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Confidence After Cancer
by Gabrielle Mottershead
Have you finished cancer treatment… but don’t feel like yourself anymore?On the outside, life looks like it’s moving forward.You may be back at work. Keeping things together. Smiling when people expect you to.But underneath…You feel exhausted.Disconnected from who you used to be.And unsure how to move forward with confidence.If that sounds like you — you are exactly who this podcast is for.Hosted by 18-year breast cancer survivor and confidence coach Gabrielle Mottershead, Confidence After Cancer is for professional women who are ready to rebuild their identity, regain their energy, and feel like themselves again after treatment ends.Each week, you’ll hear:✨ Honest conversations about life after cancer✨ Practical mindset shifts to rebuild confidence✨ Support to help you stop people-pleasing and overworking✨ Guidance to help you return to work feeling grounded, clear, and in controlBecause life after cancer isn’t about going back to who you were…It’s about becoming the wo
Episodes
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When Everyone Thinks You’re Fine After Cancer, But You’re Still Struggling
From the outside, it can look as though life has returned to normal after cancer treatment. You’re back at work, meeting deadlines, looking after your family, smiling in meetings and getting things done. People see you functioning and assume you’re doing brilliantly. But inside, the experience…
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You Don't Need to Become the Woman You Were Before Cancer
One of the quietest, yet most painful thoughts many women carry after cancer is this: "I just don't feel like myself anymore." It's something Gabby hears almost every week. Sometimes it's said with tears, sometimes with frustration, and often with guilt because alongside that feeling comes the...
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When You Don’t Feel Like Yourself After Cancer
One of the most common things women say after cancer treatment is, “I just don’t feel like myself anymore.” Sometimes those words come quietly. Sometimes they come with tears. And often, they are followed by guilt because you know you are alive, you know you have survived, and you feel as though...
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Why Everyone Thinks You're Recovered (But You Don't Feel Like You Are)
One of the hardest parts of life after cancer is that the world often assumes you're fully recovered long before you feel like yourself again. People tell you how well you look. They celebrate that you're back at work. They assume life has returned to normal. Every comment comes from kindness…
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What Actually Happens in Confidence Coaching After Cancer?
If you've ever found yourself wondering whether coaching could actually help you after cancer, this episode is for you. Perhaps you've thought, What would we even talk about? Or maybe you've wondered whether coaching is just chatting, whether you'll spend the whole session crying, or whether you...
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Why You're So Hard on Yourself After Cancer
Have you noticed how often you criticise yourself since cancer treatment ended? Perhaps you tell yourself you should be coping better, you should have moved on by now, or you should be grateful because you're alive. Maybe you judge yourself for feeling tired, overwhelmed or emotional, even though...
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The Invisible Mental Load After Cancer
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I’m exhausted,” and then immediately feeling guilty because you haven’t actually done very much? Or perhaps you've looked at your diary and wondered why you feel so overwhelmed when there doesn't seem to be that much on your to-do list. If that sounds…
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The Invisible Mental Load After Cancer
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I’m exhausted,” and then immediately feeling guilty because you haven’t actually done very much? Or perhaps you've looked at your diary and wondered why you feel so overwhelmed when there doesn't seem to be that much on your to-do list. If that sounds…
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What If Nothing Changes? Moving From Waiting to Thriving
What if this is as good as it gets? It's a question many women quietly ask themselves after cancer treatment, even though they rarely say it out loud. You survive. Treatment ends. Life starts moving again. Everyone around you expects things to improve with time. You go back to work, take care of...
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Living Beyond the Fear of Recurrence
Fear of cancer recurrence is something many survivors experience, yet it is rarely spoken about openly. You finish treatment expecting life to settle down. You tell yourself that once the scans are clear, once the appointments become less frequent, once you reach a certain milestone, you'll…
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Why You Can Feel Grateful and Still Feel Lost After Cancer
In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores one of the most misunderstood parts of life after treatment: the emotional conflict between gratitude and grief. While gratitude can be a powerful part of healing, it can become problematic when it is used to silence real emotions or...
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The “I’m Fine” Mask After Cancer
Many women become incredibly good at saying: “I’m fine.” Even when they’re exhausted. Even when they’re anxious. Even when emotionally they are barely holding it all together. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores one of the most misunderstood parts of cancer recovery — the...
