The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 078: Using Post-Traumatic Growth to Help Sick Children and Their Families

At any given time there are countless children spending extended periods of time in hospitals battling serious illnesses. For these children and their loved ones, this can be an incredibly draining, debilitating, isolating experience, but it doesn't have to be. My special guest, colleague, and friend, Lisa Buksbaum, founded Soaring Words, a non-profit whose mission is "to inspire ill children and their families to take active roles in self-healing. Soaringwords is unique as it is the only organization to motivate ill children and families to "pay it forward" to help others. Studies show that when a child does something kind for another child it accelerates transformative healing." Lisa talks about her own journey, and we discuss post-traumatic growth in the context of the tragedies that Lisa has experienced and how they informed her uncovering of her own purpose, and how that led to her forming Soaringwords. You can learn more about and follow Soaringwords on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Soaringwords), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/Soaringwords), Twitter (https://twitter.com/soaringwords), and Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/soaringwords). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!