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Menopause, Breast Cancer and Finding Yourself Again | Kirstie’s Story
Full conversation · 35:06 · Life After Treatment
Diagnosed at 37, Kirstie shares her experience of tamoxifen and menopause symptoms, the pressure to feel normal after treatment, and rebuilding confidence, relationships and a life that feels like her own.
Showing Up Without Trying to Fix It
Shorter film · 8:37 · Support & Community
When being there matters more than finding the right words.
When Everyone Expects You to Move On After Cancer
Shorter film · 7:14 · Life After Treatment
Life after cancer doesn’t follow someone else’s timetable.
The Human Connection in Cancer Care
Shorter film · 16:41 · Healthcare & Your Voice
The people and moments that shape an experience of care.
When Healthcare Didn’t See Me
Shorter film · 14:53 · Healthcare & Your Voice
A personal experience of being heard, recognised and understood in care.
Finding a Kinder Voice After Cancer
Shorter film · 10:56 · Mental Health & Relationships
Making space for a gentler relationship with yourself.
How Style Helped Me Reconnect With My Body
Shorter film · 11:23 · Body, Identity & Confidence
Clothes, confidence and finding a way back to yourself.
The Wig That Wasn’t Made for Me
Shorter film · 13:29 · Body, Identity & Confidence
When appearance, identity and the support on offer don’t fit together.
Preparing for Breast Surgery: Saying Goodbye to a Body Part
Shorter film · 8:13 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
The emotions around surgery and a changing body.
Inherited Breast Cancer Risk: Why Alice Chose Preventive Surgery
Shorter film · 14:09 · Genetics, Risk & Prevention
Alice shares the personal thinking behind her decision.
Eleven Operations: When Breast Reconstruction Didn’t Go to Plan
Shorter film · 7:25 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
The lived experience behind repeated operations.
When the Future Changes: Life as a Couple With Secondary Breast Cancer
Shorter film · 10:35 · Stage 4 & Recurrence
A shared life, a diagnosis and a changing sense of the future.
Choosing to Go Flat After a Second Cancer Diagnosis
Shorter film · 18:41 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
A personal conversation about surgery, choice and living flat.
Why I Fought to Live Flat
Shorter film · 16:41 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Having a choice and working to have that choice heard.
Breast Reconstruction Choices: Beyond the Operation
Shorter film · 13:26 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
The personal considerations behind a surgical decision.
When Breast Reconstruction Became a Source of Pain
Shorter film · 9:46 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Space for a difficult experience of reconstruction.
How We Talked to Our Children About Cancer
Shorter film · 8:27 · Mental Health & Relationships
Finding words for a conversation no family plans to have.
Alice: BRCA, risk and choosing preventative surgery
Full conversation · 42:08 · Genetics, Risk & Prevention
Alice talks about discovering a BRCA2 mutation, choosing preventative mastectomies and weighing reconstruction, flatness and wider risk-reducing decisions.
Anaise & Vincent: Living with Stage 4, together
Full conversation · 55:32 · Stage 4 & Recurrence
Anaise and her husband Vincent discuss Stage 4 recurrence, fertility, genetics, ongoing treatment and navigating cancer together from both lived and research perspectives.
Anna & Katie: Two friends, the same diagnosis
Full conversation · 55:25 · Mental Health & Relationships
Childhood friends Anna and Katie were diagnosed with the same type of breast cancer within two years. They talk about friendship, sharing a diagnosis and supporting each other through treatment.
Beverley: What happens when treatment ends?
Full conversation · 51:46 · Life After Treatment
Beverley explores the needs that continue after active cancer treatment, including hot flushes, lymphoedema, anxiety, sleep and complementary support.
Carly: Triple negative breast cancer, BRCA and reconstruction
Full conversation · 55:00 · Diagnosis & Treatment
Carly talks about a triple-negative diagnosis, BRCA, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, double mastectomy, DIEP reconstruction and family life through treatment.
Charlayne: What a breast cancer nurse wants patients to know
Full conversation · 53:13 · Support & Community
Charlayne brings a breast cancer nurse's perspective to patient advocacy, holistic support, young women's needs and the realities of supporting people through treatment.
Charlotte: When reconstruction doesn't go to plan
Full conversation · 54:18 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Charlotte talks about Stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer, fertility, failed reconstructions, advocating for a bilateral mastectomy and eventually living flat.
Emma L: Diagnosed Stage 4 from the start
Full conversation · 39:21 · Stage 4 & Recurrence
Emma talks about being diagnosed de novo with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, ongoing treatment, regular scans and living with uncertainty while continuing to look forward.
