Our Story

While celebrating my five-year cancerversary, I met a young woman who, like me, had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her thirties. But hers had returned. She was living with metastatic disease, and over time, she became one of my closest friends.

We talked often about uncertainty, the future, and death—the conversations that only happen between people who truly understand. I shared how psilocybin had helped me heal, and realized how many others were curious about this kind of work but had no safe or legal way to access it.

When Oregon created a state-regulated path to psilocybin therapy in 2023, a possibility opened: what if survivors could lead this work ourselves?

That question sparked the Survivorship Collective. We’re a group of cancer survivors creating the kind of care we wished had existed for us—safe, legal, community-led access to healing experiences. We focus on education, harm reduction, and building spaces where people can face illness, mortality, and meaning together.

This work isn’t about profit or trends. It’s about people. It’s about life, death, and the sacred space between.

Anne Hamilton
Founder, The Survivorship Collective