Advice & Inspiration
The Bushaw Family, After 20 Years
The Bushaw Family, After 20 Years
When Natalie Bushaw was awaiting the arrival of her twin babies in 2003, she never dreamed she’d be journaling about their health in 2022. That’s—count’em—almost 20 years of posts, comments, support and love.
What to Say
Words of Encouragement for Cancer-Related Hair Loss
Pictured above is Courtney Lamb, whose story is part of the CaringBridge How We Heal Series. For many, hair is one of the most beautiful and important parts of personal identity. Hair helps everyone e…
How to Say Goodbye to a Loved One When You Don’t Know What to Say
When we lose a loved one, finding the right words to say goodbye can add stress to an already unimaginable time. We asked our amazing CaringBridge community for advice on what to say when the time com…
How to Tell Your Employer You Have Cancer: 6 Thoughtful Tips
Dealing with the news of a cancer diagnosis can be an apprehensive and overwhelming time. If you have a job, you may be wondering how you should navigate informing your employer and coworkers about yo…
Caregiving
How to Prepare Your Child for Surgery
If your child has an upcoming surgery, it may be difficult to know how to tell them about it and help them through it. As a parent, it may be hard for you to cope with this entire process, as well. We…
How to Tell Your Child They Have Cancer
Talking to your child about their cancer diagnosis is not something any parent wants to prepare for. We offer tips that can help make the conversation a little less scary – for all of you. Cho…
How to Help Your Child Through a Medical Procedure
Preparing for your child’s first or next medical procedure, whether it’s a blood draw, x-ray or surgery, can feel overwhelming and scary. Not only are you worried about your child’s health, but …
Family of Conjoined Twins: With Hope Comes Healing
Kate and Rob Erickson of Elk River, MN, have used CaringBridge since the birth of their conjoined twin daughters, whose lives since separation surgery in 2020 continue to reflect love, joy and a belief that with hope, anything is possible. So that what they’ve been through might help others on health journeys, the Ericksons have generously shared their family’s story as part of the How We Heal series.
Healing
A Framework for Healing: Believe, Belong, Be
To honor hundreds of thousands of patients and family caregivers who use CaringBridge every day, we have been working with a National Geographic photographer and filmmaker to capture stories of hope a…
Exploring the Topic of Healing
CaringBridge has served as the world’s witness to good stuff that comes out of bad stuff since June 7, 1997, when founder Sona Mehring, of Eagan, MN, launched one website to support two college frie…
Helping
16 Ways to Support Someone with Cancer
When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, you may have a million questions running through your head. How should I react? What should I say? How can I help? We asked our CaringBridge commun…
7 Helpful Ways to Show Someone You Love Them
Love is more than just three simple words. You can see it everyday – from the man walking his beloved pup down the street, to the woman helping her neighbor carry her groceries in from the car. …
7 Ways to Console Someone Going Through a Hard Time
Knowing how to console someone going through loss or hardship is always a challenge. You certainly don’t want to say the wrong thing, but saying nothing could be just as hurtful. We asked the C…
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