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October 10, 2024Retreat Yourself Adventure 2024: The recap
“It was the first time in 18 months that I felt like someone who was much more than my cancer.”
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September 26, 2024🌳 Retreat Yourself Adventure: Gros Morne, NL
Retreat Yourself Adventure is a four-day event for Canadians who were diagnosed with cancer before the age of 40 and are currently between 18-39.
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September 18, 2019Photo diary: Retreat Yourself Adventure 2019
YACC’s program director, Karine Chalifour, posts daily recaps on Facebook during Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference. Here is a compilation of what she saw and felt during Retreat Yourself Adventure based in Rocky Harbour, NL from September 12-16, 2019.
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October 16, 2018Retreat Yourself Adventure 2018: Little-by-little
“I learnt a lot on day three when we hiked Gros Morne through two great conversations that made me come to some realizations — one with myself, and the other with another participant.”
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October 19, 2017Retreat Yourself Adventure 2017: Go climb your mountain
Sometimes life takes detours and doesn’t turn out as planned. Maybe you’ll get to hike that mountain, or skydive, or ride a motorcycle through the Americas, or go back to school and get that diploma or degree, or adopt that puppy, or take that trip, or volunteer with that group, or whatever. And maybe you won’t get to. Maybe life will get in the way. Maybe you’ll get breast cancer at 35 like me. But if you don’t take the next step toward that goal, it’s never gonna happen.
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October 11, 2017YACC values courage
At our monthly team meetings, one of our crew members discusses some of our five values: strength, courage, commitment, heart, and spark (formerly trailblazing). This is Karine’s reflection from this month’s meeting.
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October 02, 2017Photo diary: Retreat Yourself Adventure 2017
YACC’s program director, Karine Chalifour, posts daily recaps on Facebook during Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference. Here is a compilation of what she saw and felt during Retreat Yourself Adventure based in Rocky Harbour, NL from September 28-October 2, 2017.
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November 08, 2016My name is Michelle, and I am a cancer survivor.
My name is Michelle, and I am a cancer survivor.
This is my reality. But I am also so much more than that. YACC’s Retreat Yourself Adventure from October 6-10 allowed me to realize there is no shame, only strength, in being a survivor.
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October 11, 2016Photo diary: Retreat Yourself Adventure 2016
YACC’s program director, Karine Chalifour, posts daily recaps on Facebook during Retreat Yourself and Survivor Conference. Here is a compilation of what she saw and felt during Retreat Yourself Adventure […]
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October 06, 2016Retreat Yourself Adventure kicks off today!
Young Adult Cancer Canada’s (YACC) fifth annual Retreat Yourself Adventure is taking place in Newfoundland and Labrador from October 6-10, 2016. Twelve young adult cancer survivors and supporters from across Canada will gather in Deer Lake before travelling around the west coast for the experience of a lifetime!
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October 02, 2015Retreat Yourself Adventure 2015 from the ground (and air and water)
we must remember that our cancer experience has also given us a new family, one that supports us as we brave these new difficult realities, and “new normals.”
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October 28, 2014Heather's blog: Expectations
For a long time now, I have been holding back making the changes I need or desire in certain areas of my life because of expectations — listening too closely to others, and not being honest about my own… This burden of expectation has been a heavy one for me, and one that I felt the weight of with each step I took up Gros Morne.
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