EP19 - Unbroken Spirit: My Mom's Journey Through Breast Cancer and Beyond

In this heartfelt episode of The Art of Centering, I sit down with my mom, Kathy Goodson — artist, writer, and breast cancer survivor — to talk about her journey through faith, healing, and creativity. What begins as a conversation about spirituality unfolds into something much deeper: a story of truth-telling, recovery, and the strength it takes to rebuild life after diagnosis. My mom shares how she found her spiritual grounding not in religion, but in the rooms of Al-Anon — where honesty, love, and a higher power of her own understanding changed everything. We also talk about her evolution as an artist — from silk painting on the back porch to building her dream studio on a North Carolina mountainside — and how art became her meditation and her medicine. Through laughter, honesty, and a few tears, we reflect on what it means to live fully, to parent differently, and to see the bumps in life as just that — bumps, not endings. Whether you've been touched by cancer, walked the road of recovery, or simply love a good mother-daughter story about resilience and rediscovering joy, this episode is a reminder that love, truth, and creativity can carry us through anything.