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Time Under Constraint
Caregiving reshapes how time is lived. It’s measured less by progress and more by attention, return, and presence.

Michele Russell
Jan 144 min read


Caregiver Self-Care: Capacity, Safety, and the Reality We Live In
For caregivers, self-care isn’t indulgence or escape. It’s about capacity. It’s staying steady under real responsibility.

Michele Russell
Jan 54 min read


How We Travel: Simple, Accessible, and Open to What Life Presents
A practical look at how we travel, keep things simple, accessible, and flexible as a mother and adult son navigating disability together

Michele Russell
Dec 17, 20255 min read


Why We Adventure: Finding Ourselves After Everything Changes
Adventures helped us step out of survival mode and back into life, rediscovering who we were becoming after Jonny’s accident.

Michele Russell
Nov 25, 20253 min read


Seeing Each Other Fully: The Courage to Belong.
What becomes possible if we stop looking away and start really seeing what’s right in front of us?

Michele Russell
Nov 11, 20256 min read


Is It Patience or Something More?
A reflection on caregiving, faith, and daily life with Jonny. Where patience grows into grace and love keeps showing up.

Michele Russell
Oct 26, 20254 min read


The Little Things That Aren’t Little
Ordinary moments carry more meaning than we often realize.

Michele Russell
Oct 7, 20252 min read


When Disability Is Seen as a Problem to Fix: Prayer, Presence, and Acceptance
Disability isn’t a problem to solve. This post reflects on acceptance, belonging, and supporting life as it is.

Michele Russell
Sep 20, 20253 min read


Finding My Inner Lion: Claiming Courage and Speaking the Truth I’ve Lived
Finding my inner lion: learning to speak words so true and resonant they carry like a roar, even when spoken quietly.

Michele Russell
Sep 9, 20254 min read


Living With Grief That Doesn’t End: Love, Caregiving, and Finding Meaning After TBI
Some grief never ends. I grieve my son as he was, love him as he is, and live in the space where loss, love, sorrow and beauty do coexist.

Michele Russell
Sep 3, 20254 min read


Equine Therapy is both Therapeutic and Fun!!
Jonny's companion During the first years of Jonny’s recovery journey while working with traditional physical therapy one of his...

Michele Russell
Oct 25, 20234 min read

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