Dr Philippa Kaye | Surviving cancer, what NOT to say to someone with a cancer diagnosis and the need to be liked.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Dr Philippa Kaye is a familiar face on British television thanks to her thorough clinics on daytime TV offering health advice. She has also gone 'viral' online for making sometimes taboo health subjects accessible and easily understood. In this episode, Philippa shares her life lessons with me and how being diagnosed with cancer, and having to have major surgeries during the very first lockdown, impacted her physical, mental and emotional health.
Her account of being alone in intensive care is heartbreaking but the lessons she's learned, the resolve she's found and how she communicated her situation to her three young children is truly inspiring.
I challenge you not to cry during this conversation, such is Philippa's honesty on a sometimes difficult-to-navigate topic.
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| 0:00.0 | These are the bits that we're going to talk about when it comes to cancer. |
| 0:10.1 | I am enough that I can be enough and that I don't need to be afraid of being alone |
| 0:17.5 | because I can ask for what I need, that I can use my voice to say I need you to hold |
| 0:23.0 | my hand and that I can be that vulnerable and therefore get what I need and that I am |
| 0:29.5 | strong enough. But a therapy is a space where you can rant and rage knowing that that |
| 0:35.8 | person isn't top set. Until then, if you ask me who am I, I would have told you what |
| 0:41.3 | I am, not who I am. But in that moment I was seen and I was not alone and that was |
| 0:49.1 | enough acceptance is about a good place as you can ever get to. |
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