*How a Pain-Free Breast CT Gave Me My Power Back*

A Different Kind of Breast Exam

There are moments in motherhood when your body no longer feels like your own.

You carry, nurse, care, chase, and pour everything into your kids. Somewhere along the way, you forget the last time you scheduled that checkup, rescheduled that mammogram, or followed up on your own health—because someone always needs something more urgent.
I was that mom.
Until a few months ago, I hadn’t had a proper breast screening in over three years. I told myself the usual excuses: Too busy. Too painful. Too scary. Too much.
Then I heard about something that made me stop in my tracks. It wasn’t a scare. It wasn’t a diagnosis. 
It was a podcast.

A Different Kind of Breast Exam

A friend sent me an episode of The Healthy Enterprise Podcast featuring Naomi from a company called Koning Health. I listened to it while folding laundry—and by the time the episode ended, I was crying, not from fear, but from relief.
Naomi described a technology I had never heard of: a pain-free, no-compression, 3D breast CT scan that took less than 10 seconds per breast.
She called it Vera™, and she said women had been walking out of the experience saying, “That’s the best scan I’ve ever had.”
No smashing your chest between cold plates. No holding your breath in awkward positions. 
Just… clarity. Dignity. Simplicity.

I Booked an Appointment the Next Day

Koning Health’s website listed a center in my state offering the Vera™ breast CT. I called. They saw me the following week.
The experience? Honestly life-changing.
You lie face down. The scanner moves below you—gently, quickly. There’s no pain, no claustrophobia, no awkward contortions. Just a quiet hum, and you’re done. I nearly cried with gratitude.
The radiologist told me the scan gave them far more detail than a traditional mammogram, especially since I have dense breast tissue (which I didn’t even know until now—another reason the old scans had always felt “inconclusive”).

We Deserve Better Than the Bare Minimum

I walked away from that appointment thinking about all the moms I know—some with toddlers, some sending kids off to college—who quietly carry so much fear and guilt about not taking care of themselves.
But here’s the thing:
We’ve been told for decades that this is just how it is. Mammograms hurt. Appointments take forever. Getting clear results takes even longer. It’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, and scary.
But it doesn’t have to be.

Why I’m Sharing This with You Now

Because I don’t want you to delay like I did.
Because you deserve to know that better options exist.
Because Koning Health is currently raising funds to bring their technology to more centers across the country—and they’re asking women to help spread the word, advocate for access, and even invest in their Series C round to get this into clinics where it’s needed most.
You read that right: We can actually help bring this to market. Not by waiting for someone else to decide we matter, but by showing up with our voices, our votes, our dollars, and our stories.
Imagine a world where our daughters never associate breast screening with fear or pain. 
That future is possible—but only if we build it.

Want to Learn More? Start Here:

🎙 Listen to the podcast that started it all → 
Naomi on The Healthy Enterprise Podcast:

🔬 Learn about the Vera™ Breast CT here.
💸 Support Koning’s Series C and help fund the future of breast health.
📍 Ask your local provider: “Do you offer breast CT from Koning Health?” 
If not—send them this blog.

Because Self-Care Shouldn’t Hurt

To every mom reading this, I’ll say what I wish someone had told me three years ago:
Take the scan. Don’t wait. And don’t settle for pain as the price of prevention.
We’ve done enough for everyone else. Now let’s do this—for ourselves.