What Narnia Teaches Us About Care: Uncertainty, Identity, & Meaning in Complex Care

Illness drops people into territory they did not choose. The language is unfamiliar, the rules are unclear, and the system designed to help was not built to walk beside them through the confusion. This post uses C.S. Lewis's Narnia series as a lens to explore what patients and caregivers actually face — shame, fragmentation, uncertainty, identity disruption, and the search for meaning — and what changes when someone steady stays.