EP. 19:  How I Told My Kids I Had Breast Cancer - and What I’d Do Differently

Sana Sana · Sep 9, 2026 · 44m

Telling your kids about your cancer diagnosis will be hard. At least, it was for me. I didn’t know what to do or what the right thing to say was. I just sat them down individually - there are five of them - with my husband and spoke from the heart.

This conversation is not going to be easy for you. I should know; I had five different conversations for five different kids. They were all varying ages; the oldest were in their twenties, and the youngest was three at the time. And they all needed something different from this conversation and different things from their mom, too. At the time, I…