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Why You Still Feel Exhausted After Cancer
One of the hardest parts of life after cancer is that eventually the world stops seeing what you’ve been through. Your treatment may be over. Your hair may have grown back. You may have returned to work and started smiling in photos again. But inside, you may still feel exhausted — emotionally,...
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Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself After Cancer
One of the most confusing parts of life after cancer is when everything on the outside looks “back to normal” but inside, you still don’t feel like yourself. You may be back at work, managing responsibilities, showing up for everyone else and doing all the “right” things… yet something still…
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Why You Can Feel Grateful and Still Struggle After Cancer
One of the quietest pressures many women experience after cancer is the pressure to feel grateful all the time. And while all of those things may be true, you may also be feeling exhausted, disconnected, emotional, flat, or quietly struggling underneath it all. In this episode of Confidence After...
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“I Should Feel Better by Now” Why Life After Cancer Feels So Different
There is a thought that so many women have after cancer… but rarely say out loud: “I should feel better by now.” Treatment is over. You may be back at work. People are telling you how well you look. And yet, inside, something doesn’t feel right. You might feel flat, disconnected, emotional, or...
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The Pressure to Feel Grateful After Cancer And Why It Can Feel So Heavy
There is a quiet pressure that many women experience after cancer, and it often goes unspoken. It sounds like this: “I should feel grateful now.” On the surface, that seems like a positive mindset. People mean well when they say things like, “You must be so grateful it’s over” or “At least you’re...
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Why Life After Cancer Still Feels Hard – The Emotional Aftermath No One Talks About
“I thought I’d feel better than this…” If that thought has ever crossed your mind after cancer treatment, this episode is for you. In this week’s Confidence After Cancer, Gabby opens up about one of the most confusing and rarely discussed parts of recovery — the emotional aftermath after…
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The Hidden Loss of Confidence After Cancer
“I used to be the most confident person in the room… now I feel like I’m pretending.” If that thought has ever crossed your mind after cancer treatment, this episode is for you. In this week’s Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores something rarely spoken about — the unexpected loss of…
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Why Life After Cancer Feels So Confusing and What It Really Means
Life after cancer is supposed to feel like a fresh start… right? Treatment is finished. You may be back at work. Everyone expects you to move on. But instead of feeling relieved or triumphant, many women find themselves thinking: “I don’t feel like myself anymore.” “Why does this feel harder than...
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The Gratitude Trap – When People Pleasing After Cancer Steals Your Confidence
After cancer treatment, many women are told: “You must be so grateful to be alive.” And while that’s true… something else can quietly happen beneath the surface. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores what she calls the gratitude trap — when genuine gratitude slowly turns into...
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The Emotional Shift After Cancer No One Talks About
Many women expect that once cancer treatment ends, life will begin to feel normal again. But for many, the opposite happens. You may find yourself feeling more emotional than before. More sensitive to pressure. More easily overwhelmed by things that never used to affect you. And that can lead to…
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“I Should Feel Better By Now…” The Truth About Life After Cancer
In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby Mottershead explores the emotional shift that many women experience after treatment but rarely hear about. Cancer does not only affect the body. It also impacts the nervous system, emotions, identity and the way you experience the world around…
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The Lie of “Back to Normal” Why You Don’t Feel Like You Used To
“You must be so glad to be back to normal.” It’s one of the most common and unhelpful phrases women hear after cancer treatment ends. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores why “back to normal” is a myth, and why trying to force yourself into your old life can quietly create...
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Setting Boundaries After Cancer
After cancer treatment, your energy is different. Your tolerance for pressure may have changed. And yet many women still find themselves over-committing, people-pleasing, and feeling pulled in multiple directions. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores why boundaries are...
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Rebuilding Confidence Through Self-Care, Boundaries and Inner Dialogue
After cancer treatment ends, rebuilding confidence does not usually happen in one bold leap. It happens in small, consistent choices — the way you care for yourself, the way you speak to yourself, and the boundaries you begin to set. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores…
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Why You Feel Lost After Cancer & Why Nothing Is Wrong With You
Many women quietly admit this after cancer treatment ends: “I don’t understand why I feel so unsettled. Everything looks fine on the outside, but something feels off.” In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby speaks directly to that feeling — the sense of being lost, unanchored, or…
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You Don’t Need Fixing – Learning Self-Leadership After Cancer
After cancer or a major life event, many women are left feeling as though they should be “back to normal” by now. That if confidence hasn’t returned, if motivation feels flat, or if life feels different, then something must be wrong. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby gently...
