110: How to find peace and presence when your child has stage four cancer. With adventure mama Kady Lieber.
Episode Description
Today’s guest is one of those mamas who doesn’t quite known just how amazing and resilient she is. Kady Leiber is a mom of two beautiful girls under ten. who has managed to travel around the globe, but more importantly, she is a mom who has had to endure a child with stage 4 brain cancer at 17 months old. This is one of those fears all of us moms can say we all share, but rarely speak about. Let’s be honest childhood cancer is such a horrendous thought, many of us avoid the very words. But Kady is here to tell us childhood cancer can teach you how to live I the moment as if it were your last, and have gratitude for even the seemingly smallest of things.
Kady has had to go through what no mama wishes upon a child, rounds of chemotherapy for her daughter Ava, isolating and extensive hospital stays and post cancer side effects. Although cancer is something they live with daily, she also makes the most out of each day and takes her children on constant adventures.
Admitting that her children aren’t the best of sleepers. Kady has camped solo with her girls, to prove our limitations are just in our mind. She splits her time between the USA and Switzerland and is passionate about travel , adventure and creativity and making the most out of life, regardless of your situation.
Today she is going to share about traveling with kids, the uncertainty and grief of childhood cancer, living during a pandemic with a “high risk” Child and how important it is to live life to the limits every, single day.
Take-aways:
How her daughter Ava received a stage 4 brain cancer diagnosis at only 17 months old
The moment their life changed forever
Words of advice their doctor gave them that changed their outlook on such a grim diagnosis
Living presently in the moment and how her family does their best to take everyday as it comes
How her daughter was given such a small chance of survival but has fiercely persisted anyway
How radiation and chemotherapy led to Ava’s hearing loss and cochlear implant
Kady explains the many side effects that go along with cancer treatments
The sadness and frustration of dealing Ava’s special needs
How Ava’s doctors told her she’d never walk or do many things
How Ava is “high risk” and can’t be around a lot of people during a pandemic
Ava’s close relationship to her older sister
How the Lieber’s approach adventuring together
Kady explains the support that is out their for parent’s post cancer
How the Lieber’s have taken their own post cancer approach
Why the outdoors is so important to them
