Around Lacuna Loft – Fall

Summer is officially wrapping up and the fall is here!  Leaves are starting to turn and the coffee shops have everything pumpkin on rotation in full force.

Around Lacuna Loft, things have been super busy.  We’ve added a few new things to our shop and are starting to explore some brand new business structures.  The ultimate goal is to continue providing you with tools and resources for your day as a young adult dealing with cancer or long term illness.  Young adult survivors and caregivers need age-appropriate care and Lacuna Loft is committed to helping you manage your new day-to-day life with crisis.  We’ll keep you updated as things unfold!

In the next few weeks we have some super creative DIYs and style tutorials coming out as well as a whole lot more cancer and illness related articles.  We’ll talk about food, yoga, fertility, family, friends, and much more.  If you’d like less of one thing and more of something else, don’t hesitate to let us know!

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We Have New Products!

Looking for gift ideas for patients or survivors in your life?  Did you know that Lacuna Loft has a shop?  All of our proceeds feed directly back into Lacuna Loft…supporting our content, web hosting, and all of the work that goes into building a young adult cancer and long term illness advocacy brand and online magazine.  Young adults, ages 19-39, need age-specific care and resources and Lacuna Loft is spending everyday furthering this mission.  We have been dreaming and scheming over the past few months and we are starting to introduce some new products into the shop!

Lacuna Loft has two fabulous new accessories that are perfect gift ideas for yourself, or for the patient, survivor, or caregiver in your life!
We have a new buttoned clutch…

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…and a foldover zippered clutch!

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We also have a great book by the wonderfully talented Jenny Cutler Lopez:  Click here for the full item description of Who I Am: American Scar Stories

Bigger file book signingLacuna Loft is dedicated to providing daily, online content to survivors all over the country and the globe.  By supporting Lacuna Loft, you are helping to support a growing young adult cancer and long term illness advocacy brand and online magazine committed to offering young adults in crisis the resources they need for all of those in between moments…for the days in between chemo as well as the hours spent at treatments…for the conversations with a spouse, partner, or friend about infertility, new needs, and concerns…caregiving needs and responsibilities…and all of the other challenges.

What do you think?  Have you been looking for gift ideas for patients or survivors in your life?  Are you a patient or survivor who needs a little tender love and care…or a fun, new clutch?  🙂

LL At The Young Women’s Breast Cancer Annual Symposium

Lacuna Loft was honored to attend the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Program’s (YWBCP) Annual Symposium held by the Siteman Cancer Center.  Dozens of young women attended and many of them for the second, third, or fourth year!  I asked many of them why they return and each woman responded the same way…they all loved the community and camaraderie that the YWBCP’s events create.  Each woman found that connecting to other young survivors was a extremely helpful part of her recovery and fight.

I have found this to be true as well.  No matter what kind of diagnosis, speaking to another young adult cancer survivor is immediately a far more intimate experience than just speaking with another young adult.  The challenges young adult cancer survivors face are numerous and it always feels comforting to me connecting with someone else who knows exactly what I’ve been through.

Though I am not a breast cancer survivor (I had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), it was a really lovely event to attend.  If there are any young survivor events near you, I strongly encourage you to find the courage to go…even if you don’t know anyone else there!  What’s more, it was awesome being able to talk about Lacuna Loft with such a fabulous group of women.

If you are in the St. Louis area and are a young breast cancer survivor, you can see all the information for the YWBCP here.

We now have 12 voices on Lacuna Loft! Let’s hear from you!

We have had the pleasure, since our launch on March 3rd (2014) to hear from 12 different voices, including mine (and we have a new contributor to be published here soon!)!

Now it is time to hear from you!

What topics have you liked?  What topics have you disliked?  What would you like to see more of?  What would you like to see that you haven’t seen here yet?

Let us know!  Giving feedback to Lacuna Loft is the easiest way to get exactly what you want!

Email info(at)lacunaloft(dot)com!

 

Around Lacuna Loft

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So much has been going on around Lacuna Loft!  We have some new DIYs coming up.  I took a vacation, traveling to England with my family.  I have some great posts in the works having to do with that.  There have also been some exciting business meetings around the Lacuna Loft office.  Our connections are growing and we’re finding new ways to bring you awesome content and reach out to more and more young adult survivors out there.  We have some cool foodie posts in the works as well…exploring some alternative eating.  My husband passed his PhD defense which was really exciting!  He is just a step away from being a full-fledged, Doctor of Philosophy.  And…as always, I work from home much of the time which means that I work along side too wonderful furry black mutts. 🙂

Lacuna Loft Featured In Smile Politely

Lacuna Loft was recently featured in Smile Politely, Champaign-Urbana’s online magazine.  The whole interview process was a lot of fun (Thanks Katie!) and we hope that the article helps to share some of the cool stuff that we are doing here, over at Lacuna Loft!

To check out the article, click here!

 

 

It Is Time For A Check In With You!

Hello Lacuna Lofties!  Lacuna Loft has now been live for 2.5 months!  We have really enjoyed bringing you lifestyle management resources and personal stories for young adults with cancer, long term illness, or serving as caregivers.  Lacuna Loft was born from a need addressed by our founder, Mallory…but Lacuna Loft will thrive and grow only with your readership and help!

So here goes…we would love to know what you think.  Have you liked reading our articles and our series?  What do you think of the items in our shop?  What would you like to see more of/less of?  Do you think anything is missing here that you would appreciate buying or reading about?  Are you interested in contributing here at Lacuna Loft?

We would love if you could take the time to think about all of these questions and respond in the comments below.  If you would prefer, you can email your comments/suggestions/complaints/exaltations 🙂 straight to our inbox at info(at)lacunaloft(dot)com!

P.S.  If you take the time to offer us some feedback, we’ll offer *you* a coupon for 20% off any single item in our shop!  🙂

A CEO’s Scar Story

I recently published an article with the very accomplished Jenny Cutler Lopez.  She has brought together a multitude of voices in a book entitled “Who I Am:  American Scar Stories” that features wonderful, personal stories from people with all varieties of scars.  Jenny and I connected via twitter (did you know that Lacuna Loft is on twitter?) and decided to each share our voices.  In my post, published on Jenny’s site here, I share a bit of the more vulnerable side of my scar story before and after my scar arrived in my life.

Do you have a personal story that you think would fit in here at Lacuna Loft?  Let us know!  Send us an email at info(at)lacunaloft(dot)com