Joy Maxing: Finding Happiness After Cancer

The three amigos are back! Barbara, Stef and Jamie reunite for a long-overdue catch-up, and as always, there's plenty of laughter, a little chaos and some brutally honest conversations.

Following a particularly difficult few weeks for the Young Tongues community, the trio reflect on the emotional toll of losing friends to cancer, navigating anticipatory grief and learning how to hold space for both sadness and happiness. But how do you allow yourself to feel joy when you've experienced so much loss? And why, even years after treatment, can feeling happy and healthy sometimes trigger a fear that something terrible is just around the corner?

From survivor's guilt and health anxiety to the frustrations of living with fatigue and a body that doesn't always cooperate, the conversation explores the complicated realities of life after cancer.

And because this is Young Tongues, there's also plenty of silliness involving Halloween horrors, questionable hairstyles, salsa dancing and the joys of getting older.

At the heart of it all is a simple message: Grief and joy can coexist. And sometimes, the best way to honour those we've lost is to make the absolute most of the life we still have.

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