by Amy Pickett-Williams | Mar 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
This March, I turn 50.Fifty years in this body. A body that has carried pregnancies and miscarriages, and parenting three children, one of which had a rough start with serious medical challenges, the loss of my beloved father, a near-fatal hiking accident, a cancer...
by Kelsey Casto | Feb 27, 2026 | Charity, Education, Health, Helping, Volunteer
My philosophy of social work has developed over time, ever changing as I have changed and grown through my lived experiences. At this stage of my life, there is so much behind me to draw on, reflect on, and learn from, and the older I have gotten, the better able I...
by Kelsey Casto | Feb 2, 2026 | Burnout, Education, Grief & Loss Stories, Health, Helping
What does it mean to be a caregiver? Many associate the concept with helping professions, such as nurses, CNAs and other such staff at retirement homes, hospitals, and childcare centers. While it is true that caregiving does entail providing care for children...
by LIGHT Movement Team | Jan 24, 2026 | A Night to Illuminate Grief, Community Events, Events
What is A Night to Illuminate Grief? Each year on the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, we gather to illuminate grief with love, connection, and remembrance. Since its inception in 2023, A Night to Illuminate Grief has been...
by Anonymous Member of LIGHT Community | Oct 20, 2025 | Betrayal Trauma, Grief & Loss Stories
Healing begins when the body is finally heard. When the Ground Gives Way When I discovered my partner’s affair, the world went silent. My heart pounded, my vision blurred, and my hands trembled, as if my body knew what my mind could not yet accept. In that single...
by Amy Pickett-Williams | Sep 11, 2025 | Global Grief, Helping
Trauma always carries grief. Left untended, grief can harden, grow into hate, and for some, break into violence.On 9/10, our country experienced two tragedies that shook us to our core. In Evergreen, Colorado, a student opened fire at Evergreen High School, injuring...
by Kelsey Casto | Sep 6, 2025 | Education, Health
When my experience in motherhood began in the NICU, I learned a whole new (to me) dimension of active trauma, and the whiplash sensation of both sitting with the trauma, the guilt borne of wondering what I might have done differently to have achieved a different...
by Amy Pickett-Williams | Aug 23, 2025 | Education, Helping
A closer look at LIGHT’s approach to grief When Lois Tonkin first described her Growing Around Grief model in the late 1990s, she wasn’t offering a neat solution to the pain of loss. She was telling the truth. Her insight was deceptively simple: grief does not...
by LIGHT Movement Team | Aug 22, 2025 | APA 2025, Conference
LIGHT exhibits at the APA convention for the first time This August, Denver welcomed the American Psychological Association (APA) National Convention, filling the city with thousands of scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students from around the...
by Amy Pickett-Williams | May 15, 2025 | Education, Health
By: Amy Pickett-Williams, LCSW, RYT, Founder of LIGHT Movement Last week, I walked out of a doctor’s office holding news I didn’t expect. After months of escalating nerve pain and weakness, I was told I will need back surgery due to a pinched nerve. But that wasn’t...
