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Redefining Caregiving: Jennifer Levin on Supporting Millennial and Gen Z Caregivers
In her early 30s, Jennifer Levin was building the life she’d dreamed about. Living in Los Angeles and working in television, her dedication was to her career and her social life. And then her family received a diagnosis that changed everything. Her f
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A Conversation With Jordan and Anna Rathkopf
CaringBridge recently connected with Jordan and Anna Rathkopf to discuss their new book, HER2, which offers a deeply personal exploration of the Rathkopf family’s experience following Anna’s breast cancer diagnosis at age 37. Through Anna’s evocative
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The Phenom's Wife: How a Caregiver Lost and Found Herself in Her Family's Trauma
The unsparingly truthful journal of a wife & mother catapulted into a life of hope, wonder & devotion, while her husband lies comatose... After Jenna's husband Steve suffers a traumatic brain injury from a cycling accident, she emerges into a mystica
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Bryan Joas was an active 45-year-old man with a wife and two children. He had been biking and racing since he was 16. On March 8, 2016, with predicted highs in the mid-60s, Bryan rode his bike to work with the intention of taking the long way home t
Three days before Christmas 2022, Bruce Klein found himself in an emergency room, listening to a doctor explain that he had a tennis ball-sized tumor in his stomach. He had just returned from a business trip to Southeast Asia, assuming his discomfort
In this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research and stories from p
When Cris Ross and Ed Marx were diagnosed with cancer, they thought they knew what to do next. They were, after all, executives at two of the premiere hospitals in the United States—Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. But even decades of obsessing abou
A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health—the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected—to truly flourish. Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness advice is f
Trisha Kennedy has never liked roller coasters. She doesn’t like to feel out of control and is more of a kiddie ride type of person. But here she is, gasping for air while lunging side to side to the left and right, going up and down. A life-changing
As the founder of the first devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and w
Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land. Where is the infrastructure, the information, the guidance? What should you do next? In Rebel Health:
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