January, 18th 2025: Join us for food, drinks, dancing, and author sharing — all to support our mission. Learn more here!
Survivorship
The stories and experiences are written by people after cancer treatments. These stories are written for those learning how to get back to work, college or just trying to be themselves again. Just getting past treatments isn’t enough, it is surviving and thriving that is key to being you again.
Want to submit a story? Click Here.
If You Give A Neurodivergent a Cancer
Raise your hand if you’ve ever read the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Keep your hand raised if you identify with that curious little house rodent on an incredibly personal level.
Read More...Opting Out of the Grind
The world will give you no shortage of opportunity. They are everywhere you go.
Read More...No Guarantee of the Future
Cancer means fighting for your life with no guarantee of the future
Fostering means loving the children in your care with no guarantee of the future.
Finding Me Again
They said they found something in my mammogram
I said I know, it’s my first one, it’s just dense breasts
no, come back in right away for more tests
Another Christmas Season
Another Christmas season is speedily passing by. And with it, the weight of reminder of twelve years ago and relapse.
Read More...Invisible Seizures and Other Normal Twenty-Something Experiences
The feeling creeps in slowly, then all at once. I sit at a large conference table, surrounded by my classmates.
Read More...Misconceptions, Hard Parts, and What Others Ought To Know
One of the largest misconceptions about facing cancer as an AYA is the idea that life goes back to “normal” after treatment is over.
Read More...a common misconception
there’s a sense of shame casted over us, as if we aren’t back to living up to society’s expectations…
Read More...Lost and Found Middle Child
We all wear many hats. We all identify in many ways. Me? I’m a wife, daughter, sister, cat mom, dog mom, friend, Disney aficionado-just to name a few.
Read More...Blast Off
Being a young adult with cancer (AYA) places you on a different planet compared to everyone else. You are suddenly ejected from your life without warning. Your peers often perceive you as brave as you navigate your cancer journey and resilient because of your youth—”You’ve got this.” As if we have a choice.
Read More...