The appointment ends. The recovery doesn’t. A Pink Ribbon story from a 10-year thriver.

Katherine Froggatt is a 10-year breast cancer thriver, Evidence-Based EFT Practitioner, Metabolic Health Coach, and founder of Breast Wise, a breast cancer recovery and survivorship coaching platform based in Queenstown. She's about to launch a podcast in time for Pink Ribbon Month in May.

"In 2016, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer," she says. "I had a mastectomy, endured chemotherapy so severe my oncologist recommended I stop early, and came out the other side looking, to everyone around me, completely fine. “Oh, you look fantastic!” people said. I could not bear it.

"Because I did not feel fine. I did not recognise the woman in the mirror. And nobody, not my doctors, not the system, not the well-meaning people in my life, had told me that this part was coming. The part after the treatment. The survivorship gap."

It's been ten years since her diagnosis and she has now shifted her attention to Breast Wise. The platform exists for women who are recently diagnosed or finishing treatment and have discovered the world has moved on, but she hasn't quite caught up yet. Froggatt explains that her personal story is not about surviving cancer, but rather learning how to build a life worth living after it.

"It took a warm spring afternoon in a park in Taupo, watching my then five and three-year-old children laughing on the slides, to understand something that changed everything: I could not control whether the cancer would return. But I could choose, every day, how I lived in my body.

"That moment became Breast Wise."

Today she supports women navigating recovery and long-term survivorship through nervous system regulation, metabolic health, and fear literacy.

"Because remission is not a destination you arrive at when treatment finishes. It is something you actively build, day by day, through understanding your body rather than fearing it."

As an experienced speaker and writer, it was a natural progression for Froggatt to work on a podcast. Breast Wise: Unafraid will launch the first week of May.

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Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6eQCyfwEH9wLPsWjJuZxCD?si=LWkcKDgcTHGBy0oQjJ8ihQ
Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/breast-wise-unafraid/id1891675049

Head to breastwise.co.nz for more information or to book a Clarity Call with Katherine.