by Caitlin Bangsund | Feb 23, 2023 | Encouragement
“It’s NOT MACEY! It’s Jack!” This week Macey is “Jack.” It is both entertaining and endlessly frustrating to remember to call her the right name while getting three (feels like four) kids out the door to school in the morning. Yesterday, she told me, “I’m not...
by Caitlin Bangsund | Aug 9, 2022 | Encouragement, Uncategorized
It is hard to reduce stress when relaxing feels so hard I know I’m not the only one. There are so many pictures posted on social media about #lakelife and #summervibes. But I find myself wondering if people are as relaxed as they seem online. Like most things on the...
by Caitlin Bangsund | Jan 28, 2021 | Encouragement
Be Who You Are I hope my writing is encouraging and inspiring. But even more I’d like it to be comforting. We want the voices in our heads to feel ‘normal’ and to know that we are not alone in our fears. It is comforting to hear someone else express something you’re...
by Caitlin Bangsund | Sep 24, 2020 | Encouragement
I don’t just carry the trial and trauma of Macey’s fight in my heart. There was a day in September 2016, during active treatment, where I was able to articulate the heaviness of carrying other families’ stories in my heart too. Macey was having treatment. She...
