Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Gail Muller spent 15 years in chronic pain. After countless specialists failed to find an answer or even a diagnosis, she discovered a pioneering modality in Lake Como, Italy—one used by elite athletes like David Beckham to aid in career longevity.... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Poet, philosopher and author Mark Nepo reflects on how being diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in his 30s profoundly shaped his life, work, and understanding of what it means to be fully alive. Nearly four decades after surviving cancer, Mark sh... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues and Ethical Dilemmas
Sandeep Jauhar, MD, author of My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's, describes his father's mental deterioration due to dementia and ultimate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Jauhar and his siblings were getting unmistakabl... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Katherine Standefer, author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, went into cardiac arrest at the age of 24 and her whole life changed.
Her sister had recently been diagnosed with a genetic heart issue called Long... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Astrid Baumgardner, author of Creative Success Now, describes how in 2007, she had a small outpatient procedure in a doctor's office and 36 hours later, she almost died. She had developed sepsis, a blood infection that has a more than 50% mortality r... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Brad Smith has experienced more than one bout of cancer, but was fortunate to have discovered it at all. Pain around his eye took him to the emergency room where the doctors didn't find anything, but suggested he go to his primary care physician and ... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Michaela Haas, author of Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science of Cultivating Resilience, tells her story of traveling and living in Asia in her early twenties, becoming very ill at 26, and being bedridden for eight months. She describes her mind and... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Tanya Frank, author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, describes the day in 2009 when her son Zach, a Merit Scholar at UCLA, came home and began acting uncharacteristically suspicious, fearful and distressed. After not sleeping or ea... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Anthony Roth Costanzo, opera singer, performer and producer, tells his story of growing through thyroid cancer after receiving a diagnosis when he was in his 20s and in graduate school.
He knew he had to get his thyroid removed quickly. Since t... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Yvonne Shortt has had Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) all her life, but was not diagnosed until she was in her 30s. The condition is hereditary. Since no one in her family had it, she simply adapted to her vision differences, including night blindness as... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Donald Antrim, author of One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, describes growing through suicidal illness by going to the hospital and staying. When nothing else worked, and after a call from the author David Foster Wallace, he cons... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness
Alexandra Capellini was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) when she was 7 and had her right leg amputated above-the-knee. She describes growing through it with the help of her family, her team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and t... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness and Loss & Grief
Joelle Wright-Terry, retired Detroit police officer and hospice chaplain, tells her story of surviving COVID and becoming a COVID widow. She grew through it by the grace of God. She learned how to trust in God, survive, and take ov... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness Caryn Anthony, author of the blog, Any Way the Wind Blows, describes caring for and working with her young adult son at every stage of his illness — when it was a chronic condition, a serious illness and finally in hospice care. She... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard, author of The Blink of an Eye, describes growing through a deadly bout of bacterial meningitis with the help of excellent doctors, her devoted family, and good luck. Her message is that every day counts, be there... Read More »
Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness Devon Carrow, creator of The Love Spreader, on growing through Alopecia with daily patience, by trying different things to deal with hair loss, and by connecting with others online.
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Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness Steve Garvey, former band member of the 70s punk rock group Buzzcocks, on growing through cancer by trusting your doctors and relying on family and friends.
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Grow Through It: Health Issues & Illness Victoria, a mental health advocate, talks about growing through mental illness by asking for help, sharing her experience with others, and with therapy and medication.
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