Lasting Love
After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer when she was 32, Caroline Wright of Seattle struggled to find the right kind of book to help her two young sons understand what was happening. So she d...
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5 Ways to Deal with Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue is the traumatic stress experienced by those who are spending significant time taking care of a loved one who is sick or in distress. When someone you know or love is going through ...
Sister Act: Facing Cancer, and the Future, Together
The vanKoeverden sisters of Rochester, MN, want you to know they were Ana and Elsa way before the Frozen franchise came along. And to answer what starstruck little kids ask all the time: No merchandis...
How Practicing Gratitude Can Help You Heal
Swept away like breadcrumbs in the moment, I decided to gather up the bits and pieces of my life to see if the trail ended in gratitude. Constantly asking my kids to put a little “gr” in f...
Breathe: Living My Best Life With Chronic Lung Cancer
As a professional poker player, Jim Petzing may have bet against receiving two cancer diagnoses in three years. But the retired marketing strategist, a lifelong non-smoker, survived neck cancer treatm...
10 Tips to Cope With Your Child’s Chronic Illness
Learning your child has a chronic illness is a feeling you cannot prepare for. The new and unfamiliar stresses can cause intense feelings of love, sadness, grief, panic, and guilt. All those feelings ...
Study: Spiritual Support Often Absent in Clinic Settings
I am a spiritual caregiver who had a client, Sara, who let her Stage 1 breast cancer grow over four years before she sought pastoral counseling to decide if she should seek medical treatment. Sara had...
Return to ‘Normal Life’ After Child’s Cancer: It Takes Time
Reina Haug is taking it all in. Happy and playful, there is also a calm awareness about the toddler. Just starting to grasp language at 17 months, you look forward to hearing what she will have to say...
Radiation Through a Child’s Eyes: 3 Questions With Giovanna Quevedo
As she watched her mom go through radiation treatment for breast cancer in 2019, high school senior and aspiring medical professional Giovanna Quevedo of Long Beach, CA, got to thinking how scary the ...