Heather Albrecht Coaching

Helping young breast cancer patients & survivors find resilience, joy, and peace beyond treatment 🩷
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04/08/2026

Can we talk about feeling gaslit by your own symptom list?

When I was going through radiation, I felt like dog poo. And not the symptoms on the official 'breast radiation side effects' list. Different things. Things that weren't anywhere on the handout they gave me.

When I asked my rad tech team, they said the issues couldn't be from the radiation.

I started to wonder if I was imagining it. If I was being dramatic. If everyone else was just handling it better.

I wasn't. And you're probably not either.

Here's what I've come to believe: your body is telling you something real. It might not be on the list. It might not be what the internet says. But if it's happening to you, it's worth paying attention to.

Advocate for yourself. Ask the question even if you're not sure it's the right one. Trust that you know your body, even when your body is doing things you don't recognize yet.

You were living in this body for decades before the diagnosis. That knowledge doesn't disappear.

If you've ever felt like you had to justify your symptoms, comment REAL or DM me. I see you, and I want to send you something that helped me start trusting myself again. 💛

04/07/2026

It's harder to lie to yourself in writing.

That's why I journaled through treatment.

Not because someone told me to. Because I needed to talk to myself — and writing made it harder to avoid what was actually true.

I'd write what I was feeling.
Then ask why.

Getting it out of my head made space for what I actually needed.

There's a specific way I used it that made the biggest difference.

Comment or DM me STEADY and I'll send it to you. 💛

12/03/2025

Hi my young breast cancer friends! I have been really loving listening to The Pause Life by Dr. Mary Claire Haver lately. This podcast episode is for us:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3oH8RaeLdzVdriOSHMKO5S?si=Vk4nx_8eRuevETvHZkZIXA&t=1797&ct=1655

It's SO good. It's the info some never get from their oncologist or just don't have the capacity to absorb in the office. I hope you like it!