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A Gentle Pause – When Life Feels Heavy
This episode is for the moments when life feels heavy and you don’t want to talk it through, analyse it, or make sense of it. You don’t need insight. You don’t need motivation. You don’t need to be positive. You just need a pause. In this short, gentle episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby...
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A Gentle Start to the Year – Choosing Presence Over Pressure
This episode marks a quiet and meaningful return to the Confidence After Cancer podcast. Rather than beginning the year with big declarations or rushing back into life, Gabby shares why 2026 started differently for her, shaped by family, reflection, grief, gratitude, and a conscious decision to...
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A Gentle New Year Reset After Cancer
If you’re listening to this episode as it’s released, happy New Year’s Eve. And if not, this episode is still exactly what you need right now. This is not an episode about resolutions. It’s not about fixing yourself, pushing harder, or promising to be more productive. In this final episode of the...
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Boundaries, Burnout, and the Power of Saying No After Cancer
If the word boundaries makes you feel uncomfortable, guilty, or like you’re about to disappoint someone, this episode is for you. In today’s episode, Gabby talks openly about burnout after cancer, why it hits so hard, and why learning to say no isn’t selfish, rude, or ungrateful, it’s essential…
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Food, Mood, and Rebuilding Confidence After Cancer
After cancer treatment ends, food becomes so much more than food. It becomes emotional, confusing, filled with questions, rules, guilt, comfort, and sometimes even fear. One moment you're enjoying a slice of toast, and the next your mind whispers, “Should I be eating this? Should I be juicing…
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When Fear Creeps In: Living Fully Even When You're Afraid of Cancer Coming Back
If you’ve ever felt a sudden ache, waited for a scan result, or simply been watching television when your mind whispers, “What if…?”, this episode is for you. Today, Gabby speaks directly to the fear that so many women carry long after treatment ends: the fear of cancer returning. It’s the fear…
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Emotional Resilience at Work – Staying Calm, Centred and Confident
Ever find yourself sitting in a meeting thinking, “If one more person mentions a quick turnaround, I might just scream”? Then this episode is for you. In this week’s Confidence After Cancer, Gabby dives into the topic of emotional resilience at work — how to stay calm, centred and confident when...
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Advocacy at Work: Reclaiming Your Voice After Cancer
After facing something as life-changing as cancer, you shouldn’t have to apologise for needing flexibility, setting boundaries, or asking for what you deserve. But many women find that when they return to work, their confidence in speaking up feels smaller than ever. In this week’s episode of...
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The Thriver’s Toolkit: Small Daily Habits to Help You Heal
Thriving after cancer doesn’t happen by accident. It’s built one small, intentional habit at a time. In this week’s episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby introduces her Thriver’s Toolkit — a set of simple daily practices that can help you feel calmer, stronger, and more focused as you rebuild...
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The Art of the Selective Yes – Protecting Your Energy After Cancer
Confidence isn’t just about what you say yes to, it’s about learning when to say no. In this week’s episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby explores what she calls the art of the selective yes: how to protect your energy, your time, and your peace by saying yes only to what truly serves you....
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The Confidence Comeback Plan: Rebuilding Your Strength After Cancer
After cancer, or any major life event, confidence can take a knock. You may look fine on the outside, but inside you feel flat, anxious, or unsure of who you are now. Your body has changed, your priorities may have shifted, and the world around you might still expect you to be your “old self.” In...
