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Dying to Live With Jenny Peterson

In this opening conversation for Season 2, Paul Cobbin sits with writer and Substack author Jenny Peterson, whose newsletter Dying to Live explores what it means to stay fully present when certainty has collapsed. Diagnosed first with breast cancer in 2012 and later with stage-4 metastatic cancer to the spine, Jenny doesn’t write from denial or despair. She writes from the narrow middle ground most people are afraid to inhabit where life is different, fragile, unfinished… and still deeply alive. This episode isn’t about beating illness. It’s about how identity shifts, how meaning changes, and how life continues when timelines dissolve. Jenny speaks candidly about: Refusing to live through a diagnosis Why she accepts diagnosis but rejects prognosis Curiosity as a daily survival skill Drawing hard emotional boundaries around pity and complaint Redefining purpose beyond productivity What it really means to “die well” and therefore live well This is a conversation for anyone standing at the edge of uncertainty, trying to figure out how to live honestly without surrendering joy. Key Themes Explored: Identity vs diagnosis Accepting reality without building a life around it The danger of toxic positivity and doom narratives Curiosity as a grounding practice Pleasure, beauty, and humour as acts of resistance Boundaries, agency, and self-responsibility Legacy, presence, and a “good death” Notable Quotes “I accept the diagnosis. I do not accept the prognosis.” “What am I making this mean?” “I don’t want pity. I don’t think ‘poor me’.” “My life is different. That doesn’t mean it’s bad.” “We’re all dying. I’m just a little more aware of it.” Who This Episode Is For People living with chronic or incurable diagnoses Carers navigating emotional fatigue Professionals rebuilding identity after health disruption Anyone tired of false inspiration or medicalised despair Sessions From The Edge is a space for conversations where life isn’t fixed it’s renegotiated.