Hallmark Star Shares Brave Update on Her Cancer Journey: ‘Feels Like I’ve Gone to War’

Actress Lyndie Greenwood is bravely giving fans and friends an intimate look inside her journey with breast cancer. On March 25, 2025, the Hallmark star published her first blog post since first going public with her diagnosis a week before. In it, she vulnerably detailed some of the ups and downs she’s experienced throughout treatment.

In an Instagram post to alert her followers to her essay, Greenwood shared a radiant photo of herself — bald from chemo and making a heart with her hands — and expressed gratitude for the kindness she’s received, writing, “The love and support I received from my previous post absolutely floored me ❤️Thank you so much, you beautiful souls.”

Losing Her Hair Has Been ‘Freeing’ for Hallmark’s Lyndie Greenwood

On March 17, Greenwood, 42, took to social media to let her followers know she’d been diagnosed in September with breast cancer. Her her first Substack blog post — written in late February — said the cancer had specifically been defined as “invasive ductal carcinoma, cribriform type – hormone receptor positive.” Greenwood quietly underwent a double mastectomy, multiple reconstruction surgeries, and began chemotherapy.

In her new blog post, the “Crimetime: Freefall” star compared the journey to a “horror movie” but also wrote of silver linings, like the surprise of finding losing her hair to be oddly “freeing.”

“I have been pleasantly surprised with the experience of losing my hair,” she wrote. “It feels freeing in a way I couldn’t have expected. And I’m stoked to be able to play with wigs, which is something I’ve always wanted to do. You just don’t know until you’re there.”

But that doesn’t diminish the hard parts of this journey, Greenwood said, including an extra surgery due to an issue with one of her tissue expanders, which stretch the chest wall to make room for implants during reconstruction. The “Holiday Heritage” actress, who lives in California with her husband, also said the unknowns of chemo treatment have been dizzying.

“I have to unclench and release control everyday, or I’ll suffer needlessly,” she wrote. “Chemo means I don’t know what body I’ll be waking up to. I don’t know what is not going to work today, or what is going to ache, or ooze or mutiny.”

“Sometimes, I can look at all this with a sense of curiosity, and investigate it as part of the human experience,” Greenwood continued. “But other times, it’s hard to watch. I know intellectually that it is for the greater good of the system, but golly. Feels like I’ve gone to war.”

Lyndie Greenwood Says She’s Trying to Take Cancer Journey ‘Day by Day’

Once chemo is complete, Greenwood shared that she’ll be on an “anti-hormone therapy” for a decade, and not knowing how her body will react to that treatment worries her at times, she wrote. Listening to other patients’ experiences hasn’t been particularly helpful.

“Unfortunately, as my oncologist informed me, you can hear a hundred cancer stories and literally two might be like yours,” Greenwood wrote. “The variables in life are infinite. Not that hearing about other people’s experience isn’t helpful, it’s just not very often helpful in specific, logistical ways.”

“I know I just have to take it day by day,” she continued. “Wait until my chemo is done, and my body has healed enough from that to do some more testing, and then – with my intuition coupled with the advice of trusted experts – I will make the best decision I can for myself.”

Fans and friends filled the comment section of Greenwood’s latest Instagram post with encouraging words, including one who wrote, “You’ve sent a lot of beautiful energy out into the universe and now that energy is returning to you amplified! 🌈”

Another commented, “May you heal and thrive 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️”