How to Start a Prayer Chain: 4 Tips
12.28.23
A prayer chain is a list of people who agree to pray for a loved one during a troubling time. Prayer is among the most ancient of human practices, and to this day billions of people believe in its pow...
Faith
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6 Helpful Ways to Cope with Loneliness
06.20.23
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s office recently released a report titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection...
A Framework for Healing: Believe, Belong, Be
07.01.22
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
07.01.22
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...
Don’t Postpone Joy
08.02.21
Retired hospital chaplain Mary Farr was walking past a garden in Chautauqua, New York, when she saw a rock with the phrase “Don’t Postpone Joy” engraved into it and took a picture. T...
Words of God Gave Mom-to-Be Peace Through Cancer
03.04.20
At her 7-month prenatal checkup in Minneapolis, MN, in November 2018, Sarah Hanan was focused on passing her glucose screening so gestational diabetes could be crossed off her list of expectant-mom wo...
9 Ways to Support Cancer Patients (Backed by Research)
06.21.19
Have you ever struggled to offer help to a patient or family caregiver? It can be just as hard to know what is needed as it is for them to ask for help. CaringBridge partnered with a team of technolog...
Losing Mom, Finding Spirituality
06.20.19
You can never know where tragedy will lead. In my case, the tragic loss of my mother in 2015 led me to team with CaringBridge, on my way toward earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science. As the first and mo...
Kaden’s Health Journey is Everyone’s Health Journey
01.10.19
Letting loose in his battery-powered Dodge Ram pickup is freedom for 7-year-old Kaden Kruciak of Cibolo, TX. And if ever a kid deserved to feel the wind in his hair—and the dust and dirt of off-road...
Parenting Advice for Raising a Child With Congenital Heart Condition
12.19.18
When Brittany and Walt Hammond got married, they said they would sit down to dinner as a family, and pray over their food. Two toddlers and two open-heart surgeries later, the tradition remains intact...