When someone is diagnosed with cancer, an army rushes in. When treatment ends, that army goes home—but the survivor is still going to appointments, living with side effects, tired, scarred, and trying to figure out who they are now. Because cancer isn't a short fight.

We call what survivors face next the paper cuts of care: the hundred small gaps between the care a patient received during treatment and what they actually need to rebuild a life afterward.

Be Seen's In The Wild Survivor Retreat is built for that gap—the "now what" side of cancer. It's a free, four-day pilot retreat for women recovering from breast and colorectal cancer, two of the leading causes of cancer death among women.

Together, survivors work through nine pillars of life after cancer—Purpose, Mind, Body, Spirit, Fuel, Finance, Connection, Capability, and Creation—using our Being Alive Guide. They do the concrete work of building the next chapter of their lives through cairn-building and intention-setting, floating sound-bath meditation, hands-on nutrition workshops, and guided sessions designed around life after treatment. Each survivor leaves with a real plan forward.

The retreat also includes two built-in patient voice sessions, "From Treatment to Today" and "Paper Cuts," where participants speak directly about the gaps they've experienced in treatment and survivorship care. These sessions make the retreat a working focus group with the survivors that Be Seen supports, giving us valuable insight into what survivors need once active treatment ends.

IN THE WILD

Women survivors retreat to reclaim life after cancer