by Sheri Brisson | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Young people living with chronic illness face difficult challenges their peers may never know. So you’d think their classmates, teammates and others would cut ill kids some slack. Sadly, that is not the case. Study after study after study shows that chronically...
by Sheri Brisson | Mar 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Talking to family members when someone is very sick or chronically ill can be very stressful and emotionally charged. It is a common myth that a family facing a serious health crisis will become closer because of the trauma they are experiencing together. In...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Mar 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Society tends to look at children with health challenges through the lens of what they can’t do. When enough people look at your child from a deficit perspective, it can be hard to keep your child from internalizing that point of view –-your child may,...
by Jennifer Delamare | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Digging Deep to Empower Seriously Ill Children & Families Philanthropist and Brain Tumor Survivor Sheri Sobrato Brisson Brings Focus to the Socio-Emotional Needs of Young People with Health Challenges Redwood City, CA, May 14, 2014 – Today...
by Sheri Brisson | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Popular media today confirms that the time has come to better address the emotional needs of kids struggling with physical illness: take the character Elsa in Disney’s ubiquitous animation, Frozen—if ever there was a poster child for letting go of your feelings when...
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