Everyone told you the hard part would be over when treatment ended. The scans were clear, the team said the words you had been waiting

Cancer treatment asks you to hand your body over. You consent to surgeries that remove parts of you, to drugs that change how you look

There is a particular kind of silence that follows the words “you have cancer.” The doctor keeps talking, and you can see their mouth moving,

When someone you care about is healing from trauma, your instinct is to fix it, to say the right thing, to make the pain stop.

Most people associate trauma with flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks. Those responses are real, but they are also the ones that get recognized. The trauma

Teens do not always have the language to tell you something is wrong. Instead, they show it through behavior changes, mood swings that seem disproportionate,