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Why Joy Is Part of Healing: How Fun, Friendship & Self-Care Help You Thrive After Cancer
After cancer treatment, so many women focus on recovery through rest, nutrition, and discipline — but there’s another vital ingredient that often gets forgotten: JOY. 🌸 In this uplifting episode of Confidence After Cancer, Cancer Recovery Coach Gabby Mottershead shares how her trip to Cyprus…
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Feel Like Yourself After Cancer? Here’s How to Rebuild Your Identity and Confidence Again
When treatment ends, everyone expects you to feel grateful, relieved, maybe even “back to normal.” But what if you don’t recognise yourself anymore? In this heartfelt episode of Confidence After Cancer, host Gabrielle Mottershead — 17-year breast cancer survivor and confidence coach — explores…
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Managing Your Energy After Cancer – Understanding the Spoon Theory
Feeling wiped out, no matter how much you rest? You’re not imagining it — post-cancer fatigue is real, and it’s one of the most common challenges survivors face after treatment. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, your host Gabrielle Mottershead — 17-year breast cancer survivor and...
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How to Say No at Work Without Feeling Guilty
After cancer, so many women fall into the trap of trying to make everyone else happy — even when they’re running on empty. Sound familiar? You want to be kind, helpful, and reliable… but saying “yes” too often leaves you exhausted and resentful. In this empowering episode of Confidence After...
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Nobody Talks About This: The Hidden Struggles Women Face After Cancer Treatment
Everyone celebrates when treatment ends — but what happens after the applause stops? For so many women, life after cancer isn’t just about recovery. It’s about navigating fear, fatigue, identity loss, and the pressure to “bounce back” when you still feel anything but normal. In this honest and...
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Letting Go of Clutter: Create Space for the Next Chapter
Hello lovely — it’s Gabby here from Confidence After Cancer! This week, we’re talking about one of my favourite forms of self-care: decluttering — not just for a tidy home, but for the emotional space, energy, and freedom it brings. Just like the trees release their leaves in autumn, it’s time to...
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How to Make Your Home a Safe Haven for Healing After Cancer
Welcome back, lovely — it’s Gabby here from Confidence After Cancer. 💕 After treatment ends, you focus so much on your body and mindset — but what about your environment? The truth is, your home can either help your healing or quietly drain your energy. In this short and empowering episode, I...
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5 Simple Toxin-Free Swaps for a Healthier Life
In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, Gabby Mottershead shares five powerful yet simple lifestyle changes that can help reduce toxins in your home and support your long-term health. Following last week’s discussion about hidden toxins, Gabby dives deeper into practical, everyday swaps you…
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3 Easy Swaps to Reduce Toxins and Boost Healing After Cancer
After cancer, your body deserves the cleanest, gentlest care — inside and out. In this episode of Confidence After Cancer, I share three simple, affordable swaps to help you detox your home, reduce your toxic load, and protect your healing body. You’ll learn: ✅ What hidden toxins are and where...
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Beyond Diagnosis: Cultivating a Thriving Mindset
When the hospital visits stop and everyone expects you to "get back to normal," it can leave you wondering… Who even am I now? In this heartfelt episode of Confidence After Cancer, I share the 3 powerful identity shifts that helped me stop feeling stuck in survival mode and start creating a new...
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62 and Thriving: Self-Care, Gratitude, and Healing After Cancer
In this heartfelt solo episode, Gabby reflects on her 62nd birthday and shares powerful insights on healing, self-care, and learning to love yourself again after cancer. Whether you're fresh out of treatment or still figuring out who you are now, this episode is for you. Gabby opens up about the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Have you finished cancer treatment… but don’t feel like yourself anymore?On the outside, life looks like it’s moving forward.You may be back at work. Keeping things together. Smiling when people expect you to.But underneath…You feel exhausted.Disconnected from who you used to be.And unsure how to move forward with confidence.If that sounds like you — you are exactly who this podcast is for.Hosted by 18-year breast cancer survivor and confidence coach Gabrielle Mottershead, Confidence After Cancer is for professional women who are ready to rebuild their identity, regain their energy, and feel like themselves again after treatment ends.Each week, you’ll hear:✨ Honest conversations about life after cancer✨ Practical mindset shifts to rebuild confidence✨ Support to help you stop people-pleasing and overworking✨ Guidance to help you return to work feeling grounded, clear, and in controlBecause life after cancer isn’t about going back to who you were…It’s about becoming the wo
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Have you finished cancer treatment… but don’t feel like yourself anymore?On the outside, life looks like it’s moving forward.You may be back at work. Keeping things together. Smiling when people expect you to.But underneath…You feel exhausted.Disconnected from who you used to be.And unsure how to...
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