dr. Teplinsky if you've been on the breast cancer end of Instagram. She's an amazing collaborator with some really wise doctors who are trying to broaden lifestyle limits that most of us breast cancer patients and survivors encounter every day--things like dry skin, brittle bones, stiff joints, and incontinance. Most oncologists don't even speak to these post menopausal and hormone blocker symptoms, but Dr. T has...
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Season Two Finale on ACTIVISM
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
I'd hoped to make season two an even 20 episodes again, but there's more important work to be done right now.... Transcript: Well, I had hoped to have three more episodes before closing for the summer, but I had a long month and a half off after my dad's passing, and I didn't get back on until last, uh, two weeks ago. And in the meantime, our country seems to be in quite a bit of turmoil. Our world seems to be in quite a bit of turmoil and I don't feel comfortable kind of moving merrily along on my path, just ignoring that at this point in time. I've always been an activist, at...
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Yoga for Breast Cancer with Nanette Labastida
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
My colleague and friend Nanette has been leading yoga for breast cancer survivors for the past few years in her community of Austin Texas, even as she's navigated the tough journey of recurrent metastatic disease in her bones. I think you'll love her spirit as she shares her story... Link to yoga4cancer: https://yoga4cancer.com/ Transcript: Today's guest is Nanette Labastida. She's in Austin, Texas, and she and I have been ambassadors together for Stand Tall AFC over the years. She is a realtor by trade, and her passion is yoga, which we'll talk about at the end of the interview. But I want to...
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Reflecting on Integrative Oncology
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
Just a quick episode reflecting on Heather's story and the difference between "functional" or "integrative medicine" and "alternative" medicine. Subscribe on: - Join my Newsletter List here: Heather's web site is: https://heatherjose.com/ and her podcast is here on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@ImStillHereCancer/videos Kathleen does zoom based peer navigation/mentoring sessions now. Schedule a session here for a sliding scale of $35 to $95 per hour long session: https://kathleenmoss.simplybook.me/ Transcript:  Those of you listening on the day that this...
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26 Year Metastatic Thriver, Heather Jose
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
My guest Heather has been thriving with metastatic breast cancer for nearly 27 years! How did she do it? She feels that it's a combination of things--not necessarily the trial on stem cell therapy combined with high-dose chemo. She feels that her long-term drug, Faslodex, as well as lifestyle choices around nutrition, exercise and mindset are key in her success. Heather's web site is: https://heatherjose.com/ and her podcast is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@ImStillHereCancer/videos Kathleen does zoom based peer navigation/mentoring sessions now. Schedule a session here for a sliding...
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Giving Back Through Breast Cancer Advocacy
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
Today's episode is part two of my advocacy series. I hope it's helpful, but if volunteerism and advocacy isn't your thing, I'll have more stories from guests coming up in the next two weeks! Subscribe on: - - Join my Newsletter Mailing List: Links: NBCC: LBCA: Tigerlily Foundation (WOC, young ambassadors locally): Inflammatory Breast Cancer Network: Project Life MBC (metastatic): Project Life MBC/LGBTQ: MBC Alliance (metastatic): Triple Negative Foundation: Stand Tall AFC: Not Putting on a Shirt: Make Cancer Less Shitty: Young Survival...
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The ABC's of Breast Cancer Advocacy
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
Today I'm just talking from my own experience about some of the simpler ways to "stay in" the breast cancer community as an active advocate. Here are some of the organizations that came up: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis gives and trains mentors here: Stand Tall AFC is the flat visibility organization that I work for: Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance welcomes advocates of all types: Wildfire Magazine is here: AskEllyn's blog is here: Blessing Box, out of Texas, is here: Knitted Knockers is here: Transcript: Today I want to talk about advocacy, and I...
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Good News--No Recurrence! and a New Substack
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
Subscribe on: - - Join my Newsletter List here: Transcript: Hello friends and happy Spring. I do not have a guest today, and that might be shocking to some of you who've just started listening to this podcast because for the last five episodes I've had guests and that is really unusual. From the very beginning in season one, I always did one podcast episode with a guest and then followed it up with some commentary and reflection on what we talked about. But for many reasons, this last month and a half has been different. And I've just done guest after guest after guest, uh, mostly...
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Fashion Model Gone Flat: Christine Handy
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
My friend Christine joins me on this week's podcast to tell her story of explant and continued success as a model after her second "mastectomy," going flat and embracing her concave chest publicly on the runway. Her new biopic is coming out on April first in LA and she's invited us breast cancer survivors to come. Shoot me an email to find out how. ...and Subscribe on: - - Join my Newsletter List here: Resources: We spoke about Christine's new film premiering on April first. Here's ! You can buy tickets to , but be sure you can come first because we really want to fill...
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Asking Ellyn about Breast Cancer
A Breast Cancer Diary with Kathleen Moss
My guest today is a breast cancer advocate who uses her voice and her writing to walk alongside new patients in so many ways--she has a blog, a memoir, and now she's got an AI companion for those who haven't found a human connection yet, to process their breast cancer experience with. Her web site is called "AskEllyn.ai" and that's where you can find all of her offerings. Ellyn wrote her story of going flat just a couple of years ago while sitting in the chemo chair. Today she's collaborating with functional practitioners as well as brand new breast cancer patients to put out a...
info_outlineI'm back for a short season interviewing my personal favorite oncologist friends... the first of which has published a wonderful book that goes on sale today! I'm sure you've heard of Dr. Teplinsky if you've been on the breast cancer end of Instagram. She's an amazing collaborator with some really wise doctors who are trying to broaden lifestyle limits that most of us breast cancer patients and survivors encounter every day--things like dry skin, brittle bones, stiff joints, and incontinance. Most oncologists don't even speak to these post menopausal and hormone blocker symptoms, but Dr. T has an amazing toolbox full of suggestions and her book is a great summary of them all. I hope you'll enjoy learning from her here.
We talk about: the Wisdom Study for those at higher risk, the safe use of estrogen and other supplemental hormone precursers like DHEA and Testosterone, the dangers of alcohol use before and after cancer, and the new ways that AI, in its current basic form, has shown to be promising for breast cancer science.
Even though Elenora is an oncoloist--she's not YOUR oncologist, so don't take her or my words as medical advice please!
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https://interludecancerstories.com/book/
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