Emma: The symptom that changed everything
Full conversation · 38:51 · Diagnosis & Treatment
Emma describes noticing nipple discharge despite normal imaging, the importance of following symptoms up, and the role exercise and self-advocacy played in her experience.
Georgette: Understanding your reconstruction options
Full conversation · 36:06 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Georgette explains reconstruction options, timing and shared decision-making, and discusses why access and patient experience can vary.
Helena: Three diagnoses and learning to trust your voice
Full conversation · 1:04:01 · Stage 4 & Recurrence
Helena talks about recurrence, a later new primary breast cancer, PTSD, questioning healthcare decisions and navigating care as a mixed-race Black woman.
Jacqui: Representation, community and Black Women Rising
Full conversation · 50:19 · Representation & Inequalities
Jacqui talks about representation, fear and uncertainty after cancer, and the difference community and Black Women Rising made to feeling seen, heard and understood.
Juliette: Choosing to stay flat
Full conversation · 41:56 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Juliette talks about choosing not to reconstruct, having a second mastectomy for symmetry and becoming an advocate for visibility, representation and informed surgical choice.
Lisa: Why support beyond treatment matters
Full conversation · 44:28 · Support & Community
Lisa explains how local breast cancer charities provide counselling, practical help and respite, and why support outside clinical treatment can be a lifeline.
Nevo: Style, confidence and dressing after breast cancer
Full conversation · 40:39 · Body, Identity & Confidence
Nevo brings together her lived experience of breast cancer and her work in styling to explore clothing, appearance, confidence and the things other people cannot see.
Nicola: The fear that it might come back
Full conversation · 47:32 · Life After Treatment
Nicola talks about lumpectomy and radiotherapy, the uncertainty that follows treatment, fear of recurrence and the reassurance of responsive NHS follow-up care.
Priyanka: Reconstruction, family and finding your voice
Full conversation · 51:11 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Priyanka discusses triple-negative breast cancer, difficult early healthcare communication, reconstruction complications and how family shaped decisions about further surgery.
Rosie: Cancer, mortality and what comes next
Full conversation · 51:22 · Mental Health & Relationships
Rosie combines her work in cancer psychology with lived experience of Stage 4 bowel cancer, BRCA and risk-reducing mastectomy to discuss mortality, isolation, meaning and fear.
Saskia: When treatment ends but uncertainty doesn't
Full conversation · 38:34 · Life After Treatment
Saskia talks about lumpectomy and radiotherapy, post-treatment uncertainty, decisions around tamoxifen and wanting clearer, more human conversations about risk and quality of life.
Shirley: Recurrence, reconstruction and feeling like yourself again
Full conversation · 38:37 · Surgery, Reconstruction & Staying Flat
Shirley talks about recurrence, losing a reconstruction during Covid, living asymmetrically and the impact surgery and reconstruction had on confidence and identity.
Sophie: Five years on: treatment, menopause and recurrence fear
Full conversation · 56:02 · Life After Treatment
Sophie reflects on Stage 3 invasive lobular breast cancer, double mastectomy and implant reconstruction, long-term treatment, menopause and fear of recurrence.
Tamsin: Flat, feminine and still yourself
Full conversation · 54:47 · Body, Identity & Confidence
Tamsin talks about choosing to stay flat after a double mastectomy and what that meant for femininity, sexuality, clothing, confidence and feeling like herself.
Tanya: Fighting to be heard about staying flat
Full conversation · Healthcare & Your Voice
Tanya describes wanting a double mastectomy and no reconstruction, the hurdles she faced to have that choice respected and the flat community she found along the way.
Tashmia: Being heard, represented and making your own choices
Full conversation · 40:17 · Healthcare & Your Voice
Tashmia talks about treatment, reconstruction, being heard in healthcare and what it means when breast cancer support and prosthetic options do not reflect you.
Thalie: What breast cancer prevention really means
Full conversation · 1:04:55 · Genetics, Risk & Prevention
Thalie explores breast cancer prevention, modifiable risk, lifestyle and environmental factors, and how to talk about risk without placing blame on individuals.
Toni: Radiotherapy, hormone treatment and life afterwards
Full conversation · 41:22 · Life After Treatment
Toni talks about a screening-detected breast cancer, lumpectomy, radiotherapy fatigue and the effects of hormone treatment and menopause during and after Covid.
Vicki: The human side of breast cancer care
Full conversation · 49:30 · Support & Community
Vicki discusses the role of specialist breast cancer nurses, emotional continuity, communication, health inequalities and meeting people where they are.