by Sara | Oct 1, 2025 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery, Writing With A Chronic Illness
I tell my story for a living. I’m an author and a speaker, you see. And my story is a doozy: Trauma, chronic illness, loss of my home, loved ones battling suicide, and being given a month to live paint some of the broad strokes. Hope, growth, healing, and joy bring...
by Sara | Dec 17, 2024 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Your friend is struggling. She’s pouring out her heart, and she looks up at you. Tears are starting to slip out. Inwardly, you are squirming. What on earth do you say? What would be helpful? She’s in pain, and you want it to stop. What advice can you give her?...
by Sara | Nov 5, 2024 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
I paced circles on the tile as I listened to my friend Susana explain the struggles weighing her down. Cautiously, she asked me, “Have you ever experienced the same thing?” I laughed. “Oh girl! You are not alone.” And I began to share something I had told only...
by Sara | Dec 18, 2023 | Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
I was used to being the new kid, but this was untrod territory. With five moves under my belt by the time I was fifteen, I thought I’d become an expert in building quick friendships (and adopting grandparents everywhere). The library and church were go-to places to...
by Sara | Jul 3, 2023 | Guest Writers, Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Welcome, Rachel! Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you serve the chronic illness community? Hi Sara! It’s great to be here with you! I have been reading your blog for a few years now, and I have been so encouraged by your perseverance, your love for the...
by Sara | Jan 16, 2023 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges
Dear Parent, The term “parent” seems so . . . distant, so clinical. Parents are people, parents are warriors, parents are some of the people I most respect in life. I think of the parent in Mark 5. Jarius, dignified teacher, begging in the dust at Jesus’ feet. His...
