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Welcome to the INDY Foundation: Connecting Through Cancer hosted by Kayla Keenan, founder of INDY Foundation, a non-profit located in central Minnesota. Here at INDY, we believe in supporting and connecting cancer warriors throughout their cancer journey.
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What Am I Leaving Behind? Legacy, Grief, and Living on Purpose After Cancer (opens the original)
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Takeaways Legacy starts now, not someday. The question "What am I leaving behind?" is about how you treat your kids, your friends, and the people you meet this week. Cancer sucks, and hard seasons are not gifts. They can still push you to ask who you are and who you want to be, and you get to choose what you do with what happens to you. You do not have to cure cancer to make a difference. Rides to appointments, groceries, gas, and the words "we see you" make the road less lonely and less heavy f
Living More Like Dolly: What Her Life Teaches Us About Cancer, Grief, and Hope (opens the original)
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Takeaways Hard seasons like cancer, grief, and loss don't ask if you're ready. The goal isn't to skip the rain and find the rainbow immediately, it's to keep walking through it one day at a time. A diagnosis, a title, or a hard season can become part of your story, but it doesn't get to become your entire story. Legacy isn't built through one giant act. It's built through small, consistent things: a text, a meal, a phone call, a foundation, a message someone remembers nine years later. You don't
Scheduling Fun, Setting Boundaries, and Other Forms of Self-Care [Joy Mini-Series Replay] (opens the original)
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Takeaways Scheduling joy on your calendar with the same seriousness as a work meeting makes it far more likely to actually happen. Saying no isn't rude or selfish. It's a form of self-care that protects the time and energy you have for what matters most. Joy changes with every season of life. What brought you happiness in your 20s can look completely different in your 30s or 40s, and that's normal. Building a personal joy inventory, a running list of what actually makes you happy, gives you some
Signs From Heaven, Part Three: How a Puppy Named Indy Found Us (opens the original)
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Takeaways Signs from someone you've lost don't have to be dramatic to be meaningful. Sometimes it's a coincidence you can't shake, not a feather or a dream. Bringing new joy into your life, whether it's a new pet, a new chapter, or a new love, doesn't replace what or who you lost. It adds to the story instead of erasing it. Grief and joy aren't opposites. They can exist in the same house, sometimes in the same hour. You don't need anyone else to believe something was a sign for it to be true for
Signs From Heaven, Part Two: The Stories You Shared With Us (opens the original)
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Takeaways Kayla and the INDY Foundation asked their Facebook community to share their own signs from heaven, and the stories that came back ranged from a phone that rang for two years after a mother's death to a cross made of leaves on a quiet country drive. Feathers, coins (especially unexpected dimes), songs that follow you into every room, and dreams are some of the most commonly reported signs people notice after losing someone they love. Recognizing a sign from heaven isn't about meeting a
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