Lauren Creel, Author at Cactus Cancer Society

Share Your Experience in an AYA Survey

Our friends over at the Coleman Supportive Oncology Collaborative and UChicago Medicine want to improve the support and care they offer to adolescents and young adults, and they’d love to hear from you!

Write Now With Jean Rowe: Are You My Therapist?

A special post where Jean Rowe weighs in on what might be helpful guidance in finding a therapist.

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5 Pieces of Advice About Sexual Desire from the Awkward Auntie

We know Valentine’s Day is coming up, so we thought it would be the perfect time to remind you of some of the Awkward Auntie’s advice! Here are 5 of our favorite pieces of advice about improving your sexual desire and pleasure from the Awkward Auntie.

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Join Our Next Survivorship Series for YAs Between 18 and 25

Are you between the ages of 18 and 25?! Join us for our next Survivorship Series! In case you haven’t heard of it yet, the Survivorship Series is essentially our favorite programs all wrapped up into one!

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Join The Next Young Adult Cancer Book Club

It’s time for another round of the Young Adult Cancer Book Club!

Our next book club pick is Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. Here at Cactus Cancer Society, we’re really excited to read this book together!

The books are packed and ready to go and that means that it’s time for you to sign up to receive one of the 32 free books that we’re send out to young adult cancer patients and survivors in exchange for sharing your commentary on one of the book’s chapters. Click here to sign up for your free book!

We’ll be sending the books out in mid-February. The reading assignments (for what chapter we’d love your commentary on) will go out then too, and we’ll start sharing your commentary in early March.

Once this round of book club officially starts, there are several ways for you to be involved in the book club:

Read the book along with us and check out the Young Adult Voices blog each Friday, starting March 11th for the next book chapter’s installment!
If you get behind, check out this page for all of the posts for the Wild round of book club.
If you’d like to contribute your comments about a chapter, email aerial@lacunaloft.org at least a few days ahead of the Friday when that chapter will be discussed, with your comments!

Happy reading!!

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7 Easy Self Care Tips

We’ve talked a lot about self care in the past. That’s because we truly believe that taking even sixty seconds to care for yourself can make a huge difference! So we’ve rounded up some of our absolute favorite but surprisingly simple self care tips for you today…

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