Even Sick Kids Can Be Bullied

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...

Tackling Hard Conversations

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...

Feeling Different and Letting It Go

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...