I modeled a great deal as a teenager, but I don’t fit the mold set by the modeling industry. I am not the willow six-foot-tall blond you often see sashaying down the runway. I am 5’5″ and due to childhood illness I have been completely bald since I was nine years old. My hair loss [...]

Having Peace with Illness

When Eileen’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she had to be hospitalized for two weeks. She went from being active in her home and garden, to enduring many tests and treatments. Despite her circumstances, the 86-year-old’s attitude spoke loudly: she refused to get down and stayed positive. Related Finding peace in a troubled [...]

Faith Through Illness

Andrew, a top draft pick for the NHL was just about to get everything he even wanted when a bad case of frost bite literally stopped him in his tracks.  Flown to the hospital he was told on arrival that he had a 50/50 chance of losing his toes which would end his hockey career. [...]

New research suggests ways patients can better control their life-long conditions Landmark survey reveals five steps for success Research Triangle Park, N.C., – A landmark survey suggests that millions of Americans living with diabetes, asthma, heart disease, depression and other chronic illnesses may gain better control of their illnesses by working with their physicians to [...]

Angry, frustrated and confused, I boarded a plane for Southern California. My dear friend and mother-in-law lay in a hospital bed with the shadow of death hovering. As I sat on the plane numb and expressionless. I cried, “Lord, where are you? Can’t you see my wounded heart?” I wanted to scream instead of cry, [...]

Encourgament Or Realistic?

When your a parent nothing means more to you then the health of your child. But when you get the diagnosis that your child will forever be effected by an illness many people are left asking “why?” Often parents struggle with finding the line between encouraging them to be anything they want to be and [...]

Healthy Heart Foods Part 1 - eating better for your heart.

Wouldn’t you love to wake up on Christmas morning, find a huge, beautifully wrapped present with your name on it under the tree and open it up to discover that the brightly colored package contained none other than a bottle of clean, cool, fresh water? Wait a second… If that doesn’t sound like your Christmas [...]

Nine truths about death and dying emerged from the intensive conversations Vancouver doctor David Kuhl had with people who were terminally ill: Time changes Being told that your disease will likely result in death causes time to freeze – then change.  Linear time, which the Greeks called chronus, gives way to kairos, time noted for [...]

For 24 years, Prema Jagammatham refused to speak to her sister. Prema’s family was Hindu and belonged to the high-caste Brahmans. When her younger sister Raji committed her life to Christ, Prema and the rest of her family rejected Raji and forced her to move out. “It was a very painful experience for me,” Raji [...]