Have a great weekend!  We’re signing off a little early this week.  Spring is in the air and sometimes that means more behind the scenes work than normal 🙂
Look forward to next week when we’ll be talking about healthy eating & smoothies, a self-care week long experiment, the power of actually spending time together, and more!
Whew!  I am back in the office but definitely catching up on many many many things.  Here are some pictures from my trip to keep you until tomorrow 🙂  Just another quick note…we’ll have fewer posts than normal this week.  Doing a little spring cleaning 🙂
(just a little clarification…this guy was found pretty far from the water at low tide…I walked him back to the water and he rejoined the sea)
Have a great Monday!
Today is the first anniversary of Lacuna Loft’s launch day! Â What a whirlwind of a year it has been!
We’ve been to 2 different expos, a conference, worked through a lot of business and website development challenges, and found 12 different awesome contributors.  We’ve done a fair number of cool DIY projects and recipes, talked about self care as often as possible, and started offering you some awesome weekly yoga posts.  We’ve had a few series go through the blog and listened carefully to feedback from many of you about what else you’d like to see here on Lacuna Loft.  Our founder had a two clean scans and cut off her hair for Locks of Love.  We’ve had meetings, started collaborations, and met so many awesome people in the young adult cancer world.  We even started working with a great group of lawyers to help us file as an official non-profit.
This next year we’re already attending another expo, going to a few other exciting conferences, designing our first fundraising campaign, and looking forward to a few rad collaborations with other organizations. Â It is going to be a great year. Â We’re excited to bring on some more people and start really taking things to the next level. Â Thank you for your love and support!
With love,
Mallory & Brett and the Lacuna Loft team!
P.S. Launch Day!
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Click here! Â You won’t be disappointed!
At my most recent CT scan, the woman who normally greets me at the door to the waiting room and checks me in was off of work. Â She normally takes my insurance info (for the millionth time), brings me that gross liquid I used to have to drink, and remembers my name every time I come in. Â I had found comfort in knowing that I would get to see her smiling face each time I went in for a scan…but this time she wasn’t there. Â I walked in, saw a brand new face, and immediately wanted to cry. Â This wasn’t the way it was supposed to be! Â That one little change in such a stressful situation was enough to put me over my tipping point.
Have you experienced something like this before? Â Describe it. Â How did it make you feel? Â What do you think caused such a reaction?
If you are signed up for our journaling prompts, you received the prompt above (bolded and italicized) along with a bit of my back story earlier today. Â Last week you would have received this one…
Without naming it, describe your favorite color as a person.
…which I think is my favorite so far of the prompt’s Lacuna Loft has offered. Â Some of the Lacuna Loft journaling prompts are deep, asking you to really consider something about yourself and your life, and others seem more superficial. Â Either way, journaling can provide a great insight into your emotions and wellbeing. Â Journaling is for everyone involved with this icky process of young adult cancer and long term illness. Â As a caregiver and as a survivor, I was immensely aided in my healing through journaling.
Are you interested in signing up for the Lacuna Loft journaling prompts? Â The sign up is super easy (just fill out this simple form) and we’ll get you a prompt within the first 24 hours! Â Then, each week (well, mostly each week) you’ll be sent a simple email with a journal prompt inside. Â If you really like what you wrote and are interested in having it published here on Lacuna Loft, let us know!
Have you kept a journal before? Â What did you think of the process?
P.S. One of our contributor’s has talked about her practice of keeping a journal and offers some helpful insight!
Are you a young adult cancer survivor or caregiver? Â What about a young adult suffering from a long term illness? Â Want to do some writing about your experiences, helping other young adults along the way?
Then come and write for Lacuna Loft!
We’ll get you started writing for the site, helping you along the way however you may need. Â Process your own experience while sharing your valuable knowledge and insight with other young adults going through similar things. Â Being a young adult cancer survivor or illness sufferer is a lonely experience. Â Lacuna Loft wants to help.
Email info(at)lacunaloft(dot)com for more information!
From everyone here at Lacuna Loft, we wish you a happy new year 2015.  We’re excited to start this new year right with awesome content for the young adult cancer survivors, caregivers, and young adult long term illness sufferers out there!
P.S. Did you check out our ways to celebrate the New Year in style?
Happy Holidays from all of us at Lacuna Loft!
We’ll be signing off for the rest of this week but stop by next week for some great, young adult cancer lifestyle management support content. Â As always, if there is something you’d like to see more of in 2015, here on Lacuna Loft, don’t hesitate to let us know!
Lacuna Loft’s office is a busy and bustling place this winter.  We’re getting our ducks in a row for our non profit filing while still offering you age appropriate lifestyle management resources as a young adult dealing with cancer or long term illness.  We are brimming with ideas and inspiration from our founder’s trip to the Critical Mass Annual Conference (more on that soon!) and we’re starting to expand our reach to hospital social workers, nurses, physicians, and anyone who will listen 🙂
As we approach the holidays you can expect more fun DIYs, great recipes and foodie ideas, more stories on survivorship, and much more!
We would love to hear from you!  Let us know what you like here at Lacuna Loft, what you dislike here, and what you would like to see more of!  🙂
Yep, that’s right! Â We are officially working to become a non profit. Â So many little things went into making this decision but we wanted to share the end result with you all! Â While not yet official, here at Lacuna Loft we are slowly getting everything in order, forming a board, assembling the paper work, dotting our i-s, and crossing our t-s to file as a 501-c3. Â As soon as everything is ready, we will move everything over to LacunaLoft.org. Â Don’t worry though…we’ll keep you updated!
The Lacuna Loft team wanted to officially say Thank You to everyone who has been supportive of all of our hard work since our March 3rd launch. Â Hours and hours and hours have gone into article writing, brain storming, web developing, paper designing, meeting having, telephone calling, and much more.
If you’re interested in learning more, helping out, or have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to shoot an email our way! Â Just contact info(at)lacunaloft(dot)com!
