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Summer 2026

Excerpt from "THANK YOU”
by Janalee Budge

It’s been exactly one week since I returned from the Callanish retreat, and I’m still finding it difficult to find the words to describe just how profound this experience was and how much it meant to me.

When I was first diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer last year, it was a devastating blow to an already broken version of me. Having lost both my parents and my partner earlier that year, my cancer diagnosis was trauma packed on top of layers of grief, and my spirit was totally broken. Instinctively, I did the only thing that I could. I went into fight mode and suppressed all the feelings that I couldn’t cope with. In the beginning I focused my energy on a film project as a way to avoid real life.

Read the full article in the Summer 2026 newsletter.