Sick and Seeking
Sick and Seeking is hosted by Leslie Field who, after a diagnosis in her late teens of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), has been on a 22-year journey of healing and self-discovery.
In this podcast, Leslie invites you to join her for intimate, honest and heartfelt conversations with others who are also on their own healing journeys as they live with and manage the long-term effects of “dis-ease” in the body.
Listen to the stories of courageous people who, in the face of an uncertain medical future, are on a quest to go deeper into their bodies, beyond symptom and diagnosis—or in some cases no diagnosis—to reach a place of intuitive knowing, healing and transformation.
This podcast is, above all, an exploration in healing and examines a variety of modalities and knowledge from conventional medicine to holistic and complementary therapies that bring a spiritual, psychological and mystical perspective to bodily healing in our modern culture.
Sick and Seeking
Ep. 6 | Sally Wolf on Dancing Through Cancer and Using Positive Psychology to Thrive Amidst Life’s Challenges
In this episode I speak with Sally Wolf, a wellbeing advisor, advocate and speaker who empowers others to flourish both personally and professionally through her company, LightWorks. Sally leaned into this work after studying positive psychology in 2016, shortly after her first diagnosis with breast cancer. Reflecting back on her seven years as a breast cancer patient, survivor, and now Stage IV thriver, Sally openly discusses dancing her way through cancer, finding deep meaning in difficult life moments, and choosing the lens through which we go - and grow - through our biggest obstacles.
We speak about:
- Receiving her first cancer diagnosis in 2015, and how dance has been a significant part of Sally's healing journey
- Identifying tools that enable us to flourish in life, and how building that foundation of self-awareness can support us in challenging moments
- Exploring a changing body during cancer treatment
- Riding the post-head-shave emotional roller coaster of adrenaline rush to paralysis, and how a friend helped her move again
- Feeling a responsibility to share and connect with those facing cancer in the same way others supported her during treatment
- Experiencing the local recurrence of a breast cancer tumor even after a double mastectomy
- Identifying people who can be sources of support
- Listening to and acting on intuition when something is off in one’s body, even if specialists and doctors aren’t concerned
- Choosing to seek - and see - the ‘light’ in life, even when living with Stage IV cancer
- Recognizing post-traumatic growth (PTG) and its connection to resilience
- Celebrating a career pivot: Sally’s work in bringing positive psychology to the corporate world
Timestamps:
1:11 - Dance as healing
13:26 - Cancer diagnosis
24:49 - Recurrence and spread
26:06 - Trusting your intuition: A lesson from Sally's hip pain
43:18 - Positive Psychology and human flourishing
Quotes:
“Dance helps yo
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