Caregiving often feels like living on an emotional seesaw, with its constant highs and lows. The small victories, like a shared smile or a peaceful moment, can lift you up. But the lows? They can leave you feeling completely paralyzed.

On those low days, the weight of worry, exhaustion, and fear is...

The CARE Model is a powerful, structured approach designed to deepen emotional intimacy, improve communication, and build resilience between brain cancer patients and their partners. Rooted in relational health coaching principles, the CARE Model focuses on fostering understanding, appreciation, and...

My Dear Wormwood,

I understand your Patient is supporting his wife through a particularly difficult trial—a rare and dreadful brain cancer. This sort of ordeal is fertile ground for our purposes, if managed correctly, though I must caution you against allowing too much overt suffering. While physic...

As a caregiver or patient dealing with the complexities of brain cancer, capturing every detail from oncology appointments is crucial. These sessions are often fast-paced and filled with critical information that can be hard to remember. Otter.ai, an AI-powered transcription tool, can help you make ...

The hardest part of my faith is to bring the eternal promises of faith into my present circumstances.  This is a blog to remind myself how although its the hardest thing to do when Tracy's health tends to be my deepest desire.

1. Acknowledge the Tension

The hardest part of faith is often reconc...

Caregiving for a loved one with brain cancer is unlike any other journey. It’s an all-consuming experience that affects you physically, emotionally, and, perhaps most surprisingly, cognitively. As someone living through this, I often find myself feeling disoriented, forgetful, and mentally fatigued—...

Caring for someone with a brain-related condition, whether it’s a cognitive decline, injury, or progressive illness like glioblastoma, can feel like a constant assault on your mental well-being. Many caregivers describe the experience as a “mind-f*ck,” and it’s not hard to see why. Watching someone ...

When my wife Tracy was diagnosed with glioblastoma, our lives were completely shattered. The pain and suffering we went through were overwhelming, and there were moments when it felt like there was no way forward. But in the midst of that devastation, I found something unexpected: a deeper purpose. ...