Elephants and Tea

The Elephant in the room is cancer. Tea is the relief conversation provides. Our mission is to help cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers feel less alone in their cancer experience and experience relief through self-expression. We have the only magazine written for and by the AYA cancer community, telling their story in their own words. Quarterly magazine offered both in print as well as digitally – FREE to subscribe.  In addition to our quarterly magazine, we release new weekly content on our website as well as offer unique programming for our community of AYA cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, loved ones, healthcare professionals, and nonprofit professionals.  Our goal is to help the AYA cancer community experience relief through self-expression, inspire others during their cancer journey, and connect them with supportive organizations. Join our herd!

We are just about two weeks away from our next Magazine Release Event in Buffalo, NY! With a wide variety of daytime workshops, and a Soiree unlike any other we have done before, you are not going to want to miss this event. If you haven't been to an in-person event with the adolescent and young adult cancer community, what are you waiting for?? It is beyond special to meet and connect with people who get it! Register at the link below: https://lnkd.in/ecShmcYU #magazinereleaseevent #buffalony #buffalo #roswell #roswellpark #roswelparkya #cancermagazine #cancersupport #yacancersupport #ayacancer #ayacancersupport #ayacancerevent #magazinerelease #releaseparty #support  

Check out this podcast episode from @nbmtlink that features our very own Angie Giallourakis (Mamma G), @akgiallourakis! Angie talks about the caregiver perspective of chronic graft versus host disease as well as the importance of stress management for caregivers. This is an important listen! https://lnkd.in/emZEfMtu

We are reflecting on this past weekend with such gratitude! To be able to see and hug 100 people from our communities was a true gift. We bonded, we laughed, we cried, we ate a lot of s'mores... it was a truly unforgettable few days! Please enjoy these incredible photos from the talented @murr_nugg Thank you, Dominique! You captured our time in western Pennsylvania in such a beautiful way! And if seeing these photos gives you severe FOMO (as it should).... get ready for YA Cancer Camp 2025!!!!!! An enormous thank you to our amazing partners @yasurvivorsu -- we wouldn't want to do this with anyone else!!! #YACancerCamp2024 #YACC2024 #cancercamp #yacc2024 #youngadultcancercamp2024 #youngadultcancercamp #cancercamp #campforpatients #campforsurvivors #yacancercamp #yacancersupport #ayacancer #ayacancersupport #ayacancercamp #year3 #comerelaxwithus #campretreat #cancerrespite #cancerretreat

Want to join over 250 of your peers (and growing) at YA Cancer Gabfest this year? Click the link to learn more about and register for this exciting event, and get ready to virtually mingle with so many others who get what you are going through! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gVGa3FvH #YACancerGabfest #Gabfest #YACancerGabfest2024 #Year5 #YACancerSupport #AYACancerSupport #AYAsupport #AYAcancer #YAcancer #community #youarenotalone #cactuscancer #elephantsandtea #weareinthistogether #survivorship

Join Elephants and Tea and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for a Healing Through Writing Workshop offered exclusively to the blood cancer community! Thursday, September 12th - 7:00pm ET Come for an opportunity to connect with fellow blood cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and loved ones to test out journaling as a healing tool. Never been to one of Elephants and Tea's Healing Through Writing Workshops?… *Learn to use journaling as a form of self-therapy in a relaxed, safe environment where members of the Elephants and Tea team guide participants through writing prompts and an open discussion after each exercise as a way to connect to their peers. *No writing experience necessary! *All individuals who attend a workshop who do not already have one of our custom guided writing journals will receive one! *Any questions? Email [email protected] Register below: https://lnkd.in/gn_eq46a #ayacancer #ayasupport #writingworkshop #healingthroughwriting #writewithus #bloodcancersurvivor #community #survivorshipsupport

Angie Giallourakis (aka Mamma G, @akgiallourakis) will be leading Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation classes this fall. Each class will have a start time of 8:00pm ET. No experience is necessary! Come relax and try meditation with us! You only need to register once to have access to all 4 sessions. We look forward to seeing you! You will receive a confirmation email upon registering. Join us for the first session of the series on September 9th – “Connecting to the Energy Within” Thank you to our friends Cactus Cancer Society for partnering with us on this program. Register now at the link below: https://lnkd.in/e99Z4bSU #guidedmediation #yoganidra #guidedyoganidra #relax #unwind #peace #ayacancer #yacancer #ayacancersupport #yacancersupport #ayacsm

Our next session of "STEEP" with @kaylaoncologylcsw is TONIGHT! STEEP = Sitting Together with Empathy and Emotional Perseverance *This is for any AYA (ages 15-39) at any point in their cancer experience. Tuesday, September 3rd from 7:00 - 8:30pm ET Topic: BURDEN This clinician-led monthly program offers a safe space to acknowledge the emotions that we often think we “shouldn’t” or don’t want to feel. This month we’ll be talking about feeling like a burden and the impact that can have. Whether you’ve had to move back home, stop working, or shift roles and responsibilities, relying on others and asking for help can be hard. Link to register: https://lnkd.in/e6aZwaHv #STEEP #mentalhealth #grief #canceremotions #ayacancer #yacancer #survivorshipsupport #mentalhealthsupport #loneliness #empathy 

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT!!! Looking for submissions on the following theme: SCARS This submission theme is for an upcoming Perkatory event! Submit for a chance to be selected to share at the event! How has cancer scarred you? Do you have physical scars, invisible scars, or both? What story do your scars tell? How do you feel about your scars? Deadline to submit is August 30th! Link to submit is below! https://lnkd.in/efTDxJqe #writeforus #cancermagazine #cancersupport #ayacancer #yacancer #shareyourstory #reflections #reflectingoncancer #cancerjourney #healingthroughwriting #perspective #scars

Angie Giallourakis (aka Mamma G, @akgiallourakis) will be leading Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation classes this fall. Each class will have a start time of 8:00pm ET. No experience is necessary! Come relax and try meditation with us! You only need to register once to have access to all 4 sessions. We look forward to seeing you! You will receive a confirmation email upon registering. Join us for the first session of the series on September 9th – “Connecting to the Energy Within” Thank you to our friends @cactuscancer for partnering with us on this program. Register now at the link below: https://lnkd.in/e99Z4bSU #guidedmediation #yoganidra #guidedyoganidra #relax #unwind #peace #ayacancer #yacancer #ayacancersupport #yacancersupport #ayacsm