Ep. 99 Surviving Breast Cancer with Selin Esendagli

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I am joined by Selin Esendagli who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 23, during the COVID-19 lockdown.

We dive into the following topics…

- Navigating health anxiety before and after receiving a diagnosis

- The prevalence of breast cancer in the United States

- How Selin shifted her mindset from avoidance to facing her recovery head-on

- Moving on and coping with life after dramatic life changes and traumas

- Sitting in the discomfort of waiting for treatment results

- Finding virtual support via social media

- Experiencing cancer treatment during a pandemic

- Selin’s cancer treatment plan

- Body dysmorphia as a result of a breast cancer diagnosis

- The impact of a cancer diagnosis on a family system

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a DR Media Production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery,
0:18.2	seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine,
0:21.8	or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth.
0:28.8	Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.1	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.3	I thought it was so rare to the point that it just couldn't possibly happen to me,
0:43.8	because you know, my, that there just wasn't that family history there.
0:48.4	And in my head, I'd always assumed if it was going to happen to me,
0:52.4	it would either be after the age of, I don't know, 45,
0:55.3	or possibly a little bit earlier if I had the gene,
1:00.1	but obviously that isn't the case.
1:02.3	And when I was diagnosed and I reached out to these different support groups on Instagram,
1:08.8	I just realised how much more common it is for women my age to get it as well.
1:15.2	And I just, I guess I didn't realise because I'd spent life with my fingers in my ears.
1:19.9	And then when I finally was forced to take them out and listen and look into it,
1:25.1	I realised that actually it's more common than we think.
1:29.9	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Sealand S and Dagley.
1:36.0	Sealand is actually an art of our community member.
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