Rewriting Your Story After Diagnosis
The Live Out Loud Show
Brooke Thomas
5.0 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Brooke shares her deeply personal journey through a stage 3 melanoma cancer diagnosis at age 26 while pregnant with her first daughter. She opens up about the emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges she faced, the power of words and faith in rewriting her story, and the pivotal role prayer and scripture played in her healing process. Brooke emphasizes the importance of speaking life, finding a supportive community, and taking responsibility for your health and mindset. With practical encouragement, wisdom from her own experience, and a heartfelt prayer, Brooke aims to inspire listeners to hold onto hope, believe in their healing, and embrace a life of abundance no matter the circumstances.
Timestamps:
💕 00:00 – Brooke's Diagnosis: Brooke shares her cancer story, the "death sentence" doctors gave her at age 26, and her decision not to abort her baby or do chemotherapy.
💕 04:48 – Hiding Pain: Brooke describes her past tendency to hide pain and difficult experiences, and why she now fights for freedom and breakthroughs for other women.
💕 11:27 – Making a Choice: The hospital gives Brooke two difficult options for treatment; she chooses surgery without anesthetic to save her pregnancy, and describes the trauma.
💕 18:17 – The Struggle with Anxiety and Guilt: Brooke opens up about the depression, anxiety, and guilt she felt after surgery, and how she believed she was being punished.
💕 24:43 – The Power of Words and Scripture: Brooke shares the declaration and the three Bible verses that helped her shift her mindset from hopelessness to hope.
💕 32:31 – Taking Responsibility and Full Healing: Brooke outlines the practical changes she made in her health, mindset, and habits, emphasizing daily choices and speaking life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Live Out Loud Show. I'm your host, Brooke Thomas. And today I'm sharing an episode that is very, very popular that I always want to circle back around to every year and make sure that I give you my story and the tools to a cancer diagnosis that I took. And this is just mentally, emotionally, spiritually, I'm going to share with you what |
| 0:21.0 | helped me. I get asked all the time about being able to encourage other people that have had a |
| 0:26.7 | diagnosis or a death sentence really put over their health, their life, their relationships, |
| 0:33.4 | their finances. I believe what I did and what I continued to do is what got me through to the other side. |
| 0:39.9 | And guess what? Cancer is not my story anymore. I always say that it's not my story anymore. |
| 0:45.3 | I was diagnosed 21 years ago when I was 26 years old, stage three melanoma when I was |
| 0:51.5 | pregnant with my oldest daughter. The doctors told me to abort the baby |
| 0:55.9 | and have chemotherapy. I chose another option and they told me I would never live past 40. |
| 1:01.4 | I felt like I had a death sentence over my life. I continued to go down a road where it was just |
| 1:08.3 | hard for a little while. But then I realized how powerful our words are, |
| 1:13.8 | how powerful our faith and our belief is in ending our story or in really being able to |
| 1:20.8 | rewrite our story. And so I just wanted to share this episode with you. And it's either for |
| 1:25.4 | you or somebody that you love that you want to encourage today. |
| 1:28.5 | I want to share some things that I did. I want to share how I rewrote my story. |
| 1:33.0 | And I want you to know that I've been completely cancer-free the last 11 years of my life. |
| 1:38.1 | And so I just want you to be encouraged. I want you to have hope and victory. |
| 1:43.5 | And at the very minimum, speak life |
| 1:45.9 | over your body. Speak life over your future. It's so important. And I just want to pray for you, |
| 1:51.7 | and I want you to know that I'm thinking of you during this time. And if you want to reach out |
| 1:57.6 | through DMs and tell me your biggest prayer. I would love to pray for you. |
| 2:04.2 | So just let me know how this episode hits you. Let me know what I can do for you. |
| 2:08.6 | It's very special to my heart and to our community with anybody struggling and anybody that's |
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