Beyond Remission

100+ Survivor Stories

Inspired by our cofounder Melody's leukemia battle at age 6, we created a book to help cancer fighters. We photographed over 100 cancer survivors and asked them about their stories and wisdom from their journey to create these images of remission. The survivor perspectives shared in this project help cancer fighters visualize their own remission. This book contains a diverse group of survivors from all walks of life who have shared their stories to motivate cancer fighters in their darkest times. 

Beyond Remission: Words of Advice for Thriving shows cancer fighters that there is life after cancer, and the possibility to not only survive, but to thrive. This book is made by cancer survivors and is meant for cancer fighters, though anyone touched by cancer will find a community in this book including families, doctors, caregivers, and support teams. Through Luna Peak Foundation, many of these books will be donated to newly diagnosed patients, their families, oncology offices, and hospitals.

Our community is fueled by diverse survivor stories and the healing that happens when these stories are given a platform. We invite you to join our Instagram community to view more fighter, survivor, thriver, and caregiver stories and share a piece of your story: @LunaPeakFoundation.

Beyond Grief

Snapshots of Life After Loss

What does life after loss look like? We began photographing and interviewing grievers to find out. We created “Snapshots of Life After Loss” to help those newly-grieving see a way forward after loss through grief survivor stories and images. These participants have experienced a close loss of various relationships (parents, spouses, children, siblings, grandparents, best friends and mentors) and the years after loss range from 1 to 66 years. This is a book filled with 80 conversations about grief, survivor to survivor. Through portraits, mementos, stories and advice, we explore how a diverse array of grievers navigates and rebuilds after a life-changing loss. Beyond Grief doesn’t just tell you that you’re not alone - it shows you that you’re not alone.

Praise for Beyond Grief

"Honest, vulnerable, and raw, this beautiful collection of interviews reveals what grief is really like -- not the sanitized, muted version that so many of us feel we have to present to the world. It describes the aftergrief in all of its pain and beauty and complexity on every page. Beyond Grief is an important gift to us all."

-Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters and The AfterGrief

"This powerful book will bring comfort to anyone grieving the loss of a loved one. Inspiring and comforting, Beyond Grief will help anyone feel less alone, no matter where they are on their grief journey. A truly healing addition to the grief community."

-Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief

"Grief is far too mysterious and odd an experience to leave up to words alone. And it isn’t all sadness or any single emotion; there is light, humor, sorrow, regret, learning, wishes, and on and on. With these stories and these images - these experiences - we get to look a little farther inside this human necessity called grief, and we get to know ourselves a little bit better in Beyond Grief. It turns out we aren’t alone after all."

-BJ Miller, MD. Founder of Mettle Health & author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End

Our grief Instagram account is a cohesive and diverse community that shares stories of life after loss, advice, and humor. We welcome you to join our community: @SnapshotsOfLifeAfterLoss