It’s a journaling program, Charlie Brown! Join us for The Great Pumpkin, A Fall Evening of Journal Writing with Jean Rowe. This 90 minute version of our past widely popular drop-in journaling workshop. Come join other young adults facing cancer (young adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers are all welcome) and get tuned up for Fall with Jean Rowe in this special one-night workshop!
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Weathering the impact of a cancer diagnosis can leave you without a sense of direction that once felt so sure. But with a little compassion and commitment to caring for you, the full person, you can find your way back to yourself. Join us for Get Your Groove Back – Cancer Can’t Steal My Mojo. Led by Tara O’Donoghue, this program is designed to help you craft new routines, develop practices, and spark creativity.
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We are proud to share the work of our Cactus Cancer Society community writers here on our blog, including this piece, which is part of a series entitled Fresh Ink.
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This is Christina’s Corner: the What A Week edition. Life has thrown a lot of us some curveballs recently, and I’m not here to excuse it, though I am here to blame mercury in retrograde. (Whether you believe it or not, it’s great to have a scapegoat that doesn’t actually hurt anyone.) I believe that when you are experiencing Just One Of Those Weeks, it’s time to pull out all the stops to care for yourself.
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As times change and our community grows, so too does the future of Unspoken Ink. As of September, we will be retiring our Unspoken Ink program with one final session. This was one of the original programs at Cactus Cancer Society and has always been a big part of our community. Starting TODAY, September 7, we will be introducing Unspoken Whispers; a new weekly drop-in program that will take place in Cactus HQ (Kumospace) every Thursday, at 9:30-10:00am PT / 11:30-12:00pm CT / 12:30-1:00pm ET.
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It’s time for our first-ever quarterly meet-up for the Prickly Rebels Club! What’s the Prickly Rebels Club? It’s like scouting for adults, with a young adult cancer twist. Back in June, we held our first-ever Rebel Badge Book initiation. It’s been a lot of time since then, and we want to know what you have been up to and what badges you’ve been working on since we last met. This is also the perfect time to troubleshoot with other Rebels, shamelessly brag about your accomplishments, and get motivated for fall adventures.
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Join Mamma G, Cactus Cancer Society, and Elephants and Tea for Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation! Each season, we hold four sessions, each with a different theme. Yoga Nidra is unlike any meditation you’ve ever tried before: one part guided imagery, and another part settling between sleep and awake.
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It’s time to fall for our September program line-up! Check out this round-up of this month’s programs.
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Ah, September. Here we are. The August Blue Supermoon this week ushered us out of unofficial summer and into fall. For many of us, it won’t start to feel like fall for another several weeks; for others, it remains permanently kind of balmy. I will personally be clutching onto the summer until my knuckles are white, though perhaps you’re eagerly awaiting hoodies and rewatches of Hocus Pocus. Either way, I wish you an easy and simple transition into a new month, and here are a few suggestions that are just as uncomplicated and straightforward.
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We are excited to share that our brand new Survivorship Series 3.0 is hot off the press and ready for sign-ups! This Survivorship Series, which is being offered for patients who have been diagnosed with AML, ALL, and Glioma, takes our usual format and adds a brand new twist. Over the course of four weeks, you’ll build a 1,872-piece Delorean LEGO set! You’ll spend 90 minutes hanging out and working on the LEGO kit, and then participate in a 30-minute focus group where you will get to share your experiences and shape the ALL, AML, and Glioma landscape. In the four weeks following, you’ll have a series of activities tailor-made to encourage you to find your own superhero alter ego.
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