
310. Surviving Cancer Is Only the Beginning: How to Process What Comes After
Published: August 23, 2026
Duration: 43:04
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What happens emotionally after you've spent months—or years—focused on simply surviving cancer?
Treatment may end. Scans may look good. Life may begin moving forward again. But that doesn't necessarily mean you've processed what happened to you.
In this episode of Breast Cancer Conversations, Laura Carfang sits down with visual artist, therapeutic arts practitioner, author, and cancer survivor Nerissa Balland for an honest conversation about the emotional aftermath of cancer—and why healing and surviving aren't necessarily the same thing.
Nerissa was diagnosed with m...