Proof I Was There with Adrienne Holland Hubbard
Writing Prompts, Body, MBC, Parenting April Stearns Writing Prompts, Body, MBC, Parenting April Stearns

Proof I Was There with Adrienne Holland Hubbard

Today’s storyteller recalls a particular grief of being edited out of your own life. Of watching the early years of motherhood blur and vanish under the weight of an aggressive diagnosis—and the slow, tender reckoning that comes years later, when the life you fought for is finally, undeniably yours again. But more than anything, it's a story about proof. The kind you find not in memory, but in the unexpected places you least expect it. 

This conversation explores the lasting impact of cancer on motherhood, identity, and healing. It touches on the isolation of treatment, reclaiming connection with family, redefining life after cancer, quiet wellness, creativity, writing, and community.

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I Can Still Feel It with Cassandra Umbriaco
Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns

I Can Still Feel It with Cassandra Umbriaco

Today’s storyteller reflects on receiving a breast cancer diagnosis at 28 and the lasting emotional imprint of survivorship more than a decade later. Moving between past and present, she explores the survival mindset that carried her through treatment and the gradual return of feeling after years spent simply trying to stay alive.

This conversation explores memory, identity, inner resilience, and the relationship between who we were before cancer and who we become afterward — revealing how pain and love can coexist in the same story.

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My Grandmother’s Grandchildren with Esther Yumi Ko
Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns

My Grandmother’s Grandchildren with Esther Yumi Ko

Today’s storyteller reflects on her relationship with her grandmother against the backdrop of a family deeply marked by cancer. As relatives fall ill and pass away, truths are hidden and grief moves quietly through generations.

This conversation explores memory, cultural silence, substitution and survival, what it means to be mistaken for someone who is gone, and how presence itself can become an act of love. It’s a meditation on mortality — and on what it means to remain.

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Be bold. Be beautiful. Be confident. with Hannah Morales
Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns Writing Prompts, Body, MBC April Stearns

Be bold. Be beautiful. Be confident. with Hannah Morales

In this episode, today’s storyteller, Hannah Morales, shares a vivid account of the days surrounding her mastectomy and the moment she first saw her changed body in the mirror. Expecting grief and resentment, she instead discovered pride, relief, and a deeper sense of identity that extended beyond appearance.

This conversation explores body image after cancer, surgical loss, motherhood, scars as story, and what it means to define boldness, beauty, and confidence on your own terms — not society’s.

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