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 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 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...
by Matt Reffold | May 8, 2025 | Education
By: Matthew Reffold In our hyperconnected world, social media serves as both a window to the world and a faucet of distressing content. Graphic news, violent videos, and traumatic stories are constantly accessible on our phones at any moment, often leaving us...
