Chad: Find Your Motivation
09.13.17
A series of pictures of Chad Methum of New Hope, MN, taken in the year following Chad’s liver transplant in 2015, creates a record of what healing looks like—on the outside. In every photo taken b...
How We Heal
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Bryan: Don’t Dwell on Things You Can’t Change
09.13.17
Bryan Joas of Eagan, MN, doesn’t think much about the hit-and-run driver who slammed into his bike from behind, just before sunset on March 8, 2016, sending him to the hospital for 90 days, with a b...
Nicole: Take the Time You Need to Heal
09.13.17
Temporarily turning over “care and feeding” of her only child to his grandparents helped heal Nicole Wills of Cramerton, NC, after complications from pulmonary fibrosis catapulted her toward a dou...
Claire: Healing is More Than a Band-Aid
09.13.17
After a horrific car accident on the way to spring break in Florida, the path to healing for the Schwab family of Alexandria, VA, looks somewhat like the x-ray of 10-year-old Teddy’s skull after he ...
Louie: Writing Helps Me Process What is Happening
09.13.17
Louie and Nancy Grams of Eagan, MN, have been married for 46 years. For most of those 46 years, Louie has been chronically ill, with countless MRI and CT scans, hundreds of invasive procedures, and 35...
Gavin: If You Believe It, You Can Do It
09.13.17
Eleven-year-old Gavin Pierson of Ramsey, MN, has been fighting “Joe Bully” since he was 5. That’s what he has named his rare brain tumor, a growing mature teratoma, because of the way it breaks ...
Kat: Random Acts of Kindness Make It a Good Day
09.13.17
The words of Kat Schilling of Eau Claire, WI, pierce the heart: “As much as I don’t like the fact that I lost a child, it is exactly that … a fact. I cannot change it, no matter how hard I w...
Molly: You Need Someone to Not Forget About You
09.13.17
Molly Sturgis of Chaska, MN, needs neither ruby slippers nor Glinda the Good Witch to know there’s no place like home. Her son, Telford, better known as Telly, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia...
Erica: You Can Choose How You Look At Tragedy
09.13.17
Homemade slime has helped make whole again the Bratland family of Shoreview, MN, after 4-year-old Trip suffered devastating injuries in a car crash in April 2013, on the way to preschool. Jars of the ...
How We Heal: A Short Film
09.13.17
Supporters like you have long shared that using CaringBridge has been healing. But how do we define healing? How do we share our collective knowledge of it? To delve into this complex issue, we set ou...